The international child abduction regime in the Brussels II Ter Regulation and its main novelties

towards a better protection of the best interests of the child

Abstract

This article analyses the new developments introduced in the Brussels II ter Regulation on international child abduction. The EU legislator, aware of the complexity and problematism that the application of the Brussels IIa Regulation has entailed in the matter, has tried to improve and refine the response provided in the new 2019 text, both from the structural and substantial point of view. Predictably, resulting in a better protection of the bests interests of the children involved in these proceedings.