The European Commission (EC) has expressed The regret that the amendment to the Constitution of the Slovak Republic does not take into account its concerns. These were mainly about how the proposed changes to Article Seven are related to EU law. She also added that although The regulation of substantive issues of family law remains the privilege of Member StatesTheir implementation should not jeopardize the basic principle of EU law relating to non -discrimination. This was stated for TASR by Katarína Touquet Jaremová from the Representation of the European Commission in Slovakia.