The Race and Framework Directives
This table illustrates the current state of play regarding the ‘hierarchy of discrimination grounds’. It gives an overview of the grounds on which discrimination is prohibited under EU Law and the fields in which this prohibition applies.
The table includes seven columns and five lines.
On the first line the six grounds are enumerated– meaning: race, religion, disability, age, sexual orientation, sex.
In the first column you can find the four fields: employment and vocational training, education, goods and services, social protection.
On the line concerning the field of employment and vocational training there is written “Yes” for all grounds of discrimination.
On the line concerning education, this is the case for race, whereas for the other grounds “No” is marked.
On the line on goods and services you can find “Yes” in the box for race and sex discrimination cases. In the boxes for the other grounds “No” is noted.
This is the same for social protection.
The boxes including “Yes” are coloured in grey.