| La tutela dei diritti dei minori nell’ordinamento comunitario |
| Fascicolo 2007-1 |
| Scritto da Novi Criseide |
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Sommario 1. Introduzione: il lungo cammino verso l’affermazione di diritti per i minori. – 2. La crescente rilevanza dei minori nel contesto comunitario. – 3. La disciplina comunitaria diretta ad offrire una specifica protezione ai minori consumatori, fruitori di servizi e lavoratori. – 4. La libera circolazione e i diritti dei figli dei lavoratori migranti. – 5. I diritti legati alla cittadinanza europea. – 6. Il riconoscimento esplicito di diritti per i minori nella Carta dei diritti fondamentali dell’Unione europea. – 7. L’applicazione dei diritti attraverso la strategia europea sui diritti dei minori. – 8. Conclusioni.
Abstract The European Union legislation on children’s rights is quite recent. In the 1970s and 1980s the community’s provisions concerned minors only as consumers, users of services, workers and young family members of migrant workers. The situation changed with the Maastricht Treaty that recognised that European citizenship confers a number of specific rights. In 2004, the Court of justice, in the Zhu case, established that European citizenship is not a status granted depending on the attainment of a minimum age. As a consequence, children are beneficiaries of the related rights. Moreover, the European Union Charter of Fundamental Rights, adopted in December 2000, also contains provisions about children’s rights. More recently, the Commission produced a communication denominated Towards an EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child that is of utmost relevance. The aim of the communication is to develop a European strategy to promote and safeguard children’s rights in all their internal and external actions. Through the mainstreaming process, it also intends to improve consistency and effectiveness of children’s protection. |