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Recognition of parenthood

Justice and fundamental rights

This legislative initiative aims to ensure that the parenthood established in one Member State will be recognised in other Member States. The instrument would cover the civil law aspects of a child-parent relationship and ensure that parents maintain their rights in cross-border situations, mainly where families travel or move within the Union.

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25 responses

ILGA-Europe urges EU-wide recognition for rainbow families' parental rights

The European Region of the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Association, 13 Feb 2023

ILGA-Europe supports harmonising international law rules so that parenthood established in one country is recognized everywhere. They argue recognition must prioritize the child's best interests, regardless of how they were born or conceived.
Same-sex parents would avoid the excessive costs and stress of lengthy domestic litigation.
Conservative national governments lose the legal authority to ignore foreign birth certificate details.

European Women's Lobby demands surrogacy exclusion in parenthood rules

European Women's Lobby, 9 Feb 2023

The lobby demands that surrogacy be excluded and recognized as a form of exploitation. They call for criminalizing profit-seeking third parties involved in surrogacy arrangements.
This would protect women's bodily integrity and stop the commodification of new-born children.
Commercial surrogacy providers would face criminal sanctions and be treated as human traffickers.

Transgender Europe urges recognition of trans parents across borders

Transgender Europe, 13 Feb 2023

The organization requests that the new law covers the specific needs of transgender parents and their children. They want legal gender changes to be recognized on all family documents across the European Union.
Trans families would enjoy safer travel and consistent legal recognition throughout the Union.
National authorities would lose the power to enforce restrictive and outdated definitions of parenthood.

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Transgender Europe, 12 May 2021

Transgender Europe (TGEU) represents trans people in Europe and Central Asia. It is a member-based organisation created in 2005. Since then, TGEU has kept growing and established itself as a legitimate voice for the trans community in Europe and Central Asia with 172 member organisations in 48…

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ADF International Belgium, 10 Feb 2023

ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. We submit that the EC should abandon the current Regulation for the reasons below. a) The EUs limited competence EU Member States differ in the way they…

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ADF International Belgium, 7 May 2021

ADF International is a faith-based legal advocacy organization that protects fundamental freedoms and promotes the inherent dignity of all people. We respectfully submit that the European Commission’s (EC) initiative to recognize cross-border parenthood should be analysed with caution, due to…

Catholic family federation urges EU to reject automatic parenthood recognition

Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, 8 Feb 2023

The federation requests that the EU use individual court cases instead of a broad new law. They want legislators to respect national control over family rules and strongly oppose any recognition of surrogacy.
This approach helps maintain national family law traditions and blocks the legal acceptance of surrogacy.
Families using surrogacy would lose the guarantee of uniform legal recognition across all EU countries.

Catholic family federation urges EU to respect national parenthood laws

Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe, 11 May 2021

FAFCE argues that Member States must retain exclusive competence to define marriage and parenthood. They oppose automatic recognition of parenthood, particularly for surrogacy, to protect national legal sovereignty.
This would prevent EU-level mandates from forcing member states to recognize non-traditional family structures.
Children of same-sex parents risk losing legal protections when their family moves across borders.

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Forbidden Colours, 12 Dec 2022

As Forbidden Colours, we welcome the initiative regarding the recognition of parenthood of all parents in the European Union. As has been ruled several times by the European Court of Justice, a parent in one country is a parent in another country. While this initiative is very timely, Forbidden…

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European Network on Statelessness, 12 May 2021

Protecting the right to a nationality for children of same-sex couples in the EU: The enjoyment of LGBTIQ* rights varies across Europe, including the recognition of same-sex partnerships or marriages and the recognition of legal parentage between children and those who raise them as parents. As a…

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EUROPE FOR FAMILY, 1 Feb 2023

The Proposal of Regulation published on December 2022 uses the concept of Parenthood in the purpose of reengineering family and filiation. It will encourage surrogacy in the European Union and changes the substance of national legislation on family matters. Parenthood does not equate with filiation…

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EUROPE FOR FAMILY, 10 May 2021

At the international level, the definition of parenthood is based upon the Art. 7 of the International Convention of the Rights of the Child: the two parents of the child. All legislation produced by the EU must fall under this binding definition. All 27 EU Member States ratified the ICRC have to…

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FEMINA EUROPA, 8 Feb 2023

Femina Europa ONG française engagée dans la défense des droits des femmes dans les institutions internationales et européennes veut faire part de ses inquiétudes face à la proposition de la Commission européenne d'un règlement sur la « reconnaissance mutuelle de la parentalité transfrontalière ,…

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FEMINA EUROPA, 10 May 2021

Femina Europa est une ONG française, dont le but est de promouvoir l'identité et les droits des femmes par la connaissance mutuelle et le respect de l'autre sexe, tout en prenant soin des spécificités du sexe féminin. La Commission européenne a publié des lignes directrices préliminaires pour un…

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Institut Européen de Bioéthique-European Institute of Bioethics, 13 Feb 2023

La proposition de règlement entrainerait de facto la reconnaissance automatique de tout type de filiation et dunion dans chaque Etat membre de lUE, dès lors quelles sont prévues dans le droit national dun autre État membre. En effet, en vertu du principe de non-discrimination, lon conçoit…

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Institut für Ehe und Familie, 10 Feb 2023

(...) Wie die EU-Kommission in ihrem Vorschlag darlegt, kann die unterschiedliche Anerkennung der Elternschaft zur Erschwernis der Niederlassungsfreiheit innerhalb der EU führen. Es ist daher nachvollziehbar, dass man nach Lösungen sucht, um die Anerkennung aller in einem EU-Mitgliedstaat…

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, 6 Feb 2023

Die Initiative STOPPT Leihmutterschaft ist eine Initiative von Expert*innen, die sich unabhängig von ihrer jeweiligen weltanschaulichen, parteipolitischen oder religiösen Einstellung für die Stärkung des nationalen umfassenden Verbots von Leihmutterschaft sowie die Unterstützung der internationalen…

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Instytut na rzecz Kultury Prawnej Ordo Iuris, 3 Feb 2023

Opinia jest dostępna w załączniku. / The opinion is available in the attachment.

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Alliance VITA, 27 Jan 2023

En létat, cette proposition de règlement contrevient aux principes dattribution et de proportionnalité fixés par les traités de lUnion. I-Prévu par larticle 5 du Traité sur lUnion Européenne (TUE), le principe d'attribution régit la délimitation des compétences de l'UE et implique que celle-ci…

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aktion leben österreich, 20 Jan 2023

We disapprove of the Commission's proposal for the recognition of parenthood between Member States because that means recognising surrogacy. Surrogacy is a highly controversial technique that violates women's rights, children's rights and human rights. According to the European Parliament, this is…

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Emberi Méltóság Központ, 12 May 2021

On behalf of Human Dignity Center, our Hungary-based non-governmental organization I would like to contribute to this important topic. In 2015 through the Mum, Dad & Kids European Citizens' Initiative hundreds and thousands of EU citizens expressed their opinion: marriage is a union of one man and…

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Alliance VITA, 12 May 2021

Alliance VITA souhaite insister auprès de la Commission européenne sur la nécessité, dans sa future proposition de règlement, de garantir le respect du principe de subsidiarité, s’agissant de la compétence exclusive des États membres en matière de définition du mariage et de la parentalité. La…

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Institut für Ehe und Familie, 12 May 2021

Das Institut für Ehe und Familie (IEF) steht dem hier vorgestellten Regulierungsvorhaben unter der von EU-Kommissionspräsidentin von der Leyen vorgegebenen Prämisse „if you are parent in one country, your are parent in every country“ höchst skeptisch gegenüber. Die Elternschaft durch Rechtsakt…

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Instytut na rzecz Kultury Prawnej Ordo Iuris, 12 May 2021

* Article 81(3) TFEU, cited in the EC Communication as the basis for the planned European Union action on the recognition of parenthood between Member States, may not constitute the basis for action by the EU institutions aimed at interfering with the substantive family law of the Member States; *…

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Fundacion CitizenGO, 5 May 2021

Mrs. Ursula Von der Leyen President of the European Commission CC Mr. Joseph Borrell High Representative of the European Union Vice-President of the European Commission Mrs. Dubravka Šuica Vice-President of the European Commission for Democracy and Demography Ms. Margaritis…