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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I - Special Focus: The Hague Convention of 23 November 2007 on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance and its Protocol on the Law Applicable to Maintenance Obligations
General Perspectives
María Kurucz - Perspective from the Chair of Commission I
William Duncan - General introduction to the Convention
Philippe Lortie - The development of medium and technology neutral international treaties in support of Post-Convention information technology systems - The 2007 Convention and Protocol
Andrea Bonomi - Presentation of the Protocol
Judge Jan Doogue - Perspective from the Chair of the Drafting Committee
Katja Lenzing - Implementation of the Convention in the EU and its relation to the future EU Regulation
Mary Helen Carlson - Plans for the implementation of the Convention in the USA
Boni Moraes Soares - The implementation of the Convention in Brazil
Tracy Morrow - Implementation issues which confront the child support systems operating in Canada
Ignacio Goicoechea - The role of the Latin American States in the negotiating process
Ann Barkley, Danièle Ménard - The Country Profile - A new information source
Paul Beaumont - Procedure on an application for recognition and enforcement in the Convention
Margot Bean, Elizabeth Matheson - Comments from the United States of America on Effective Access to Services
Alexander R. Markus, Sandra John - The treatment of maintenance arrangements under the Convention
Next steps regarding the new Convention on the International Recovery of Child Support and Other Forms of Family Maintenance
William Duncan and Philippe Lortie - Introduction to the 2009 meeting of the Special Commission
Sandrine Alexandre - Introduction to the future Implementation Guide and implementation issues
Jennifer Degeling and Alegría Borrás - The Explanatory Report as the Offi cial Aid to Interpretation of the Convention
II - Judicial Communications
Judge Evelyn Marlene Peralta - Judicial communications and speed in return proceedings
III - Case Comments and perspectives
Judge Jónas Jóhannsson - Recent developments from the Supreme Court of Iceland regarding the 1980 Convention on International Child Abduction
Judge Graciela Tagle, Julia Rossi (Argentina) - International Adoption and the Best Interest of the Child
IV - International Child Protection Conferences and Seminars
V - Hague Conference Update
VI - Personal Notes