© 2013 European Network on Statelessness. All rights reserved. This guide and sections thereof may be distributed and reproduced without formal permission for the purposes of noncommercial research, private study, news reporting and training, provided that the material is appropriately attributed to the authors and the copyright-holder. This is a publication of the European Network on Statelessness (ENS), a civil society alliance with 50 member organisations in over 30 countries, committed to addressing statelessness in Europe. Among other objectives, ENS advocates for the establishment of specialised, effective and rights-based determination and protection mechanisms for stateless persons. This guide is therefore intended to support the ENS Campaign to Protect Stateless Persons in Europe which was launched in October 2013. This publication has been commissioned and supported by the UNHCR Representation in Serbia. The views expressed in this publication are those of the author and the European Network on Statelessness, and do not necessarily represent the views of UNHCR. This guide was written by Gábor Gyulai (Hungarian Helsinki Committee and Chair of the ENS Steering Committee).1 Detailed comments and input on the content and design of the guide were provided by the ENS Steering Committee: Ivanka Kostic (Praxis Serbia), Laura van Waas (Tilburg Statelessness Programme, Chris Nash (Asylum Aid), Amal de Chickera (The Equal Rights Trust) and Maxim Ferschtman (Open Society Justice Initiative). ENS is grateful for additional comments and support provided by Inge Sturkenboom, Mark Manly, Radha Govil, Davor Rako and Juan Ignacio Mondelli (UNHCR), as well as Tamás Molnár. ENS is particularly grateful to national contributors and resource persons, without who this report could not have been possible: Claire Salignat (Forum Réfugiés – Cosi, France), Nato Gagnidze (Innovations and Reforms Center, Georgia), Giulia Perin and Mariella Console (ASGI, Italy), Svetlana Djackova and Dzena Andersone (Latvian Centre on Human Rights, Latvia), Irina Greiter (Law Centre of Advocates, Moldova), Katarína Fajnorová (Human Rights League, Slovakia), Arsenio Cores and Valeriia Cherednichenko (Spain), Kamla Adiseshiah and Chris Nash (Asylum Aid, United Kingdom) Finally ENS is grateful for proof-reading and editorial assistance provided by Mona Mojtabavi. 1 Gábor Gyulai is Refugee Programme Coordinator at the Hungarian Helsinki Committee. He is an international expert on statelessness and has assisted the creation of national statelessness determination mechanisms in various states as well as he has trained hundreds of state officers, lawyers, UNHCR staff members and others on statelessness in recent years.