Latvia is a parliamentary State, where Parliament is the only legislator. This legislator, however, has the right to delegate legislative functions to the Cabinet of Ministers and to municipalities. Delegated legislative powers always have to be made explicit in the laws adopted by Parliament....

Croatia is a unitary and indivisible democratic and welfare state (Article 1 of the Constitution). The Croatian legal system is a civil law system and the government is organised according to the principle of the separation of powers into legislative, executive and judicial branches, but is also...

The principle of equality is recognised by the Belgian Constitution in Articles 10 (equality of women and men), 11 (equality of Belgian citizens without discrimination) and 11bis (promotion of equal access to elective and public mandates). Under Belgium's federal structure, policy competences...

Austria is a federal republic. Its legislation is based on the constitutional principles of the Federal Constitutional Act (Bundes-Verfassungsgesetz) and additional constitutional legislation which can be found in a variety of legal sources. Apart from this, there are state constitutional acts...

The Portuguese legal system is mainly a statutory law system, headed by the Portuguese Constitution (PC) and developed by state legislation. Where employment and industrial relations are concerned, the Labour Code (LC) is the essential statutory piece of legislation and it also integrates the...

Important changes to the Law on Protection from Domestic Violence have been made to address the problem of domestic violence as gender-based violence as part of the policy on gender equality. Although adopted since August 2023, the main bulk of the amendments entered into force on 1 January...