The Committee of the Parties to the Convention on the Protection of Children against Sexual Exploitation and Sexual Abuse (known as the Lanzarote Committee) is the body established by the Council of Europe to monitor the implementation of the Convention on the protection of children against sexual exploitation and abuse.

The Committee is composed of representatives of 48 States party to the Convention (46 CoE member States, Russian Federation and Tunisia) and its function is to assess the protection of children against sexual violence on the basis of information provided by national authorities in response to two periodic questionnaires (a general questionnaire and a thematic questionnaire) and other sources.

Due to the subdivision of the monitoring procedure into thematic cycles, the Committee can regularly provide a comparative overview of the situation in all States parties regarding a specific trend in the fight against child sexual exploitation and abuse. The Committee also has the function of facilitating the collection, analysis and exchange of information, experience and good practices to increase the capacity to prevent and combat sexual abuse and violence against children. Within this framework, the Committee organises activities aimed at exchanging information and holding hearings on specific issues raised by the implementation of the Convention.