The Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse provides for the establishment of a Committee of the Parties to monitor its implementation. The systematic monitoring of the Convention will be one of its major strengths.

Please find below more information on the establishment of the Committee of the Parties, as described in the Convention:

Monitoring mechanism

The Lanzarote Committee (i.e. the Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse) is the body established to monitor whether Parties effectively implement the Lanzarote Convention.

Composed of both present and potential representatives of the Parties to the Convention, the Committee evaluates the situation on the protection of children against sexual violence at national level on the basis of the information which has been provided by the national authorities and other sources in their replies to both a General Overview Questionnaire and  Thematic Questionnaire.

All replies to both questionnaires can be found online. They are categorised by State, other stakeholders and by question.

The Committee is also mandated to facilitate the collection, analysis and exchange of information, experience and good practices to improve capacity to prevent and combat sexual exploitation and sexual abuse of children. In this regard, the Committee organises capacity building activities where exchanges of information but also hearings on specific challenges raised by the implementation of the Convention will be held.

Composition of the Lanzarote Committee

The composition of the Lanzarote Committee is governed by Rule 2 of its Rules of Procedure

• Bureau Members
• Committee Members
• Participants
• Observers

• Response by the Lanzarote Committee to the European Commission’s open call for comments on the forthcoming EU Strategy for a more effective fight against child sexual abuse
• Statement by the Lanzarote Committee Chairperson and Vice-Chairperson on stepping up protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse in times of the COVID-19 pandemic
• Input by the Bureau of the Lanzarote Committee to respond to the call made by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale and Sexual Exploitation of Children with regard to her report “Looking back, looking forward”
• Declaration on protecting children in out-of-home care from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
• Opinion on child sexually suggestive or explicit images and/or videos generated, shared and received by children
• Declaration on protecting migrant and refugee children against sexual exploitation and sexual abuse
• 2nd implementation report - Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The strategies
• Special report further to a visit of a delegation of the Lanzarote Committee to transit zones at the Serbian/Hungarian border (5-7 July 2017)
• Interpretative Opinion on the applicability of the Lanzarote Convention to sexual offences against children facilitated through the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs)
• Special report "Protecting children affected by the refugee crisis from sexual exploitation and sexual abuse"
• Declaration adopted on 16 June 2016 on web addresses advertising child sexual abuse material or images or any other offences established in accordance with the Lanzarote Convention
• 1st implementation report - Protection of children against sexual abuse in the circle of trust: The framework
• Opinion on Article 23 of the Lanzarote Convention - Solicitation of children for sexual purposes through information and communication technologies (Grooming)

• 6th activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 19 October 2019 - 30 June 2021)
• 5th activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 22 June 2018 - 18 October 2019)
• 4th activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 13 May 2017 - 22 June 2018
• 3rd activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 18 March 2016 - 12 May 2017)
• 2nd activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 12 September 2014 - 17 March 2016) 
• 1st activity report of the Lanzarote Committee
  (covering the period 20 September 2011 - 11 September 2014)

34th meeting
Virtual meeting, 4-7 October 2021

33rd meeting
Virtual meeting, 21-22 September 2021

32nd meeting
Virtual meeting, 28-30 June 2021

31st meeting
Virtual meeting, 29 March - 1st April 2021

30th meeting
Virtual meeting, 7-10 December 2020

29th meeting
Virtual meeting, 23 November 2020

28th meeting
Virtual meeting, 21-25 September 2020

27th meeting
Virtual meeting, 15-17 June 2020

26th meeting (cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic)
Strasbourg, 10-12 March 2020

25th meeting
Nicosia, 15-18 October 2019

24th meeting
Strasbourg, 4-6 June 2019

23rd meeting
Strasbourg, 5-7 March 2019

22nd meeting
The Hague, 7-9 November 2018

21st meeting
Strasbourg, 20-22 June 2018

20th meeting
Strasbourg, 29-31 January 2018

19th meeting
Strasbourg, 25-27 October 2017

18th meeting
Strasbourg, 10-12 May 2017

17th meeting
Strasbourg, 1-3 March 2017

16th meeting
Lyon, 23-25 November 2016

15th meeting
Strasbourg, 14-17 June 2016

14th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-17 March 2016

13th meeting
Strasbourg, 1-4 December 2015

12th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-17 June 2015

11th meeting
The Hague, 17-19 March 2015

10th meeting
Strasbourg, 2-4 December 2014

9th meeting
Strasbourg, 9-11 September 2014

8th meeting
Strasbourg, 8-10 April 2014

7th meeting
Madrid, 9 December 2013

6th meeting
Strasbourg, 14-15 October 2013

5th meeting
Strasbourg, 15-16 May 2013

4th meeting
Strasbourg, 21-22 March 2013

3rd meeting
Strasbourg, 15-16 October 2012

2nd meeting
Strasbourg, 29-30 March 2012

1st meeting
Strasbourg, 20-21 September 2011