EU: Member States must recognize parents from other countries
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“Our position on parental rights, which includes cross-border cases involving several Member States, is that if a parent is recognized as such in one Member State the other Member States must recognize that paternity and the decision must be respected” . This was stated by the spokesman of the European Commission Christian Wigand, in the daily briefing with the press, a few days after the decision of the Padua prosecutor’s office which on June 19 challenged 33 birth certificates with which the mayor Sergio Giordani, from 2017 to today, recognized the children of gay couples also with the name of the “second parent”, i.e. the non-biological mother.
“I am not personally aware” of the decisions of the Padua prosecutor’s office on the transcription of the birth certificates of some children of same-parent couples, reports the spokesman, and “I will check if there is a need to say something”, concluded Wigand, replying, in daily briefing, to a question on the case of challenging the documents in Padua.
At present, according to research by the European Parliament’s study centre, full joint adoption by same-sex couples is legal in 13 EU countries. Then there are four other countries that have adopted regulations that set certain limits. To harmonize the legislative framework, the European Parliament is discussing a proposal for a regulation on the recognition of parenthood between Member States. In the text, which is currently being examined by the Justice Commission of the Eurochamber, it is noted that “the refusal to recognize parenthood registration increases the risk of making a child stateless, or may lead to the refusal of a parent to obtain permission for a visit in case the child is hospitalised.
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