73It follows from Article 24(2) of the Charter and Article 3(1) of the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 20 November 1989, to which the explanations relating to Article 24 of the Charter expressly refer, that the best interests of the child must not only be taken into account in the substantive assessment of applications concerning children, but must also influence the decision-making process leading to that assessment, subject to specific procedural safeguards. As the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child has observed, the expression ‘best interests of the child’, within the meaning of Article 3(1), refers to a substantive right, an interpretative legal principle and a rule of procedure (see General comment No 14 (2013) of the Committee on the Rights of the Children on the right of the child to have his or her best interests taken as a primary consideration (Art. 3, para. 1) CRC/C/GC/14, paragraph 6).
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