Type: Order

Authority: National Courts: Merit's Courts (Italy) - Corte di appello di Trento

Date: 07/29/2009

Subject: The Court raises the question of constitutional legitimacy of certain articles of the civil code which prohibit marriages between homosexuals, recalling the ECHR and the E.U.’s Charter of Fundamental Rights

Original language: Italian

Classification: Freedoms - Art. 9 Right to marry - Right to found a family - Equality - Art. 21 Non discrimination

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Notices: Effectiveness of the Charter
The order recalls the E.U.’s Charter of Fundamental Rights (art. 8)