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of social services to the disabled to NGOs and establishes the same set of authorization stan- dards as in the case of public institutions and also notes that this does not give the authorities the right to underfinance (10 times lower) services per person per month.

The Steering board Resolution no. 576/14.09.2016 noted that differentiated state financing of private social services as compared to the public ones, effecting in the breach of the right to equal opportunity access to social services is a fact of discrimination pursuant to the provisions of Art. 2 par. 1, Art. 2 par. 4, Art. 10 letter h) corroborated to Art. 15 of the Government Ordi- nance no. 137/2000 republished and ruled (by the unanimous vote of all members attending the meeting) to impose a contraventional fine of Lei 7,000 to the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Protection and Elderly and a contraventional fine to the Government of Romania via the Government General Secretariat.

20. Discrimination of employees over trade-union membership The petitioner reports that the members of the trade union, employees of the defendant company, are discriminated against by the management over their union membership.

After analysing the situation, the Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination Steering board notes that the defendant limits the right to join a trade-union and the access to facilities granted by a union, and that members of the complainant union are harassed at the workplace by such actions.

The Steering board Resolution no. 577/14.09.2016 noted that limiting the right to join a union and access to facilities granted by a union, as well as the harassment of the complainant union members at work is a fact of discrimination pursuant to the provisions of Art. 2 par. 1, par. 4, Art. 2 par. 5, corroborated to Art. 7 f) of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000, republished, and imposed on the defendant, S.T.A.S. S.A., a contraventional fine of Lei 5,000 pursuant to the provisions of Art. 26 par. 1 of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000 together with the obligation of publishing a summary of the present decision in the media.

21. The refusal of registering a petition not written in Romanian and the refusal of a police officer to communicate with the petitioner in a language other than Romanian The petitioner’s notification refers to a case of discrimination on language gounds, the com- plainant being refused the registration of a petition and communication in a language other than Romanian.

After analysing the situation, the Steering board of the Romanian National Council for Combating Discrimination notes that by refusing to register the petition and communicate in a language other than Romanian, including Hungarian as requested by the petitioner, the defendant parties breached the petitioner’s right to file petitions with public institutions and authorities. The right to file a petition is a fundamental (indestructible) right, the equality principle, privilege exclusions and anti-discrimination being guaranteed by the law. Upon the analysis of the defendant’s fact of discrimination, the Steering board took into account that,

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