Report on measures to combat dicrimination: directives 2000/43/EC and 2000/78/EC: country report: Belgium

This report has been drafted as part of a study into measures to combat discrimination in the EU Member States, funded by the European Community Action Programme to combat discrimination.The present report was completed on March 1st, 2007, prior to the adoption of four legislative bills proposed by the government, and formally submitted to the House of Representatives on 26 October 2006. These bills were prepared in order both to overcome the difficulties created by the judgment n° 157/2004 delivered by the Constitutional Court (Court of Arbitration) on 6 October 2004 (partially annulling the Federal Antidiscrimination Law of 25 February 20031), and to meet the concerns expressed by the European Commission in its correspondance with the Belgian authorities about the state of implementation of the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives.