12/12/2019 (Agence Europe) – In an open letter to European Commissioners Věra Jourová and Didier Reynders, sent on Thursday, 12 December, Pierre-Luc Vogel, President of the Council of Notariats of the European Union (CNUE), asked the new Commission to take up the subject of the protection of vulnerable adults, i. e. people who are no longer able to clearly express their wishes because of illness or their advanced age. In the letter, he explains that protection regimes are not systematically recognised and a person placed under a protection regime in one Member State should be protected in all Member States. The letter concludes by saying that “Five years is the time needed for the European Commission to engage with all stakeholders, draft a proposal, negotiate it with the European Parliament and the Council and finally adopt it”. (MF)