Act on Ethnic Equal Treatment 2003

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3.(1) No person may subject another person to direct or indirect discrimination on grounds of the latter’s or a third party’s racial or ethnic origin.(2) Direct discrimination shall be taken to occur where one person is treated less favourably than another is, has been or would be treated in a comparable situation on grounds of racial or ethnic origin.(3) Indirect discrimination shall be taken to occur where an apparently neutral provision, criterionor practice would put persons of a particular racial or ethnic origin at a disadvantage compared with other persons, unless that provision, criterion or practice is objectively justified by a legitimate aim and the means of achieving that aim are appropriate and necessary. (4) Harassment shall be deemed to be discrimination when a conduct related to racial or ethnic origin takes place with the purpose or effect of violating the dignity of a person and of creating an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating or offensive environment for the person concerned.(5) An instruction to discriminate against persons on grounds of racial or ethnic origin shall be deemed to be discrimination.4.(1) This Act shall not prevent the maintenance or adoption of specific measures to prevent or compensate for disadvantages linked to racial or ethnic origin.(2) Specific measures taken in pursuance of subsection (1) may only be maintained until the objective of such measures has been achieved.