You have a right to access information about your origins.
Information about your origins
This information may include:
- the identity of your biological parents
- the circumstances of your birth, such as the time and place of your birth
- your nationality
- if you are a foundling - any information regarding the circumstances of your finding
important Foundlings are children who have been abandoned after their birth, either in a hospital or in another place, and have no proof of their origins.
- information about your childhood spent in care
Children in public care
If you have been in public care as a child, you may wish to find information about the identity of your foster or adoptive parents, or other persons who have taken you into their care, the places you have lived, the state of your health and other conditions of your upbringing.
Persons who have been in public care as children are recognized as having a special interest in receiving the information. They need to understand their childhood and early development if it causes no harm.
Access to information
Any information regarding your origins is your personal data and is thus protected by the right to a private life.
Read more generally about the right to access your own data.
Read more specifically about how to request information about your origins.