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"We have abstained from voting on Amendment No 16 in order to support Amendment No 12 from our own group instead. We support the idea that registered partners should also be counted as family members but believe that this is provided for within the concept of ‘unmarried partners’. We should also like to see more Member States change their legislation so that it recognises registered partnerships for homosexuals and the circumstances in which they cohabit.
In applying the definition of family members, it is important however that the principle of subsidiarity should prevail. It is not appropriate for the European Parliament and the Council to change the Member States’ family legislation by means of a directive concerning asylum policy.
In Amendment No 12, we have therefore proposed that partners of the same sex should be recognised as family members if legislation or practice in the Member State that receives them entails unmarried couples, same-sex couples and married couples being treated in the same way."@en1
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