Martina Drventić

• PhD
• Senior Assistant (Postdoc) at University of Osijek

The new ECtHR decision in the case of Z. v. Croatia suggests that the rule of parental responsibility acquired ex lege is not always easy to implement in child abduction cases. The case primarily raised the question of determining whether the removal or retention of the child is wrongful in situations when the unmarried left-behind father does not...

Private international law (PIL) per se deals with private law protection in cross-border relations. Numerous issues affected by PIL dictate consideration of a holistic approach, both in theoretical and practical terms. Human rights protection, entailing the fight against gender-based discrimination, is no exception. Moreover, abundant cross-border...

The aim of the training is to train judges for the application of modern digital tools of judicial cooperation in the EU and beyond. The training is conducted in cooperation with judges of the Osijek County Court and the Supreme Court of the Republic of Croatia. The organizers of the training are the Faculty of Law Osijek and the Association of Cro...

Migracije su za djecu napeto i teško iskustvo koje uključuje i njihovu integraciju u novo društvo, koje može biti različito od onog u njihovoj državi podrijetla, s obzirom na jezik koji govore, političke sustav te etničke, religijske i kulturološke razlike. Međunarodni i europski pravni standardi zagovaraju da se djeca u takvim situacija trebaju mo...

Europski sud za ljudska prava u nekoliko je predmeta utvrdio povrede Konvencije za zaštitu ljudskih prava i temeljnih sloboda u predmetima međunarodnih građanskopravnih otmica djeteta vođenim u Republici Hrvatskoj. Utvrđene povrede prava na pošteno suđenje te prava na poštovanje privatnog i obiteljskog života proizlazile su iz činjenica dugotrajnos...

While creating a new notion of everyday life, the COVID-19 pandemic also affects the resolution of cross-border family disputes, including the international child abduction cases. The return of an abducted child to the country of his or her habitual residence is challenged by travel restrictions, international border closures, quarantine measures,...

Potreba za materijalnim pravilima radnog prava, koja štite radnika u odnosu na superiornoga poslodavca, široko je prepoznata te je dio legislative još od nastanka radnog prava kao posebnoga područja privatnog prava. Percepcija po kojoj i pravila međunarodnog privatnog prava mogu služiti kao regulatorno sredstvo za postizanje određenih politika, ukl...

Prezentacija rada na 𝐎𝐊𝐑𝐔𝐆𝐋OM 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐋U "𝐈𝐃𝐄𝐍𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐓 𝐔 𝐏𝐑𝐄𝐊𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐍𝐈𝐂̌𝐍𝐈𝐌 𝐏𝐑𝐈𝐕𝐀𝐓𝐍𝐎𝐏𝐑𝐀𝐕𝐍𝐈𝐌 𝐎𝐃𝐍𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐌𝐀" u organizaciji Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti, Znanstvenog vijeća za državnu upravu, pravosuđe i vladavinu prava, 25. veljače 2021. godine Rad će uvodno prikazati iz kojih se izvora EU te međunarodnih izvora crpe odredbe o zaštiti identiteta malolje...

I’m addressing you on behalf of Osijek (J.J. Strossmayer) University project team. In this project outcome delivery I was accompanied by assistant professor Paula Poretti of Osijek University and full professor Ivana Kunda of Rijeka University. Our young researches Martina Drventić and Marijana Šego assisted with quantitative data collection. Croa...

Maintenance obligations within the European Union (EU) are governed by the Maintenance Regulation complemented by the 2007 Hague Child Support Convention, accompanied by the 2007 Hague Maintenance Protocol. Once the competent judicial or administrative authority receives a request for the international recovery of maintenance it should first addres...

The cornerstone of EU civil justice is the free circulation of judgments. To achieve that overall aim, the EU has systematically unified private international law rules. Member States afforded the EU with internal and external competence to enact a system that assures smooth recognition and enforcement. Leaning on the principle of mutual trust they...

The aim of the EUFams ’ s research project was to evaluate the state of implementation of legal instruments applicable to cross-border family matters adopted by European Union regulations and international conventions. The cornerstone of this research was the application of the Brussels IIa Regulation, the Maintenance Regulation, and the Succession...

Intenzivne prekogranične migracije, novi oblici životnih zajednica i neriješeni pravni odnosi roditelja/skrbnika i djece doprinose rastućem broju prekograničnih otmica djece. Međunarodna otmica djece defnirana je kao nezakonito odvođenje ili zadržavanje djeteta u državi drugoj od one njegova uobičajenog boravišta. Takvo odvođenje temelji se na jedn...

By taking into account the principle of the sincere cooperation many of the EU regulations set the obligation to the Member States to make a proper assessment of its own legal system and to notify or declare on the laws and schemes related to the ratione materiae of the regulation in matter. Among other, Member States are obliged to notify and nomi...

This research relates to the collection, processing, and analysis of incoming child abduction proceedings of the four biggest municipal courts (of Zagreb, Osijek, Split, and Rijeka) in Croatia. The research focused on proceedings initiated between 1 July 2013 and 1 July 2017. The collected decisions (all unpublished) were critically evaluated with...

In all cases concerning children, the principle of best interests of the child must be a primary consideration in all actions or decisions, regardless of their citizenship and residence status. The Common European Asylum System consists of many provisions promoting special protection of the best interest of unaccompanied children who seeking or are...

The Child Abduction Convention1 has the objective to secure the prompt return of the child, which was unilaterally removed across the border by one parent, back into his or her habitual environment. This mechanism corresponds to a specific idea of what constitutes the best interests of the child. The abducted child should be returned promptly to hi...

Monograph points to numerous aspects of cross-border movement of a child in EU.

Public presentation of research results on international child abduction practice before Croatian authorities. Research has been conducted in the framework of IZIP scientific support scheme of the J.J.Strossmayer University of Osijek 2018.

A far-reaching freedom of movement of persons in the European Union imposes the EU legislator’s obligation to create a legal framework for regulating an increasing number of aspects arising from cross-border movements. The current legal arrangement of these aspects is to a great extent related to the protection of family life and the rights of chil...

The purpose of the established system of the proceedings in cases of international child abduction, as set out in the Hague Convention on Child Abduction, which has been strengthened, in relation to the EU Member States, by the provisions of the Brussels II bis Regulation, is to secure a prompt return of the child that has been wrongfully removed o...

This paper examines how the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (hereinafter: MFEA) has clarified its competence in cases involving a wrongful removal or retention of a child. The Directorate for Consular Affairs of the MFEA and a network of diplomatic missions and consular offices overseas deal with nine new cases of child abduction for the p...

Intenzivne migracije koje su pogodile europsku uniju u posljednjem desetljeću nisu izostavile djecu. Na vrhuncu izbjegličke krize 2015. godine evidentirano je 1.322,845 zahtjeva za međunarodnom zaštitom na području europske unije, od kojih je 384.945 podneseno od strane djece mlađe od 18 godina. Broj maloljetnika bez pratnje evidentiran na području...

Prekogranično roditeljsko odvođenje i zadržavanje djece posljedica je intenzivnih prekograničnih migracija radne snage, novih oblika životnih zajednica te nesređenih međusobnih pravnih odnosa roditelja, odnosno skrbnika djeteta. Hrvatska nadležna tijela u tim postupcima obvezuje međunarodni (Haška konvencija o građanskopravnim aspektima međunarodne...

The purpose of the established system of the proceedings in cases of international child abduction, as set out in the Hague Convention on Child Abduction, which has been strengthened, in relation to the EU Member States, by the provisions of the Brussels II bis Regulation, is to secure a prompt return of the child that has been wrongfully removed o...

Kindesentführung vor kroatischen Gerichten mit besonderer Rücksicht auf die aus Deutschland kommenden Anträge CHILD ABDUCTION BEFORE CROATIAN COURTS WITH PARTICULAR EMPHASYS ON INCOMING APPLICATIONS FROM GERMANY The Republic of Croatia became a party to the Child Abduction Convention (hereinafter: HCA 1980) via notification of succession after t...

The system of the European family procedural law is based on the multiple cross-border institutes which are developing gradually. It represents a complex system of many interrelated regulations directly regulating the cross-border family relations, through which European legislator seeks to equalize, where possible, or to connect the rules on juris...

The Croatian Exchange Seminar was the third National Exchange Seminar organized within the EUFam’s Project. It was organized by the Faculty of Law Osijek. The aim of the Seminar was to evaluate the state of implementation of EU legal instruments on Family Law (Brussels IIbis Regulation, Maintenance Regulation and Succession Regulation), taking into...

Jedna od konzekvencija suvremene intenzivne mobilnosti je značajno povećanje broja prekograničnih obiteljskih predmeta. Pravni sustavi na ovu pojavu odgovaraju formiranjem (kako na nacionalnoj, tako i na međunarodnoj razini), u okviru kojega se u području pravne zaštite najranjivijih, prije svega djece, naglasak stavlja na rad i funkcioniranje sust...