Annex 1: main transposition and anti-discrimination legislation

AuthorJustesen, Pia
Pages103-104
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ANNEX 1: MAIN TRANSPOSITION AND ANTI-DISCRIMIN ATION LEGISLATION
Country: Denmark
Date: 31 December 2019
Title of the law: Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination in th e Labour Market
etc.
Date of adoption: 24 May 1996
Entry into force: 1 July 1996
Latest amendments: 1 January 2016
Web link: https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=179869
Grounds protected: Race, skin colour, religion or belief, political opinion, sexual
orientation, age, disability or national, social or ethnic origin
Civil law
Material scope: Employment
Principal content: Prohibition of direct and indirect discrimination, harassment,
instruction to discriminate
Title of the law: Act on Ethnic Equal Treatment
Date of adoption: 28 May 2003
Entry into force: 1 July 2003
Latest amendments: 1 January 2013
Web link: https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/r0710.aspx?id=141404
Grounds protected: Race and ethnic origin
Civil law
Material scope: Access to social protection, including social security and healthcare,
social advantages, education, access to and supply of goods and services, including
housing, and membership of and access to services from organisations whose memb ers
carry out a particular profession
Principal content: Prohibition of direct and indirect discrimination, harassment,
instruction to discriminate
Title of the law: Act on the Prohibition of Discrimination due to Race etc.
Date of adoption: 9 June 1971
Entry into force: 1 August 1971
Latest amendments: 31 May 2000
Web link: https://www.retsinformation.dk/forms/r0710.aspx?id=59249
Grounds protected: Race, skin colour, national or ethnic background, belief or sexual
orientation
Criminal law
Material scope: Provision of goods or services and access to public places or event s
Principal content: Direct discrimination (denial of services)
Title of the law: Act on the Board of Equal Treatment
Date of adoption: 27 May 2008
Entry into force: 1 January 2009
Latest amendments: 8 June 2018
Web link: https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=179851
Grounds covered: Gender, race, skin colour, religion or belief, political opinion, sexual
orientation, age, disability or national, social or ethnic origin
Civil law
Material scope:
- Within labour market: all protected discrimination grounds
- Outside labour market (access to social protection, including social security and
healthcare, social ad vantages, education, access to and supply of goods and
services, including housing, and membership of and access to services from
organisations whose m embers carry out a particular profession): g ender, disability,

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