This differs in variuos countries. But it means that, when e g judging in a case where a child is involved, at least the intention or the meaning of the national law and the convention has to be consistent . Shortly after the Committee on the Rights of the Child was elected. The task of the Committee is to read the reports from the states having ratified and having to send a report to the Committee on the implementation of the Convention in their countries. Each country shall send its first report two years after ratification.
Reports are then due to be delivered each fifth year.
The actual text of the Convention can be divided into four parts. First, there is a preamble which summarizes some of the guiding principles behind the Convention which might also assume significance in connection with the future interpretation of the text. Thereafter come the 41 material articles, followed by the two final parts that relate to the functioning of the Convention in actual practice, the implementation articles and the enter into force articles. This is unique for being an international UN document. Unique, and also the credit of this Convention, is that the different rights are not ranked according to their alleged importance, instead they interact with each other to form part of the same entity .