convalidation

"Convalidation" is necessary for recognition of working years during the 1991-1995 period and, thus, pension rights.

Implementation of existing commitments needs to continue and a way forward on the convalidation issue found.

This convalidation is necessary to assure pension rights.

Discussion continued about a mechanism for Croatia to address convalidation as well as other matters highlighted during the process.

Reopen the possibility for convalidation claims and review all applications made since expiry of previous deadline.

There have been cases where people submitting diplomas from a "Diploma Mill" to this agency for convalidation, have been prosecuted for fraud.

If a marriage has been contracted invalidly, the Church can still exempt from some diriment impediments, granting a convalidation or sanatio in radice of the marriage.

The recognition or "convalidation" of working years during the "Republika Srpska Krajina" (RSK) is still an outstanding issue.

In Catholic canon law, a validation of marriage or convalidation of marriage is the validation of a Catholic putative marriage.

The issues are: — — A settlement for terminated Occupancy and Tenancy Rights (OTR); The convalidation of working years.

On refugee return, we note that the implementation of the convalidation decision for validating pension rights has begun and information on the changes to the rules has been made available to the returnee community.

Although there have been some positive developments, there has been little change in terms of the difficulties returning refugees face, with access to housing and employment as well as convalidation remaining the main concerns.

Both refugees who return and those who opt for local integration also often encounter difficulties with access to pension rights in particular with regard to the so-called "convalidation" for rights accumulated in the period 1991-1995.

In upper level classes, and until this year, the school offered two curricular options: the Spanish national convalidation Selectividad program (which also granted the Spanish Diploma to students) or the American Diploma one.

Three Task Force meetings were held and one Ministerial meeting, serving to reduce the number of open issues to two: convalidation and how to deal with lost OTR for those who do not wish to return.

Two key issues remained outstanding: a solution for former Occupancy and Tenancy Rights (OTR) holders unwilling to return to Croatia and the issue of the convalidation of working years in formerly occupied areas.

The correction of this invalidity after the marriage requires first that the impediment has ceased or has been dispensed, and then a "convalidation" can take place or a sanatio in radice can be granted to make the marriage valid.

The original deadline for requests for convalidation expired already in 1999 and needs to be reopened for the many potential beneficiaries who could not reasonably have been expected to apply by then, a large number of whom were, and still are, abroad and, thus, could not submit applications.

(Register-office marriage came in 1980, solemnised in 1990 by the high-society Jesuits of Farm Street in a Catholic service of "convalidation.")

In November the government reported receiving an estimated 23,000 applications for "convalidation" and issuing decisions in approximately 89 percent of the cases.

The government approved documents in approximately 56 percent of the cases that it decided during the year, rejecting 44 percent of the applications for convalidation.

The Croatian government has taken steps to address other key impediments, including the convalidation of pension rights and providing housing, but has not fully achieved either.

International observers reported that the government initiated implementation of the new procedure, and the UNHCR registered 9,200 new applications for convalidation.