CRC/C/DNK/CO/4 (b) The Act on Parental Responsibility, which entered into force in October 2007; (c) The Care Placement Reform Act No. 1442 of 22 December 2004, which entered into force on 1 January 2006 and aims to improve standards of care for children in alternative care settings. 5. The Committee welcomes the ratification of the following human rights instruments: (a) Council of Europe Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse, in November 2009; (b) Protocol Against the Smuggling of Migrants by Land, Sea and Air, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime, 2000, in December 2006; (c) Additional Protocol to the Convention on Cybercrime, concerning the criminalisation of acts of a racist and xenophobic nature committed through computer systems, 2003, in September 2005. III. Main areas of concern and recommendations A. General measures of implementation (arts. 4, 42 and 44, para. 6 of the Convention) The Committee’s previous recommendations 6. The Committee welcomes efforts by the State party to implement the concluding observations of the Committee adopted in September 2005 (CRC/C/DNK/CO/3) following the consideration of the third periodic report of the State party. Nevertheless, the Committee regrets that some of its concerns and recommendations have been insufficiently or not addressed. 7. The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address those recommendations from the concluding observations on the third report that have not yet been implemented or sufficiently implemented, including those related to legislation, coordination, national plan of action, dissemination, data collection and alternative care. Reservations 8. While noting that the State party has indicated that only a small number of cases could be affected by the continuation of the State party’s reservation to article 40, paragraph 2 (b), of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Committee remains concerned at the maintenance of this reservation which, in breach of the right to a fair trial, limits the right to appeal for children who have been sentenced for minor offences. 9. In the light of the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action adopted at the World Conference on Human Rights in 1993 (A/CONF.157/23), the Committee recommends that the State party consider withdrawing the reservation made to article 40, paragraph 2 (b), of the Convention. Status of the Convention 10. While noting that the Convention may be invoked and applied by the courts and administrative authorities, the Committee notes with concern that the Convention is referred to only in a limited number of cases and that the application of the Convention by 2