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parents, grandparents, legal tutors who graduated from that high-school, have been or are teachers). The Steering board also states that such criteria are not necessary because they restrict access to education.

The Steering board Resolution no. 258/30.03.2016 (unanimously voted by all members attend- ing the meeting) decided to fine the high school with Lei 2,000 taking into account that this is a case of direct discrimination pursuant to the provisions of Art. 2 par. 1, corroborated to the provisions of Art. 11 par. 1 of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000. In what concerns the Inspectorate, the Steering board members unanimously acknowledge the fact of discrim- ination, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 2 par. 4 corroborated to the provisions of Art. 11 par. 1 of the GO 137/2000 on the prevention and punishment of all facts of discrimination, as republished, and imposes a contraventional fine of Lei 4,000 to the School Inspectorate. Defendant parties have also been obliged (unanimously voted by all members attending the meeting) to publish the summary of the present decision, excluding the personal data involved, on their Web sites and into a local newspaper.

16. Equal opportunity for access to housing The Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination opened an own investigation on the limitation of the rights of disabled people and people belonging to vulnerable social categories to access social housing as compared to other social categories, due to a different ranking. The Steering boardRomanian National Council for Combating Discrimination’s Steering board notes that the access of disabled to social housing is limited as compared to other social categories. Thus, the Steering board notes that criterion no. 4 “disabled people” grants only 4 points to people falling under this category as compared to 15 points granted to people falling under criterion no. 7, “veterans and war widowers, revolutionaries as per Law 341/2004 modified and amended, war crippled, former political prisoners and their heirs” or to people with higher education (10 points). The Steering board notes that, in this case, the defendant limits also the equal access to social housing of the people in vulnerable groups.

The defendant did not reverse the burden of proof.

The Steering board Resolution no. 349/04.05.2016 (unanimously voted by all members attending the meeting) decided to fine the Mayor of Bucharest with a contraventional fine of Lei 10,000 taking into account that this is a fact of discrimination pursuant to the provi- sions of Art. 2 par. 1 and par. 4, corroborated to the provisions of Art. 10 letters a) and h) of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000, as republished. It also requires the defendant to publish a summary of the decision in the media and recommends it to review the examined decision in the sense of increasing the points number for the above-mentioned categories. A six-months monitoring period was started.

17. The daily school program difference Solicitors U.M. and U.D. notify the Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimi- nation of the existence of a difference in the daily program between three classes XI (same year of study) - morning program for the two bilingual (Spanish studies) XI classes (whose students attended gymnasium within the high school) and afternoon program for the one non-bilingual (students coming from other schools).

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