Sexual violence criminal offence – Ban on the extenuating circumstance regarding minor offences referred to in the third paragraph of Article 609-bis of the Italian Criminal Code (sexual violence)

Assisted Reproductive Technologies - Bar on heterologous medically assisted reproduction and fines to facilities performing it - Incompatibility with the provisions of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ECHR) private family establishing the right to respect for private and family life and the prohibition of discrimination

Judicial correction of the assigned gender – Effects of the judgment regarding the correction on preexisting marriage – Automatic termination of the civil effects resulting from the registration of the marriage celebrated by religious rite, without the need for an application and judicial decision

Criminal offences and fines - Persecutory acts [the so-called stalking]

Adoption – Adopted person’s access to information concerning his or her origins – Access to the identity of the biological mother having declared at birth she did not wish to disclose her identity 

Involuntary termination of pregnancy offence – (the so-called involuntary abortion) – Medical negligence

Abortion and Voluntary Termination of Pregnancy – Minor pregnant women – Request for termination of pregnancy in the first ninety days

Medically Assisted Procreation - Prohibition on the heterologous fertilisation

Abortion and voluntary termination of pregnancy - Termination of pregnancy in the first ninety days of gestation - Minor pregnant woman

Maternity and childhood, protection of working mothers – Adoption and pre-adoptive fostering of a child - Arrangements for payment of maternity allowance for a period of three months following the time the child enters the family home

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Penitentiary system – Detainees must have conversations under the visual surveillance of custody staff - Alleged impediment to a full emotional relationship between the detainee and the partner, i.e. the spouse or the de facto cohabiting partner

Working mothers – Hypothesis of premature birth and admission of the newly born child to a public or private hospital – Right of the working mother to benefit from all or part of the mandatory period of leave to which she is entitled from the time the child enters the family home, upon request and where compatible with her state of health attested by medical documentation

Same-sex future spouses’ request seeking to obtain publication of notice of their intention to marriage - Refusal of the civil registrar since Italian legal system makes no provision for marriage between individuals of the same sex on the grounds that this would be contrary to public order - Refusal to allow persons of homosexual orientation to contract marriage with persons of the same sex

Maternity allowance - Right of the self-employed father to receive maternity allowance in place of the biological mother - Alleged unjustified unequal treatment between self-employed fathers and mothers and between self-employed and employed fathers

Same-sex couple – Marriage between same-sex people

Protection of female workers – Maternity allowance – Alleged violation of the principles of maternity and child protection and the principle of the protection of working mothers

Prohibition on cryopreservation of supernumerary embryos - Admissibility of cryopreservation of embryos until the date of transfer only for serious and documented force majeure relating to the woman's health

Medically Assisted Procreation - Possibility of an implantation of up to a maximum of three embryos - The cryopreservation of the embryos is permitted only if the transfer of the embryos into the uterus is not possible due to serious and documented reasons of force majeure relating to the health of the woman which were not foreseeable at the time of fertilisation 

Equality before the law without distinction of sex - Possibility for all citizens, of both sexes, to have equal access to public and elected offices in equal shares