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AMBER Alert Europe

AMBER Alert EU

AMBER Alert Europe is a non-profit connecting law enforcement and experts to find missing children.

Lobbying Activity

Meeting with Mari Hamalainen (Cabinet of Commissioner Magnus Brunner)

21 Oct 2025 · Safety and security of children

Meeting with Verena Mertens (Member of the European Parliament) and Schwarz Corporate Affairs International GmbH

26 Nov 2024 · Introductory Meeting

Meeting with Isabel Wiseler-Lima (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Nov 2024 · Missing children inside the European Union

Meeting with Jeroen Lenaers (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Apr 2024 · Creating a European centre for missing persons, including children

Meeting with Saskia Bricmont (Member of the European Parliament)

4 Apr 2024 · Missing Children

Meeting with Malin Björk (Member of the European Parliament)

3 Apr 2024 · Missing children

Meeting with Kinga Gál (Member of the European Parliament)

21 Mar 2024 · Missing children in Europe

Meeting with Marina Kaljurand (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Mar 2024 · Missing children legislation

Meeting with Andrzej Halicki (Member of the European Parliament)

5 Mar 2024 · Children's rights / missing children and the challenges in the area of cross-border cooperation

Meeting with Radka Maxová (Member of the European Parliament)

23 Feb 2024 · Missing children

Meeting with Dragoş Tudorache (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

24 Jan 2024 · Artificial Intelligence

Meeting with Radka Maxová (Member of the European Parliament)

26 Nov 2023 · Missing children

Response to Integrated child protection systems

20 Oct 2023

In the European Union, we have an alarming statistic that over 100,000 children are reported missing to Law Enforcement every year. In a vast majority of these cases, there is no evidence of a crime when the children are reported missing. Yet, children might still be at risk of life or of serious bodily harm, like for example a child writing a suicide note and disappearing, or a 6-year-old disappearing into a winterly forest. This absence of evidence of criminal component often impedes law enforcement agencies, limiting their use of certain investigative tools and causing delays in recovery efforts as many of their tools in many countries are only available upon investigating (the suspicion of) a crime. ALL tools available to Law enforcement to investigate serious crime should also be available to investigate a missing children case. EU Law enforcement authorities must further also have more capabilities to exchange data since many missing children cases are cross-border. Enhancing cross-border cooperation in addition to more tools available to law enforcement contributes to better protection of children and increases the chances of safely recovering them.
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Meeting with Radka Maxová (Member of the European Parliament)

27 Jun 2023 · Missing persons

Meeting with Jeroen Lenaers (Member of the European Parliament)

13 Apr 2023 · Acquaintance

Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

22 Mar 2023 · Staff Level: Prüm II Regulation

Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Digital Rights

8 Mar 2023 · Shadows meeting on Prüm II Regulation

Meeting with Paulo Rangel (Member of the European Parliament, Rapporteur)

7 Mar 2023 · Prum II Regulation

Meeting with Paul Tang (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur) and European Digital Rights

29 Sept 2022 · Staff Level: Prüm II Regulation

AMBER Alert Europe calls for missing children's inclusion

12 Sept 2022
Topic — EU proposal establishing rules to detect and combat online child sexual abuse.
Message — They propose including "missing children" in the new European Centre’s core area of activities. They also support systems that facilitate information exchange to accelerate issuing detection orders.12
Why — This expansion would integrate the foundation’s missing person search framework into official EU policy.3
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Meeting with Axel Voss (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

30 Aug 2022 · AI Act

Meeting with Petar Vitanov (Member of the European Parliament, Shadow rapporteur)

3 Mar 2022 · AI Act

Response to Combating child sexual abuse

25 Oct 2021

AMBER Alert Europe is a foundation that assists in saving missing children at risk by connecting law enforcement with other police experts and with the public across Europe. It advocates that one missing child is one too many and aims for zero missing children in Europe. AMBER Alert Europe welcomes this opportunity to provide feedback on the future developments of the Directive 2011/93/EU and favours the evolution of a comprehensive instrument which combats sexual abuse and sexual exploitation of children, as well as child pornography. This submission has been developed based on the proposal for a Common European Approach on Missing Children and Missing Persons, and the guide 'Understanding and Managing Risk in the Context of Missing Persons'. Please find enclosed our feedback in response to the impact assessment.
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Meeting with Monika Maglione (Cabinet of Commissioner Ylva Johansson)

30 Mar 2021 · AMBER Alert EU draft proposal for the EU Commission and EU Council in order to better protect missing children and persons in Europe.

Meeting with Bernardus Smulders (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

26 Oct 2016 · Police Cooperation on the Protection of Children

Meeting with Isabelle Perignon (Cabinet of Commissioner Věra Jourová)

20 Jan 2016 · Information on activities in 2016 – cooperation with member states in the field of child alert system and expertise and training for authorities in the setting up of the alert system

Meeting with Liene Balta (Cabinet of First Vice-President Frans Timmermans)

7 Oct 2015 · Protection of endangered missing children in Europe