On April 10, 2019, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Right released its first Advisory Opinion under the new Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights on “the recognition in domestic law of a legal parent-child relationship between a child born through a gestational surrogacy arrangement abroad and the intended mother.” Under Protocol No. 16, the “highest courts and tribunals” of state parties may request an Advisory Opinion on “questions of principle relating to the interpretation or application of the rights and freedoms defined in the Convention or the protocols thereto.” As noted in the press release, the matter concerns the recognition of parental rights of children born through surrogacy abroad in which France recognizes the legal rights of the biological father but not the intended mother. The Court determined that “States are not required to register the details of the birth certificate of a child born through gestational surrogacy abroad in order to establish the legal parent-child relationship with the intended mother: adoption may also serve as a means of recognising that relationship.”