The ECAI on the way -Nine Autonomous Communities already have Collaborating Organisms of International Adoption (ECAI)-

They do not want to be private adoption agencies; this is the reason why a new name was invented for them. They also do not want to run the risk of finally becoming private agencies. For this reason, the various decrees that regulate their accreditation establish the absence, in any ECAI, of profitable aims; they also establish the control of the Administration in relation to their composition, functioning, taxes to be applied and financial situation. It is nothing more than another link in this administrative will to facilitate international adoption, controlling and watching over the transparency of all the process. Nevertheless, a link in which there are also underlying contradictions, doubts and questions.

Although the ECAI were born late in our country, they did it with a clear and very important advantage in respect to the various organisms and associations for international adoption which had existed for many years in other countries: there is now a clear legislative reference in relation to international adoption (The Hague Agreement) and these new collaborating organisms of international adoption are set up with full auditing on the part of the competent governmental authority and exert their activity under its inspection.

Supported by this "service" that the very same Administration recognize they are developing, some ECAI are starting to openly complain about the fact that the collaborating organisms do not perceive any kind of financial subvention on the part of Public Administration. "We all are undergoing all the difficulties of the private companies", points out Marisol Batalla, juridic advisor of ADDIA-ECAI. "The ECAI will not be able to function correctly if they have to constantly depend on whether there are enough parents coming or not... The control of the Administration is necessary and indispensable, but also its support; otherwise, they are forcing us to function with the criteria of a private agency, making international adoption a privilege for a few, those that can financially afford it".