Civil Code Returns to Parliament, European Union Dates Admission

Haxhiu has been declared after meeting with European Union Ambassador to Kosovo Thomas Szunyog, who has said it will be the responsibility of the government and MPs to establish the Civil Code and ensure its implementation.

After completing the European Union project for the support of the Civil Code, the chief of the EU office in Kosovo, Thomas Szunyog, has declared it important that the draft be approved by the Assembly of Kosovo.

Szunyog: Civil Code draft must be approved by Kosovo Assembly

We now have a draft before us, but what's important is to make sure this draft is approved by the Parliament of the Republic of Kosovo. It will be the responsibility of the government and the Assembly to complete the establishment of the Civil Code and ensure its implementation and overall success”, Szunyog said.

According to him, this draft would modernise Kosovo's society in line with European standards.

Szunyog has said that some of the benefits that bring in the Civil Code draft is ensuring the equality of women in family rights, children's rights and the regulation of the issue of marriage of the same gender.

And Justice Minister Albulen Haxhiu has said the draft will proceed to the Assembly without delay.

Haxhiu: We plan to proceed with the Civil Code draft very soon.

After the completion of the project, we will then proceed with further co-operation for the civil procedure code draft. But let me announce that we as justice minister plan that very quickly, without delay, the Civil Code draft, which is a very important document for the Republic of Kosovo, to proceed to the Assembly of the Republic of Kosovo”, Haxhiu has said.

It has said the draft is in line with European standards until it has added that the same must be adopted.

Haxhiu: We must cooperate to push the civil code forward

Even Ambassador Szunyog cited the importance that the Civil Code has in sense of human freedoms and rights, international standards because the Civil Code draft is in line with these standards, therefore being both the government and the majority, and the opposition is obliged to co-operate and have a consensus to push it forward”, she said.

In March of this year, Kosovo's Assembly has failed to adopt the Civil Code in principle, a document that has not received even the support of the status deputies. Objections and debate have developed due to disagreements over a part of this code intended to regulate same-gender marriage.