Implementation report on the EU LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025

Tabled by Beata Kempa

1. Removed: Welcomes Added: Notes the Commission’s LGBTIQ Equality Strategy 2020-2025, adopted by the European Commission on … (COM(2020)0698), and its recent Progress Report on the implementation of the Strategy; Removed: notes the European Commission’s commitment to support Member States in their implementation of the Strategy, expresses deep concern about the disparities in openness to the Strategy between the Member States; welcomes the efforts by the European Commission to advance equality for LGBTIQ+ persons in all fields included in the Strategy; regrets that certain key actions originally envisaged by the Commission have not been implemented so far; Added: condemns all forms of violence or discrimination against persons on the basis of their race, colour, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or any other opinion, membership of a national minority, sexual orientation, property, birth, disability, age or sex; underlines that policies and legislation on marriage and parenthood depend exclusively on the sovereignty of Member States, and therefore urges the EU to rigidly respect national competences in the areas of health and family law; calls for the EU and the Member States to protect families and ensure respect for human dignity, democratic choices, equality before the law and human rights;

Wording as published by the EP, in English. PE756.855