The Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe adopted on 9 December 2009 the Recommendation (2009)13 on the nationality of children. The Recommendation deals with the nationality status of children and aims in particular at reducing statelessness for children. It deals with nationality consequences of a child-parent family relationship, birth on the territory of a state to a foreign parent, the position of children treated as nationals, rights of children in proceedings affecting their nationality, and registration of birth.

The full text of the Recommendation can be found here.