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Legal developments

Romania - High Court confirms rejection of the action of ACCEPT in the case based on CJEU C-81/12 (PDF 97 kB)

Discriminatory statements regarding the prohibition to recruit homosexual players in football club made by the person know publicly as owner, discrimination in employment, warning as effective remedy

Date: 3 February 2016. Topics
Romania - New draft bill for the amendment of the Anti-discrimination Law is reviewed by the Parliament (PDF 74 kB)

Proposed amendments defining the following concepts: human dignity, tolerance, social group, social defamation, incitement to hatred, and social discrimination. Proposed measures to promote tolerance and combat discrimination in education, continuing professional development of teachers, of civil servants, and awareness raising through media. Proposed new institutional mechanisms for promoting human dignity and tolerance

Date: 3 December 2015. Topics
Romania - Court of Appeal Bucharest issues unprecedented decision on duty to ensure accessibility of taxis for persons using wheel chairs (PDF 78 kB)

Duty of taxi companies to ensure means of transportation for persons using wheel chairs which cannot be packed

Date: 3 December 2015. Topics
Romania - Report on attitudes and perceptions regarding discrimination in Romania released by the national equality body (PDF 115 kB)

Annual survey released by the national equality body shows trends in attitudes and perceptions regarding discrimination

Date: 29 September 2015. Topics
Romania - Proposed amendments to the Anti-discrimination Law (PDF 169 kB)
Proposed amendments on “disposition to discriminate”, indirect discrimination, multiple discrimination, discrimination by association, psychological harassment, justifications accepted in discriminating and status of magistrates for the members of the Steering Board of the NCCD
Date: 5 June 2015. Topics
Romania - Aggressive campaign targeting disabilities activist protected as free speech (PDF 261 kB)
National equality body rejects discrimination complaint filed by disabilities NGO attacked in media, defining the campaign as free speech
Date: 5 June 2015. Topics
Romania - NGOs complain against sex segregation by the Ministry of National Defence (PDF 72 kB)

Are determining occupational requirements for military professions legitimate and proportional justifications forsex-segregated recruitment, and for the significantly lower number of places for women than for men in the higher military education?

Date: 8 May 2015. Topics
Romania - Parliament appoints 6 new members in the national equality body amid controversies (PDF 238 kB)
Legal procedures for appointment of NCCD members are not observed
Date: 24 April 2015. Topics
Romania - Protection from dismissal of women returning from parental leave (PDF 76 kB)

The dismissal of women returning from parental leave is forbidden by Romanian law, but what evidence is needed.  to establish prima faciae discrimination on the ground of sex and maternity status in these cases?

Date: 16 April 2015. Topics
Romania - Measures to secure accessibility to communication services by persons with disabilities (PDF 243 kB)
Accessibility of electronic communications
Date: 16 April 2015. Topics
Romania - National equality body sanctions World Class for discriminatory denial of access to services for a homoparental family (PDF 246 kB)
Denial of access to fitness facilities to homoparental or monoparental families
Date: 16 April 2015. Topics
Romania - Roma Strategy adopted for 2015-2020 (PDF 171 kB)
Romanian Government adopts a new Strategy for the Inclusion of the Romanian Citizens of Roma Ethnicity for 2015-2020
Date: 6 March 2015. Topics
Romania - Report on access to justice for Roma and other vulnerable groups published by the Superior Council of Magistracy (PDF 232 kB)
Feasibility study on the access to justice for Roma and other groups
Date: 6 March 2015. Topics
Romania - High Court of Cassation and Justice strikes NCCD decision on genuine and determining occupational requirements (PDF 52 kB)
Genuine and determining occupational requirements regarding linguistic abilities of civil servants in locality with a large Hungarian minority
Date: 20 January 2015. Topics
Romania - Court of Appeal Bucuresti maintains decision of the Romanian national equality body fining the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma (PDF 59 kB)
Court confirms NCCD decision to fine the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma
Date: 20 January 2015. Topics
Romania - Courts of Appeal confirm NCCD decision sanctioning 39 mayors for failure to ensure accessibility of public transportation (PDF 62 kB)
Failure to ensure accessibility to public transportation for persons with disabilities
Date: 20 January 2015. Topics
Romania - Report of Commissioner for Human Rights of the Council of Europe following visit in Romania released (PDF 47 kB)
Concerns regarding treatment of Roma, persons with disabilities and other vulnerable groups mentioned in report released following country visit
Date: 16 September 2014. Topics
Romania - Constanta Court of Appeal holds local authorities responsible for housing of Roma community evicted in 2006 (PDF 69 kB)

Liability of local authorities for housing conditions in case of 2006 eviction of Roma community

Date: 14 August 2014. Topics
Romania - High Court finds that the national equality body was wrong when declining competence in case of police discriminatory conduct on grounds of presumed sexual orientation (PDF 91 kB)
National equality body declined competence claiming that the police as hierarchical structure has its own mechanisms to assess discrimination
Date: 14 August 2014. Topics
Romania - ECRI published its fourth report on Romania (PDF 53kB)
Progress and outstanding issues highlighted by ECRI
Date: 27 June 2014. Topics
Romania - National equality body sanctions 39 mayors of main cities in the country for failure to ensure accessibility in an ex officio case (PDF 57kB)
Failure to ensure accessibility to public transportation for persons with disabilities
Date: 27 June 2014. Topics
Romania - High Court published its decision rejecting final appeal of the Baia Mare mayor who challenged the NCCD sanction of the segregation wall erected in the city (62kB)
Appeal against national equality body sanctioning of a wall segregating Roma blocks of flats from Baia Mare
Date: 20 June 2014. Topics
Romania - Romanian national equality body publishes its 2013 annual report (57kB)
The National Council on Combating Discrimination finalized its activity report including statistical data analysing its activity in 2013
Date: 20 June 2014. Topics
Romania - Bucharest Court of Appeal rejection of the action of ACCEPT in the case based on CJEU C-81/12 (PDF 72 kB)
Discriminatory statements regarding prohibition to recruit in football club made by the person know publicly as owner, discrimination in employment, warning as effective remedy
Date: 7 March 2014. Topics
Romania - Romanian national equality body fines the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma (PDF 63 kB)
NCCD forced by the High Court to fine the Romanian President for discriminatory statements against nomadic Roma after the NCCD initially declined its competence on grounds of lacking jurisdiction
Date: 7 March 2014. Topics
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