2021 Seminar – Keynote speech by Adam Bodnar, Beyond the mere enforcement of the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives, Gender-based violence against women, Pay transparency measures to tackle the Gender Pay Gap and more

The 2021 annual legal seminar of the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination (EELN) was organised as an online seminar, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It took place on Friday 26 November 2021 and for more information on the programme can be found here: Agenda 26 November 2021.

It brought together almost 200 representatives of the European Commission, EU Member State governments, equality bodies, EU umbrella organisations, academics from across Europe and members of the network itself. 

More information on the welcome and introduction part of this online legal seminar can be found here:

Welcome on behalf of the European Commission by Helena Dalli

Keynote speech from Adam Bodnar, Law professor at the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw, Poland: EU anti-discrimination laws in action: view from Poland

The workshops at this year’s seminar covered the following topics, mostly inspired by reports and other publications by the network in 2021:

Workshop – Update on European case law by Janneke Gerards and Colm O’Cinneide

Workshop – Beyond the mere enforcement of the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives by Romaniţa Iordache and Iustina Ionescu

Workshop – Gender-based violence against women by Sara De Vido and Lorena Sosa

Workshop – Pay transparency measures to tackle the Gender Pay Gap: Best practices and challenges in Belgium, Denmark and Iceland by Sara Benedí Lahuerta

Workshop – Directive 2004/113/EC: a forgotten Directive? by Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella

More information on the closing part of this online legal seminar can be found here:

Closing session Linda Senden on behalf of the Gender Equality Network and Irena Moozova on behalf of the European Commission