# Italy makes surrogacy an extra-territorial offence

Date: 2024

## The fact

In October 2024 Parliament approved a law making surrogacy a universal offence even when the act is performed abroad by Italian citizens.

## Context

FdI had campaigned on the ban. [Meloni](/people/mig-giorgia-meloni) is the political principal of the majority. Courts still hear cases. She did not sit as every prosecutor.

The 2023 same-sex parenting circulars are neighbouring earlier family-status instruments.

The President of the Council of Ministers of Italy heads the government. Parliament writes statutes; the President of the Republic promulgates; regions and ministries implement; courts can stay a decree. A premier can decree, sign protocols, and take an oath. She does not write a Council regulation in Brussels, an Albanian constitutional-court judgment, or a G7 communique by herself.

## Evidence and sources

Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [protection of minority rights](/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights) and reproductive access: a completed extra-territorial criminalisation is a dated family-formation cost for some couples.

## What is established and what is not

Established: a 2024 Italian statute making surrogacy an offence even when performed abroad by Italian citizens.

Not established: a unique later birth coefficient, or that every intended parent was prosecuted that week.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Parliament voted. Prosecutors still have to charge. Courts hear.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Italy makes surrogacy an extra-territorial offence, not a later speech about Italy makes surrogacy an extra-territorial offence.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Italy makes surrogacy an extra-territorial offence on 2024-10-16 is not a licence to treat every later Gazzetta Ufficiale della Repubblica Italiana communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor decree exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Italy makes surrogacy an extra-territorial offence into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Her majority passed the bill. Parliament voted. Prosecutors still have to charge. Courts hear. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. The Chamber, the Senate, the Quirinale, the League, [Forza Italia](/organizations/forza-italia), prefects, and foreign counterparties share specific files. Allegation is not a completed judgment. An Albanian court stay is not a criminal conviction. A decree-law is not a unique CPI coefficient. A G7 chairmanship is not a delivered emissions path.

## People

- Giorgia Meloni: https://factrail.ai/people/giorgia-meloni

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/italy-makes-surrogacy-crime-even-if-carried-out-abroad-2024-10-16/
- https://www.gazzettaufficiale.it/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/it-surrogacy-universal-ban-2024