Several Conceptual Aspects Regarding International Adoption

Abstract

Abstract Recently, international adoption has been in the spotlight of the legislator, which has established an increasingly favourable legal framework for approving this type of adoption, the specific procedures being improved, simplified and made more accessible. Therefore, we consider it appropriate to analyse in detail the notion of international adoption, as regulated in the national law, but also in international law, by reference to some jurisprudential references. In accordance with Convention on Protection of Children and Cooperation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption, unlike internal adoption, international adoption involves the participation of foreign and national organizations, whose involvement is carefully and even restrictively regulated by the national legislator. The present study proposes a description of the organizations involved mainly in international adoption, with reference to the provisions of GEO no. 121/2021 on the establishment of measures at the level of the central public administration and for the amendment and completion of some normative acts, which provides for the restructuring of the National Authority for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Children and Adoptions.