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Article 5- Justification of differences of treatment on grounds of age.
Certain differences of treatment based on age may be lawful, if they are justified by a legitimate aim and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary proportionality test.
This prohibition does not apply to differences of treatment based on nationality.
In the case of differences of treatment based on racial and ethnic origin, such cases will be highly exceptional.
Article 6 of the Directive provides, in certain situations,a justification for differences of treatment on grounds of age76.
Exceptions are permitted for differences of treatment if they are justified by a legitimate aim, and they are appropriate and necessary.
On the contrary,I cannot accept Amendment No 38 which proposes to delete from Article 5 the list of differences of treatment on grounds of age, which could be justified.
The directive does not prohibit differences of treatment based on sex which are covered by Articles 13 and 141 of the EC Treaty and related secondary legislation.
Taking into account the case law of the Court and the new proposal for a Directive based on Article 13 of the Treaty,the Article specifies to what extent differences of treatment are permitted.
For some measures this solution would create appreciable differences of treatment between ships without justification.
This Directive does not cover differences of treatment based on nationality and is without prejudice to provisions and conditions relating to the entry into and residence of third-country nationals and stateless persons in the territory of Member States, and to any treatment which arises from the legal status of the third-country nationals and stateless persons concerned.
The two Directives make it clear that the prohibition of discrimination also applies to nationals of third countries, butdoes not cover differences of treatment based on nationality, and is without prejudice to provisions governing entry and residence59.
The Commission concludes therefore that differences of treatment based on actuarial factors directly related to sex are not compatible with the principle of equal treatment and should be abolished.
Most cases concern the interpretation of Directive 2000/78/EC as regards discrimination on grounds of age, andin particular Article 6(1), which provides that differences of treatment based on age may be justified if there is a legitimate aim and the means used to achieve that aim are appropriate and necessary.
They shall in particular stress the need to ensure that differences of treatment based on nationality, religion or belief are not a disguised form of discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.
Based on similar provisions in national legislation(DK, IRL, NL, UK) and in the Equal Treatment Directive of 1976,Article 4 provides that differences of treatment based on racial or ethnic origin which are related to a genuine occupational qualification are not to be considered as discrimination.
It should be noted that the Directive does not prohibit differences of treatment based on nationality, which is dealt with by separate Articles of the Treaty(in particular Articles 12 and 39) and by existing secondary legislation.
To avoid inappropriate interpretations of the prohibition of discrimination,the article makes clear that the directive does not preclude differences of treatment when they are based on goods or services which are intended exclusively or primarily for members of one sex or the other or on skills which are practised differently for one sex or the other.
The Committee notes that the Directives do not prohibit differences of treatment based on nationality, which are dealt with by separate Articles of the Treaty,( Articles 12 and 39), and by existing secondary legislation.
While the proposal continues to allow differences of treatment on the grounds of age they have to be objectively justified.
I welcome the fact that one of the last remaining differences of treatment between citizens of the old and the new Union will disappear on 21 December of this year.
The article on information has been supplemented to tackle the problem of differences of treatment based on nationality, religion or belief being a disguised form of discrimination on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.
Notwithstanding paragraph 2,Member States may provide that differences of treatment on grounds of age shall not constitute discrimination, if, within the context of national law, they are justified by a legitimate aim, and if the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary.
It seeks to address direct as well as indirect discrimination,thus also covering unjustified differences of treatment on the basis of other distinguishing criteria which lead to the same result as the application of criteria directly based on customers' nationality, place of residence or place of establishment.
A difference of treatment may be justified where a characteristic related to racial or ethnic origin constitutes a genuine occupational qualification.
It would be otherwise only if the difference of treatment found to exist between the two categories of worker were justified by objective factors unrelated to any discrimination based on sex.
In this respect, there is a risk that such a difference of treatment between employees who essentially carried out the same duties would be considered by the Belgian courts as an illegal contractual construction.
By contrast, according to Article 3(2) thereof,that directive does not cover‘difference of treatment based on nationality.
Member States should be free to decide on the procedure as to how to pay any difference of treatment that has been determined, to shareholders and creditors.
Notwithstanding Article 2(1) and(2),Member States may provide that a difference of treatment which is based on a characteristic related to racial or ethnic origin shall not constitute discrimination where, by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out, such a characteristic constitutes a genuine occupational qualification.