FAMIMOVE’s general objective is to contribute to the effective and coherent application of the EU acquis in the field of international
family law, in particular by ensuring more awareness of international child protection instruments applicable to migrant children. To
this end, the project seeks to implement the recommendations of the studies published in June 2017 by the European Parliament’s
Committee on Legal Affairs (prepared by this proposal’s core team) against the current framework of the Brussels IIter and other main
instruments of cross-border cooperation in in family law areas.
In particular, the project will seek to collect comparative empirical data in seven MSs and will put in place transnational pilot projects
relating to key issues of international child protection (including the portability of child protection arrangements such as kafala, the
legal treatment of child marriage, etc.). The overall goal is to ensureFAMIMOVE’s general objective is to contribute to the effective
and coherent application of the EU acquis in the field of international family law, in particular by ensuring more awareness of
international child protection instruments applicable to migrant children.