Measures to safeguard children’s rights

Question for written answer  E-001932/2021
to the Commission
Rule 138
Roman Haider (ID), Georg Mayer (ID), Harald Vilimsky (ID)

On 24 March 2021 the Commission adopted the first comprehensive EU Strategy on the Rights of the Child and a proposal to establish a European Child Guarantee. The Commission is proposing a series of measures, from producing child-friendly legal texts to consultations with children in the context of the Conference on the Future of Europe and the implementation of the Climate Pact and the Green Deal[1].

• 1.On what legal basis are the current legal texts deemed to be not ‘child-friendly legal texts’?
• 2.Does the Commission have access to studies showing that ‘child-friendly legal texts’ safeguard children’s rights better than legal texts until now have done?

• [1] https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/IP_21_1226