Mr. Colm McGennis:

I do not think we are. The UK has a policy in this area, but at an EU level, we are not aware of any country that is proposing to bring in a specific regulation. They utilise their existing family law to resolve it, seemingly in one of two ways. One is by adoption or step-adoption and the other is by recognition of a birth certificate from the country where the surrogacy took place. Basically, we would have somebody who went to Ukraine and the birth certificate would list the mother and father as the intending parents and they would accept that at face value. Every country is grappling with the same issues we are. They may have not even allowed domestic surrogacy but they have certainly prohibited commercial surrogacy in their home country and then they must try to reconcile that. From what we know, it has not proved to be possible so far.