UNITED NATIONS

CRC

Convention on the Rights of the Child

Distr.GENERAL

CRC/C/OPSA/AND/Q/12 November 2005

ENGLISHOriginal: FRENCH

COMMITTEE ON THE RIGHTS OF THE CHILDForty-first session9-27 January 2006

Optional Protocol to the Convention on the sale of children, child prostitution and child pornography: List of issues to be taken up in connection with the consideration of the report of Andorra (CRC/C/OPSA/AND/1)

1.Please provide information on how the new Criminal Code covers crimes and offences related to trafficking in body organs, particularly those of children, and the sanctions incurred by persons who commit such crimes and offences and those who maintain networks of this kind;

2.Please specify whether, in referring to sex crimes, the new Criminal Code uses neutral terminology, regardless of the gender of the victim;

3.Please provide information on the competence of Andorra’s courts with regard to crimes committed abroad by nationals in violation of articles of the Protocol and the sanctions incurred by its nationals.

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