Στην υπόθεση Βαλλιανάτου κλπ. κατά Ελλάδας, λόγω αποκλεισμού από την εφαρμογή του Ν.3719/2008 , για το "Σύμφωνο Ελεύθερης Συμβίωσης", των ομοφυλοφιλικών ζευγαριών.
Το σχετικό δελτίο τύπου του δικαστηρίου συνοπτικά έχει ως εξής:
Vallianatos and Others v. Greece
7 November 2013 Vallianatos and Others v. Greece
The case concerned the “civil unions” in Greece introduced by a law of 2008, entitled “Reforms concerning the family, children and society”. This law made provision for an official form...
of partnership, allowing the persons concerned to register their relationship within a more flexible legal framework than that provided by marriage. The applicants – eight Greek nationals (some of them living together as couples, while others are in a relationship but do not live together) and an association – complained that the law in question provided for civil unions only for different-sex couples, thereby automatically excluding same-sex couples from its scope. They complained that the Greek State had introduced a distinction which, in their view, discriminated against them.
The Court held that there had been a violation of Article 14 (prohibition of discrimination) taken together with Article 8 (right to respect for private and family life) of the Convention. It remarked in particular that, of the 19 States parties to the Convention which authorised some form of registered partnership other than marriage, Lithuania and Greece were the only ones to reserve it exclusively to different- sex couples. It found that the Greek State had not shown it to have been necessary, in pursuit of the legitimate aims invoked by the law introducing civil unions, to bar same- sex couples from entering into such unions.
