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Lack of legal recognition of the filiation relationship between a child born abroad through surrogacy and the intended parent – Refusal to register in Italy foreign order
Same-sex couple – Registration in Italy of a foreign judgment attributing the parenthood to two men
Verification of the parental relationship between a child born abroad as a result of surrogacy and the “intended parent” – Protection for child’s best interests
Refusal of the French authorities to transcribe the Ukrainian birth certificates of surrogate-born children into the French register of births
Article 8 - The case concerned applicants who, acting outside any standard adoption procedure, had brought to Italy from abroad a child who had no biological tie with either parent, and who had been conceived, according to the domestic courts, through assisted reproduction techniques that were unlawful under Italian law
Dissenting / Concurring: Raimondi, Mirjana Lazarova Trajkovska, Ledi Bianku, Julia Laffranque, Paul Lemmens, Yonko Grozev
Refusal by French authorities to transcribe the birth certificates of children born under surrogacy agreements in India violated the children's right to respect for private life under Article 8
Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her maternity leave – Less favourable treatment of a commissioning mother as regards the grant of maternity leave
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Commissioning mother who has had a baby through a surrogacy arrangement – Refusal to grant her paid leave equivalent to maternity leave or adoptive leave – Commissioning mother unable to bear a child
Judge Rapporteur: M. Safjan
Refusal to grant legal recognition in France to parent-child relationships that had been legally established in the United States between children born as a result of surrogacy arrangement and the couples who had had recourse to such arrangements - Violation of Article 8
Refusal to grant legal recognition in France to parent-child relationships that had been legally established in the United States between children born as a result of surrogacy arrangement and the couples who had had recourse to such arrangements - Violation of Article 8 (Respect for private life)