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Saatja: Tiiu Noobel <[email protected]> Saadetud: 11.11.2021 15:10 Adressaat: Agni Aav <[email protected]>; SM Info <[email protected]> Koopia: Kati Keel <[email protected]>; Thea Treier Brüsselis <[email protected]>; Raili Lillemets <[email protected]> Teema: FW: EE - invitation to a legal seminar on gender equality and non- discrimination - 26 November 2021 - online ** Reminder ** Tere! Edastan! Vastamise tähtaeg on 18.11. Heade soovidega Tiiu Noobel SecretaryPermanent Representation of Estonia to the European Union +32 2227 4337, |Rue Guimard 11/13 1040 Brussels From: [email protected] <JUST-D-LEGAL- [email protected]> Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2021 1:49 PMTo: Esindus EL juures üldaadress <[email protected]>Cc: JUST-D-LEGAL- [email protected]; 'Council' <[email protected]>; Thea Treier <[email protected]>; Kati Keel <[email protected]>; Tiiu Noobel <[email protected]>Subject: EE - invitation to a legal seminar on gender equality and non-discrimination - 26 November 2021 - online ** Reminder ** Excellency, In cooperation with the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, the European Commission is organising its annual legal seminar on Friday 26 November 2021. This year the seminar will take place online. It is intended to update participants on recent developments, to discuss reports issued by the network and to give people working in these areas a chance to meet and exchange views and best practices. The event will bring together representatives of national governments, national equality bodies, experts from the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non-discrimination, representatives of NGOs, Commission officials and a number of high level academics. Please find attached the invitation letter from Ms Salla Saastamoinen, Acting General Director of DG Justice and Consumers inviting your country to nominate representatives. Yours faithfully, JUST D Legal Network Secretariat European CommissionDirectorate-General for Justice & Consumers (DG JUST) Directorate D Equality and Union citizenship Rue du Luxembourg, 40B-1049 Brussels/Belgium Q Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail Ref. Ares(2021)6203975 - 12/10/2021 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE AND CONSUMERS Directorate D: Equality and Union Citizenship Online legal seminar on non-discrimination and gender equality Friday 26 November 2021 09:15 Connecting and getting familiar with the online set-up 10:00 – 10:15 Welcome and introduction Chair: Isabelle Chopin – Specialist coordinator non-discrimination law, director of the Migration Policy Group (MPG) European Commission 10:15 – 11:00 Keynote speech 10:15 – 10:45 Adam Bodnar, Law professor at University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Poland 10:45 – 11:00 Questions and answers – discussion 11:00 – 11:10 Coffee break 11:10 – 12:30 Morning workshop sessions1 (separate online rooms) 11:10 – 11:45 Presentations by speakers 11:45 – 12:30 Discussion 12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break 14:00 – 15:30 Afternoon workshop sessions (separate online rooms) 14:00 – 14:45 Presentations by speakers 14:45 – 15:30 Discussion 15:30 – 16:00 Closing session Chair: Linda Senden – Specialist coordinator for gender equality law, professor of EU law Utrecht University European Commission 1 Workshop 4 on the pay transparency measures will only be given in the morning, workshop 6 on gender equality in goods and services will only be given in the afternoon. Page 1 of 3 Workshop sessions Workshop 1 – Update on European case law The workshop will discuss recent developments in the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights in the field of non- discrimination and gender equality, referring specifically to recent important judgments and their impact on national equality and anti-discrimination legislation. Chair/moderators: To be decided Speaker: Colm O’Cinneide – Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at University College London (UCL) Workshop 2 – Promising practices in the effective enforcement of the RED and EED This workshop will present, draw from and discuss the findings of the forthcoming thematic report on Promising practices in the enforcement of the Racial Equality and Employment Equality Directives. The report reviewed encouraging norms, practices and policies across the 27 EU Member States and 3 EFTA countries, focusing in particular on those that go beyond the standard requirements of the directives and feature a victim-centred and future-oriented approach. The speakers, authors of the report, Romaniţa Iordache and Iustina Ionescu, will present a wide array of promising practices to the participants of the workshop, who will be invited to discuss these as well as other positive elements of enforcement. Particularly encouraging and unexpected practices reported by the national experts to the authors will also be explored, relating to issues such as tackling artificial intelligence, realising the added value of equality data or undertaking equality and non- discrimination as a transversal duty. Chair/moderator: To be decided Speakers: Romaniţa Iordache – Human rights researcher, Romania Iustina Ionescu – Human rights lawyer, Romania Workshop 3 – Gender-based violence against women The basis for this workshop is the thematic report written for the network by Sara De Vido and Lorena Sosa. Their report on Violence against women (VAW), including ICT-facilitated violence, is a pressing issue at the international and European level. The COVID-19 pandemic has further exacerbated already existing patterns of discrimination against women and caused an increase in several forms of violence. At the international level, VAW is recognised as a violation of human rights and as a form of gender-based discrimination against women. VAW is the result of the unequal balance of power between women and men, and is both a cause and a consequence of gender inequality. Chair/moderator: To be decided Speakers: Sara De Vido – Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy Lorena Sosa – Utrecht University, Netherlands Workshop 4 – Pay transparency measures (morning only) In the light of the persisting Gender Pay Gap and the widespread understanding that gender pay discrimination is unacceptable, yet very common, a relatively large number of jurisdictions have introduced pay transparency measures as a regulatory strategy to reduce the GPG as part of a broader policy mix. This workshop will mainly look at measures Page 2 of 3 aimed at disclosing pay information to different groups of stakeholders to identify the sources of inequity and advance towards gender pay equity. The basis for the workshop is an article of the Law Review 2021/1 written for the network by Sara Benedí Lahuerta. This article compares pay transparency measures to tackle the Gender Pay Gap in Belgium, Denmark and Iceland, discussing best practices (e.g. gender-neutral job evaluation systems; involving the social partners) and challenges (e.g. dealing with the disclosure of sensitive personal data, difficulties for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs)). Chair/moderator: To be decided Speaker: Sara Benedí Lahuerta – Assistant professor Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin (UCD) Workshop 5 – Independent assistance to victims’ provided by equality bodies While EU law requires the Member States to establish equality bodies with a mandate to, inter alia, ‘provide independent assistance to victims of discrimination’, this specific mandate takes a wide variety of forms across the EU, leading to very different levels and types of assistance provided to victims. The workshop will discuss, analyse and compare these different independent assistance competences of national equality bodies, on the basis notably of European standards such as the 2018 European Commission Recommendation on standards for equality bodies and the ECRI General Policy Recommendation No. 2 on equality bodies, from 2017. The speaker Niall Crowley will draw from his article on this topic in the European equality law review Issue 2021/1, which compared the competences of the national equality bodies in Belgium, Croatia and Estonia to provide independent assistance to victims of discrimination. Chair/moderator: To be decided Speaker: Niall Crowley – Equality and human rights expert, Ireland Workshop 6 – Gender equality in goods and services (afternoon only) This presentation will introduce and explore the findings of a thematic report on Directive 2004/113/EC – ‘In search of the potential of the forgotten Directive.’ This was the first instrument that extended the principle of gender equality beyond the workplace to everyday areas of life. It was prompted by the belief that, although progress had been made in the pursuit of gender equality, discrimination based on sex continued to occur in many areas of life. As such, the Directive was intended to be a crucial tool to ensure the full achievement of gender equality. Chair/moderator: To be decided Speaker: Eugenia Caracciolo di Torella – Associate professor, Leicester Law School Page 3 of 3 Ref. Ares(2021)6203975 - 12/10/2021 EUROPEAN COMMISSION DIRECTORATE-GENERAL JUSTICE and CONSUMERS Acting Director-General Brussels, JUST/D2/KV/SLX just.d.2(2021)6864605 Subject: Invitation to an online legal seminar on gender equality and anti- discrimination law – Friday 26 November 2021 Excellency, In cooperation with the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non- discrimination, the European Commission is organising its annual legal seminar on Friday 26 November 2021. This year the seminar will take place online. It is intended to update participants on recent developments, to discuss reports issued by the network and to give people working in these areas a chance to meet and exchange views and best practices. The event will bring together representatives of national governments, national equality bodies, experts from the European network of legal experts in gender equality and non- discrimination, representatives of NGOs, Commission officials and a number of high level academics. In addition to the plenary sessions, there will be workshops on the following topics (a draft agenda is also enclosed): 1. Update on European case law 2. Promising practices in the effective enforcement of the RED and EED 3. Gender-based violence against women 4. Pay transparency measures (morning only) 5. Independent assistance to victims’ provided by equality bodies 6. Gender equality in goods and services (afternoon only) This year, as the seminar is online, we will restrict the number of participants to ensure lively online discussions during the workshops. Therefore, we invite you to select maximum two representatives, one from your relevant ministries and one from the equality body or bodies in your country, which deal with anti-discrimination and gender equality. Given the subject matter of the seminar, it would be preferable for your representatives to be lawyers and/or experts in anti-discrimination and/or equality law. His Excellency Ambassador Aivo ORAV Permanent Representative of Estonia to the European Union Rue Guimard, 11-13 B-1040 Brussels Commission européenne, B-1049 Bruxelles / Europese Commissie, B-1049 Brussel - Belgium  I should be grateful if the representatives from your country could register to this event at https://www.humanconsultancyevents.com/ls2021 by 18 November 2020 at the latest. Should you wish to contact us for any query, please address just-d-legal- [email protected]. Yours faithfully, [e-signed] Salla SAASTAMOINEN Annex: Draft agenda Electronically signed on 11/10/2021 17:30 (UTC+02) in accordance with article 11 of Commission Decision C(2020) 4482 2