Assessment of age and maturity Sample Clauses

Assessment of age and maturity. In the asylum context, the age of the child is not always apparent, particularly when the child is unaccompanied or separated. The Committee RC recommends that age assessment be conducted as part of the prioritized identification of a child as separated or unaccompanied. However, the Committee warns that age assessment: […] should not only take into account the physical appearance of the individual, but also his or her psychological maturity. Moreover, the assessment must be conducted in a scientific, safe, child and gender-sensitive and fair manner, avoiding any risk of violation of the physical integrity of the child; giving due respect to human dignity; and, in the event of remaining uncertainty, should accord the individual the benefit of the doubt such that if there is a possibility that the indi- vidual is a child, she or he should be treated as such.50 Indeed, there is a large amount of ‘soft law’ guidance and literature on the proper conduct and limits of age assessment.51 However, even where the age of the child can be established with a reason- able degree of accuracy, chronological age is not the only measure of the weight to be given to the views of the child: maturity is equally significant. Although the concept of maturity is difficult to define, useful guidance is supplied by Article 5 CRC which acknowledges the need for parental direction and guidance in the exercise by the child of his/her convention rights but links 49 Emphasis added. See also Council of Europe Guidelines 2010, supra n. 12, paras. 14 and 15 on the training of professionals working with and for children. 50 Committee RC, General Comment No. 6, supra n. 39, para. 31(i).
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Assessment of age and maturity. The APD envisages the use of medical examinations to determine the age of unaccompanied minors. Thus, Article 17 (Guarantees for unaccompanied minors) provides in paragraph 5: Member States may use medical examinations to determine the age of unaccompan- ied minors within the framework of the examination of an application for asylum. In cases where medical examinations are used, Member States shall ensure that:
Assessment of age and maturity. It was seen that Article 17(5) APD on medical examinations for age assessment is problematic as a method of evaluating the age and maturity of the child. Are any improvements envisaged in the proposed recast?

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