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Monitoring period: January - December , 2016 148 articles that were monitored refer to NCCD activity

National publications that were subject to monitoring: Adevărul, Cotidianul, Cronica Română, Curentul, Curierul Naţional, Evenimentul Zilei, Gazeta Sporturilor, Gândul, HotNews, Jurnalul Naţional, Mediafax, Prosport, România Liberă, Ziare.com.

NCCD was most often mentioned in the following publications: Adevărul, HotNews, Medi- afax, România Liberă, Gândul.

The main articles in the newspapers, during the monitoring activity, which referred to the penalties issued by NCCD:

  ■■       The fact of punishing pupils for not wearing an uniform in a form of indirect
           discrimination
           The National council for Combating Discrimination decided that any punishment for
           pupils not wearing a school uniform, such as a low degree in behaviour or unmotivated
           absence, is indirect discrimination, despite the fact that the school in-house regu-
           lations may require pupils to wear an uniform. The school in question was fined by
           1000 lei and was issued the recommendation to revise its in-house rules and remove
           the discriminatory measures.

  ■■       A bank fined over refusal to release a card based on the digital print.
           NCCD Steering board ordered a 70,000 lei fine on a bank that refused to issue to a
           person suffering from a walking disability a card based on the print as signature.
           According to NCCD, the refusal to issue a bank card under those circumstances is
           an act of discrimination. NCCD recommended the bank to establish procedures for
           people with walking disabilities, allowing them to use the print as signature.

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