This database entry is part of a case-law database: EU: Standards and Case-law on (alternatives to) detention of migrant children.

EASO, Practical Guide on Age Assessment (2nd edition), 2018

The EASO Practical Guide on Age Assessment acknowledges, inter alia, that the benefit of the doubt in age determination procedures is a key principle and safeguard since none of the currently available methods of age assessment can determine a specific age with certainty. So, if after the age assessment remains the doubt that the individual could be a child, they should be treated as such.

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