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The article concerns the works of the Comission of European Family Law (CEFL) in the field of parental responsibility. The article presents the history, structure, mission and the undertakings of the CEFL. It explains shortly CEFL’s main objective, which is the creation of European Family Law Principles and the methodology of their elaboration. The second set of CEFL Principles regarding parental responsibility is presented in details. These principles are compared with the law in force in Poland in order to find any common features or visible differences. The article is supplemented with the publication of the CEFL principles regarding parental responsibility in all authentic languages (English, German, French) and their translation into Polish.