00:00Just what I can tell you also on the question of surrogacy, that issues related to the substantive family law,
00:06including surrogacy issues, fall in the exclusive competence of member states.
00:12So only member states can regulate on these matters. The European Union doesn't have any competence.
00:17However, we are using our competence to protect children, and especially whenever it is about cross-border protection of children
00:28and the recognition of parenthood.
00:30And for this purpose, we have proposed a piece of legislation last year, a regulation on the protection of parenthood.
00:40And this should serve, of course, to protect the rights and the best interests of children in cross-border situations.
00:49Specifically, the regulation stipulates that parenthood, wherever it was established in one member state, it will have to be recognized
00:57in all other member states.
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