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positive action as defined by EU Directives on equal treatment. The research will try and guide the current practices and the measures that have been implemented.

The use of positive tasks (such as wage audits or equality audits of mandatory plans) and the equality fees (like, for instance, a fee for all the public sector organizations to take into account the equality in all their positions) has become more important over the past years.

The Equinet WG study is to be conducted by each member of the group for the required research, considering the already existing cases at national level in this respect. In addition, each member will examine the advantages, the challenges and any potential shortcomings of positive and equality fees. This is to be followed by a review of best practices and com- parisons among the various existing systems.

The study will close with recommendations aimed at giving ideas to the equality promoting bodies to use and disseminate those instruments.

In April, Equinet organized in Vienna, Austria, the seminar “Accessibility and reason- able accommodation”, an event that was attended, in addition to the NCCD, by 45 members from the staff of the equality bodies with attributions in the resolution of problems involving the accessibility and reasonable accommodation.

The seminar’s agenda allowed the participation of professionals from various professional environments, including experts in domestic and foreign policy communication.

The seminar took stock of experiences of equality bodies with accessibility and reasonable accommodation issues. It built on the previous Equinet experience in this area, in particular from the viewpoint of the 2014 Report on the “Role of equality bodies in promoting equality of people with disabilities.”

The Report will be prepared after the seminar and will be the basis for supporting the revision of the 2010 – 2020 European Union Strategy for disabled persons and the 2013 Best Practice Guide.

The European Commission representative requested that the equality bodies support the other domestic institutions, by providing best practice examples, to allow appropriate adjustments for the people with disabilities.

In November, Equinet organized the Seminar “Fighting discrimination on grounds of race & ethnic origin” (,,Lupta împotriva discriminării pe criteriile de rasă și etnie”) in Budapest, Hungary; NCCD was represented by its Legal Department.

The seminar aimed to:

• • Offer a platform to discuss good practices and promising tools;

• • Discuss issues of multiple discrimination where race and ethnic origin intersect with

other grounds such as gender, religion or belief;

• • Build capacity among Equinet members to combat discrimination on the ground of race

and ethnic origin, including a focus on discrimination against Roma people.

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