Fighting the phenomenon of illegal adoptions and the associated disappearance of babies; standardising the rules on international adoption at least across the 47 member states of the Council of Europe. This is the position taken by the Parliamentary Assembly of the CoE, which discussed the report of the Swiss MEP Ruth-Gaby Vermot-Mangold. Who rejects the concept of "the entitlement to a child": "The purpose of international adoption she states is to enable children to find a family, in the respect of their rights, not to fulfil the parents’ wish to have a child at all costs". So the Assembly unanimously voted on a document, which, through a revision of the 1993 The Hague Convention, invites them to standardise their national legal systems, to be more flexible in this area, but "always in the respect of children’s rights". The PACE recalls that "the lack of rules about registrations" (in some countries, the parents do not have to register a child’ birth) "and the lack of rigour have made for the development of parallel circuits and the trade of children". The Assembly invited those States that have not done it yet "to amend their family and criminal laws, in order to fight the trade of children and illegal adoptions".
