Hague Protection of Adults Convention

The Hague Protection of Adults Convention, formally the Convention on the International Protection of Adults, is a convention concluded by the Hague Conference on Private International Law in 2000.[1] The convention entered into force in 2009 and currently applies in ten states.[2] The convention is aimed at the protection of vulnerable adults, persons who are "by reason of an impairment or insufficiency of their personal faculties, are not in a position to protect their interests". The convention

  • determines which courts have jurisdiction to take protection measures
  • determines which law is to be applied in the circumstances; and who may be a vulnerable person
  • establishes a system of central authorities which should cooperate, locate vulnerable adults and give information on the status of vulnerable persons to other authorities.

Hague Protection of Adults Convention
  Party
  Signatory that did not ratify
Signed13 January 2000
LocationThe Hague, The Netherlands
Effective1 January 2009
ConditionRatification by 3 states[1]
Signatories17[2]
Parties10[2]
DepositaryMinistry of Foreign Affairs (Netherlands)[1]
LanguagesEnglish and French[1]

Parties

As of March 2018, the convention applies in ten states.

StateSignatureRatification/accessionEntry into forceTerritorial application
 Austria10 July 20139 October 20131 February 2014
 Belgium6 February 2017
 Cyprus1 April 2009
 Czech Republic1 April 200918 April 20121 August 2012
 Estonia13 December 20101 March 2011
 Finland18 September 200819 November 20101 March 2011
 France13 July 200118 September 20081 January 2009
 Germany22 December 20033 April 20071 January 2009
 Greece18 September 2008
 Ireland18 September 2008
 Italy31 October 2008
 Latvia15 December 201624 November 20171 March 2018
 Luxembourg18 September 2008
 Monaco4 March 20164 March 20161 December 2016
 Netherlands13 January 2000
 Poland18 September 2008
 Scotland1 April 20035 November 20031 January 2009UK ratified on behalf of Scotland
  Switzerland3 April 200727 March 20091 July 2009

References
  1. "35: Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults". HCCH. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
  2. "Convention on the international protection of adults, Treaty data". Treaty Database of the Netherlands. Retrieved 8 February 2017.
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