This is Dr Marica Pirosikova’scontribution to the Round Table seminar hosted at the EU Parliament on 02 June 2015:

Dear Mr Chairman,

I am grateful for your initiative in organising this important event.

Dear Honourable Members of the European Parliament, dear Ladies and Gentlemen,

From my point of view there are many Convention issues rising from the cases of children removal from their biological family and I would like to share with you our experience in the Slovak Republic.

Over the last three years I have been in touch with a certain number of cases as a result of Slovak parents contacting me and requesting help. On the 3^rd of August 2012, after having studied the case files thoroughly, I publicly expressed serious concerns over cases of adopting children from their living biological parents without relevant reasons (with regards to the guarantees of Article 6 and 8 of…