European legal and policy framework on immigration detention of children EU Member State Detention allowed? RO no Law No. 122/2006 regarding asylum in Romania, 4 May 2006 (Legea nr. 122/2006 privind azilul în România), Article 195 (2) SE yes Swedish Aliens Act (Utlänningslag 2005:716), as amended, Chapter 10 (3) SI yes International Protection Act (Zakon o mednarodni zaščiti, ZMZ-1), 25 March 2016, Article 84 (2) Restriction of movement to the premises of the Asylum Home (retention) possible as per Article 84 (1) SK no Law No.  04/2011 Coll. on Residence of Aliens (Zákon o pobyte cudzincov), Articles 1 (2) and 88a (1) and 88a (3) UK no Immigration Act 2014, 14 May 2014, Section 5 Legal source Detention of unaccompanied children in return procedures 106 EU Member State Detention allowed? AT yes Police Act (Fremdenpolizeigesetz), 2005 as amended, Article Sections 76 (1) and 79 (2) (for children below 16) BE no Immigration Act (Loi sur l’accès au territoire, le séjour, l’établissement et l’éloignement des étrangers), 15 December 1980, last amended on 13 September 2016, Article 74/19 BG no Law on Foreigners (Закон за чужденците), last amended 27 December 2016 Article 44 (6) and (9) CY yes Aliens and Immigration Law (Ο περί Αλλοδαπών και Μεταναστεύσεως Νόμος), Cap 105, Article 18PH (1) CZ yes Act on the Residence of Foreign Nationals (Zákon č. 326/1999 Sb. o pobytu cizinců na území České republiky), Section 124 (6) DE yes Residence Act (Aufenthaltsgesetz), last amended on 22 December 2016 (BGBl. I S. 3155), Section 62 read together with the General Administrative Regulations relating to the Residence (Allgemeine Verwaltungsvorschrift zum Aufenthaltsgesetz), 26 October 2009 at 62.0.5 Some Länder forbid detention of unaccompanied children DK yes Danish Aliens Act (Udlændingeloven, lovbekendtgørelse nr. 1021), Sections 35 and 37 EE yes Obligation to Leave and Prohibition on Entry Act (Väljasõidukohustuse ja sissesõidukeelu seadus), 1 January 2016, Section 265 (4), which states that minors must be accommodated separately from unrelated adults EL yes Law 3907/2011, Article 32 ES no Organic Law 4/2000 (Aliens Act), Ley Orgánica 4/2000, sobre derechos y libertades de los extranjeros en España y su integración social, as amended on 30 October 2015, Articles 35 and 62. FI yes Aliens Act, as amended on 26 June 2015 Ulkamaalaislaki, Utlänningslag, Article 122 FR no Code de l’entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d’asile, Article L511–4, which bans return of unaccompanied children and consequently also detention HR yes Law on Foreigners (Zakon o strancima), Article 132 HU no Act No. 2 of 2007 on the entry or stay of third-country nationals (2007. évi II. törvény a harmadik országbeli állampolgárok beutazásáról és tartózkodásáról), Article 56 (2) IE no Immigration Act 1999, Section 5 (4) (a) Legal source