The move follows a landmark March ruling by Poland's Supreme Administrative Court (NSA), which ordered Warsaw's civil registry office to enter into the national records the marriage of two Polish men who wed in Germany in 2018. The decision came after the Court of Justice of the European Union ruled in November 2025 that Poland must recognize same-sex marriages legally performed elsewhere in the EU. The recognition of the first same-sex marriage has emerged from years of judicial proceedings spearheaded by private individuals in a process separate from top-down administrative efforts that has effectively forced the hand of the Warsaw government, which has stalled on LGBT+ reforms due to divisions within the ruling camp. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday that “the state has failed this test for many years” and urged ministers to finalize a regulation as quickly as possible to standardize the transcription process nationwide. “I hope that after the ruling of the (European Union) court and the Supreme Administrative Court, we will also find swift and necessary legislative solutions in parliament,” Tusk said. At the same time, he said that recognition of foreign same-sex marriages “is in no way a path to the possibility of adoption.”