Findings

Preliminary Explorations

The document defines the scope of the project, including all the relevant EU and international instruments. Moreover, it presents an overview of the most important aspects concerning the effective and coherent (or lack thereof) application of the listed instruments.

Annotated Index

The Annotated Index constitutes a detailed structure for drafting the Country Reports. It contains the guidelines to be followed and the questions that the National Academic Researchers (NARs) have to pose to the national experts.

National Reports

The National Reports reply to the questions of the Annotated Index and contain a detailed overview of the national frameworks and practices.

Overarching Analysis

The Overarching Analysis constitutes the comparative analysis of the four National Reports, and includes the findings of the project.

Recommendations

The Recommendations summarise the project’s key findings and propose changes to laws and practices at both the EU and national levels.

Good Practices

The Research Team has developed a set of good practices, i.e. a working method that has proven to yield good results—or is expected to do so—and is relatively easy to implement, in that it does not require changes to the European or national legal framework.