Compromise on Discrimination
am 02.07.2006 von http://www.recht.us/amlaw
CK - Washington. On July 7, 2006, the Federal Council, Bundesrat, may approve the Diet-passed legislation to incorporate the EU antidiscrimination directives into German law. The Council had worked with the Diet on a compromise after it critized the initial draft as partially overbroad and partially too narrow.
The Berlin Department of Justice announced in a June 29, 2006 press release that the bill had passed the …
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