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intended for social use. These houses had high levels of degradation and for that reason the local council decided to sell the land and ensure sanitary living conditions to the tenants. Through decision no. 162 of 11.03.2008, the Committee decided that the acts that aimed to evict the petitioner and the members of her family are not discrimination deeds. As regards the statements invoked, it was set down that these are offensive and they could offend dignity, being tightly related to the ethnic origin of the petitioner. The Committee ascertained that the statements are discriminatory (harassment) and it decided to sanction the defendant by warning (art. 2 par. 5 of G.O. no. 137/2000 on the prevention and sanctioning of all forms of discrimination, republished).

174.      Access to goods and services. Prohibition. Instruction to discriminate. Ethnical origin. Roma. H.C. complained
about the prohibition of the access of Roma to an internet cafe. The petitioner showed that at the entry to the place was
posted a notice which specified as follows: "Starting from the date of (...)Roma have no access to this internet cafe because
we had many problems with them, every night they create scandals and beat (…)”. The Committee set down that through the
said notice was carried out a differentiated treatment based on ethnic origin, displayed in the public, by posting at the entry
in the space designed for the general public of the instruction of not allowing access of persons of Roma origin. Through
decision no. 180 of 18.02.2008, the Committee decided that the notified deeds are direct discrimination and instruction to
discriminate and it applied the sanction of fine amounting to 600 RON to the defendant (art. 2 par. 1 and 2 in conjunction
with art. 14 of G.O. no. 137/2000, on the prevention and sanctioning of all forms of discrimination, republished).

175.       Press article. Statements. National origin. Jews. Personal dignity. Liga Pro Europa complained about the
publishing of certain articles and cartoons in the number 8/2007 of the weekly magazine Európai Idö, by which is offended
the right to personal dignity of the Jew community. The Committee set down that although the articles dealt with matters of
general interest, they concerned the Hebrew community as a whole, blamed for the historical sufferings of the Hungarian
nation, in conjunction with denial of the Holocaust and of methods used to exterminate the Jews. The characterization of the
Jew minority such as „parasitism, greed, disgusting, domination, contempt, parasite fungus” for which the solution would be
to retain it in its own state offend its dignity. Through decision no. 208 of 20.02.2008, the Committee decided that the deeds
notified in the article "Who are the real anti-Semitic" are acts of discrimination (harassment) and to sanction the author by
warning (art. 2 par. 5 of G.O. no. 137/2000 on the prevention and sanctioning of all forms of discrimination, republished).

176.     Education. Statements. Ethnic origin. Roma. Personal dignity. Asociaţia Roma ACCESS Tomis Constanţa complained
about the fact that the pupils of VIth class within the I.N.R. High School were addressed comments regarding their ethnic origin
by teachers. Thus, it is shown that they were told: "Get into the classroom, filthy Gypsy who stank the hall. Close the door and the
window so that you don't stink others and you die and we get rid of you because we had enough". The defendant denied the
charged statements. As a result of investigations and evidence submitted at the file, through decision no. 298bis of 27.05.2008,
the Committee ascertained that the notified deeds are discrimination and they breach the right to dignity of Roma persons and
it decided sanctioning by warning (art. 2 par. 1 and par. 4, art. 15 of G.O. no. 137/2000, republished).

177.      Education. Segregation. Ethnic origin. Roma. NCCD was self-notified as regards the separation of Roma origin
children from the majority ones in various educational structures (schools and kindergartens) in Satu Mare county. The
defendants did not dispute the fact that certain situations have led to de facto circumstances regarding Roma children. The
Committee set down that the effect of establishment of schools, classes or groups composed exclusively of Roma children,
their maintenance or compact displacement from one location to another, in the same ethnical composition gives rise to a
circumstance of different treatment in terms of a direct discrimination. In this case it was noted that the school institutions
made efforts to apply desegregation measures. They were unable to ignore the fact that the parents of Roma children, in
some cases have preferred the enrollment of pupils to educational institutions placed in the Roma communities, as opposed
to those established at significant distances from the community, to kindergartens with extended hours as opposed to those
with normal hours, because of the limited financial resources or to special groups, because of the distribution of a food
supplement for children. In the analysis of these cases, the best interest of the child and parents must be considered, given
the membership to the Roma minority concurrently with the principle of non-discrimination, in order to achieve a fair

balance between the interests of the school and those of children. Through decision no. 306 of 13.05.2008, the Committee ascertained that the separation de facto of Roma children in some schools is direct discrimination under art. 2 par. 1 of G.O. no. 137/2000 republished, but with reference to this situation it found that were drawn up and developed plans and measures of desegregation in order to ensure full equality of opportunities of Roma children in their access to education. Also, it was recommended endeavouring in order to prevent and eliminate school segregation (art. 2 par. 1 of G.O. no. 137/2000).

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