Text. Text of the Convention, adopted on 13 January 2000 – Translations – Outline of the Convention.

Annex. Annex to the Convention, Recommendation of 1999 Adopted by the Special Commission of a Diplomatic Character on the Protection of Adults.

Explanatory Report. Paul Lagarde, Protection of Adults, Explanatory Report. Proceedings of the Special Commission of Diplomatic Character (1999), New and Revised Edition, The Hague, Netherlands, 2017.

Status. Central Authorities – Contracting parties

Other relevant HCCH documents.

• M. Groff, Globalisation and the protection of vulnerable adults: solutions offered by the Hague 2000 Convention, 2014;
• Conclusions and Recommendations of the EC-HCCH Joint Conference on the Cross-border Protection of Vulnerable Adults, Brussels, 5-7 December 2018;
• Contracting States Responses to the Questionnaire to assess the need to convene possible meeting of the Special Commission in 2022 to review the practical operation of the Convention of 13 January 2000 on the International Protection of Adults, 17 December 2019;
• Contracting States Responses to the Questionnaire on the practical operation of the HCCH 2000 Protection of Adults Convention, 2020;
• Draft Implementation Checklist under the HCCH Protection of Adults Convention, Prel. Doc. No. 3 of September 2020;
• S. E. Rolland and A. Ruck Keene, Study commissioned by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Interpreting the 2000 Hague Convention on the International Protection of Adults Consistently with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 3 June 2021;
• Joint statement by the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities, Gerard Quinn, and the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons, Claudia Mahler, Toward Greater Coherence of International Law: Reflections on the Hague Convention (2000) on the International Protection of Adults, 8 July 2021.