CRC/C/FIN/CO/4
(e)
Health Care Act (1326/2010) in 2010;
(f)
Amendments to the Basic Education Act in 2010;
(g)
Decree on maternity and child health services, schools and student health
care and preventive oral health care for children and young people (380/2009) in 2009 and
amendments thereto (338/2011) in 2011.
4.
The Committee also welcomes the ratification of /accession to international treaties,
including:
(a)
Convention on Jurisdiction, Applicable Law, Recognition, Enforcement and
Co-operation in respect of Parental Responsibility and Measures for the Protection of
Children in 2010;
(b)
1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness in 2008;
(c)
Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially
Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational
Organized Crime, in 2006;
(d)
5.
Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime in 2007.
The Committee also welcomes the adoption of policies and programmes, including:
(a)
National Action Plan to reduce corporal punishment of children for the
period of 2010-2015;
(b)
(c)
2008-2011;
(d)
Development Programme for Child and Youth Policy 2007-2011;
National Development Programme for Social Welfare and Health Care for
National Policy on Roma in 2009.
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 notes with concern that various concerns and recommendations
made upon consideration of the State party’s third periodic report (CRC/C/15/Add.272) of
2005 have been insufficiently addressed. The Committee notes that those concerns and
recommendations are reiterated in the present concluding observations.
7.
The Committee urges the State party to take all necessary measures to address
the recommendations contained in the concluding observations on the third periodic
report that have not been sufficiently implemented, including those related to
discrimination against children from ethnic minorities and immigrant children,
respect for the views of the child, the rights of asylum-seeking children,
deinstitutionalization of children and adolescent health.
Legislation
8.
The Committee notes the legislative actions undertaken by the State party aimed at
strengthening the constitutional, legal and normative framework related to the
implementation of the Convention, but remains concerned at the lack of a consolidated
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