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'Rainbow families' – same-sex couples with or without children – still face many obstacles while exercising their free movement rights today. In a debate in the European Parliament in September 2010, then European Commissioner for Justice, Fundamental Rights and Citizenship, Viviane Reding, stated, 'Let me stress this. If you live in a legally recognised same-sex partnership, or marriage, in country A, you have the right – and this is a fundamental right – to take this status and that of your partner ...

Easier acceptance of public documents

Ve stručnosti 02-06-2016

In May, the European Parliament is due to vote on a proposal for a regulation on promoting the free movement of citizens and businesses by simplifying the requirements for presenting certain public documents issued by another Member State. The proposal, one of the key initiatives presented by the Commission during the European Year of Citizens in 2013, is also intended to contribute to the European Union's ‘Justice for growth’ policy.

Cost of Non Europe Reports are intended to evaluate the possibilities for gains and the realisation of a ‘public good’ through common action at EU level in specific policy areas and sectors. In particular, this study analyses the cost for citizens and businesses of the formalities which are currently necessary in order to make certain public documents acceptable in different Member States. The study concludes that the abolition of legalisation and Apostille, the simplified certification of copies ...

Fraud with respect to civil status

Podrobná analýza 15-11-2012

The International Commission on Civil Status is an intergovernmental organisation including EU and non-EU member states which, for more than 60 years, has been facilitating international cooperation with respect to civil status and encouraging the exchange of information between registration officers. The ICCS, anxious to safeguard the reliability of the information contained in civil status registers, has been led to examine the problem of fraud with respect to civil status. The issue features systematically ...

Perhaps one of the single greatest successes of the European Union is the creation of an area without borders in which people, goods and services move freely. In 2010 alone, there were almost 11 million citizens living in another Member State.ont.s

The right of every citizen of the Union to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, as laid down by Article 21 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, implies the right to have their civil identity recognised, i.e., in legal terms, to have their status recognised, as formalised by civil status documents. This firstly means that citizens must be able to easily prove their civil status when exercising their right of movement. Secondly, they must be able to have ...