Following the request by the French Court of Cassation, on April 10, 2019 the European Court of Human Rights issued an Advisory Opinion, stating that: “In a situation where a child was born abroad through a gestational surrogacy arrangement and was conceived using the gametes of the intended father and a third-party donor, and where […]
Month: April 2019
ELI Instrument on ‘Empowering European Families: Towards More Party Autonomy in European Family Law and Succession Law’ – Electronic voting procedure
ELI has initiated an electronic voting procedure for the approval of the ELI Instrument on ‘Empowering European Families: Towards More Party Autonomy in European Family Law and Succession Law’. The ELI Council has already cast their vote on this issue at its meeting of 28 February to 1 March 2019. Its decision can be found here. The Instrument […]
Conclusions & Recommendations Adopted By Council on General Affairs and Policy – Hague Conference on Private International Law
Topics addressed: Work relating to possible new instruments Judgments Project Parentage / Surrogacy Project Recognition of domestic adoptions Family agreements Cooperation with UNIDROIT, UNCITRAL, WIPO and other International Organisations Post-Convention activities – 1980 Child Abduction and 1996 Child Protection Conventions 2007 Child Support Convention (incl. iSupport) and its Protocol International transfer of maintenance funds 1993 Intercountry […]
The European Commission is launching a reflection process on the rule of law in the European Union and setting out possible avenues for future action – 3 April 2019
The Communication presented today takes stock of the available tools to monitor, assess, and protect the rule of law in the Union. It also looks back at the experience of the past years so that we can start a wider European debate on how the rule of law could be further strengthened. The past experience, […]
