Over 10 years ago a major and unprecedented evolution occurred in the European Union with the adoption in 2000 of two pieces of EU legislation in the field of anti-discrimination: the Racial Equality Directive (2000/43/EC) and the Employment Equality Directive (2000/78/EC). The transposition and...

This Final Report presents the outcome of the “Evaluation of Commission’s cooperation with the Council of Europe (CoE)”. It was commissioned by the DG DEVCO Evaluation Unit and was implemented between December 2010 and July 2012. The evaluation provides an independent assessment of the...

The objective of this report is to compare and contrast anti-discrimination law in the 28 EU Member States and EU candidate countries (namely the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey), as comprehensively described in the annually updated country reports written by...

This report provides a general overview of the ways in which EU gender equality law has been implemented in the domestic laws of the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries) and four candidate countries (the Former Yugoslav Republic...

This report provides a general overview of the transposition of EU gender equality law in the 28 Member States of the European Union, as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (the EEA countries) and four candidate countries (the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and...

The evaluation of the Instrument for Pre-accession Assistance (IPA II), together with the other independent evaluations of each External Financing Instrument (EFI), that of the Common Implementing Regulation (CIR) and the Coherence Report, will be one of the sources of information to feed into...