Convention on the recognition of registered partnerships

Parties with reservations, declarations and objections

Party	Reservations / Declarations	Objections
Spain	Yes	No

Spain

04-08-2010

If the present Convention is applied to Gibraltar, Spain would like to make the following declaration:
1. Gibraltar is a non-self-governing territory for whose external relations the United Kingdom is responsible, and which is subject to a process of decolonisation by virtue of the relevant decisions and resolutions of the General Assembly of the United Nations.
2. The Gibraltar authorities have a local character and exercise exclusively domestic powers. These powers originated and are based on a distribution and allocation of powers performed by the United Kingdom in accordance with the provisions of its domestic legislation, as a sovereign state on which the aforesaid non-self-governing territory is dependent.
3. Consequently, any role that the Gibraltar authorities may play in applying the Convention should be considered to be restricted entirely to the sphere in which these authorities exercise their domestic powers, and may not be seen as modifying in any way the provisions of the two preceding paragraphs.
The procedure set out in the Agreed arrangements relating to Gibraltar authorities in the context of certain international treaties (2007), adopted by Spain and the United Kingdom on 19 December 2007, [...] is applicable to the present Convention.

18-10-2010

Declaration concerning article 16:
1. Article 16, paragraph 1 of the Convention provides that at the time of signature, acceptance, approval or accession, each State shall, if appropriate, designate the institutions under its law which correspond to the definition set out in article 1, which defines 'registered partnership' as 'a commitment to live together, other than a marriage, entered into by two persons of the same sex or different sex, giving rise to registration by a public authority'.
This definition corresponds to the institutions governed by the legislation of the various Autonomous Communities under several different appellations, among which stable cohabitation, partnerships or de facto relationships are the most common.
2. In accordance with article 16, paragraph 2 of the Convention, the authorities responsible for registering and/or accrediting stable cohabitation, partnerships or de facto relationships in their respective Autonomous Communities are the authorities empowered: (a) to issue the certificates referred to in article 9; (b) to send and receive the information provided for in article 10; (c) to translate the code numbers or decode certificates in accordance with the provisions of article 13, paragraph 4.