Sentences with phrase «principle of equal treatment under»

Today's vote is a major step forward for the American principle of equal treatment under the law,» said PPFA President Cecile Richards.

Not exact matches

78 However, the absence of such an autonomous and uniform definition under European Union law of the concepts of social security, social assistance and social protection and the reference to national law in Article 11 (1)(d) of Directive 2003/109 concerning those concepts do not mean that the Member States may undermine the effectiveness of Directive 2003/109 when applying the principle of equal treatment provided for in that provision.

The question the Court needed to answer here was, firstly, whether housing benefits fall under the concept of social security and social protection, and secondly, whether the Italian authorities could limit the principle of equal treatment to «core benefits» of the social security system in such a way that it would exclude housing benefits.

The landmark judgment, P v Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis [2017] UKSC 65, concerns the directly eff ective right of police offi cers under EU law to have the principle of equal treatment in relation to employment and working conditions applied to their circumstances.

39 Under Article 2 of the Directive, the «principle of equal treatment» is to mean that there shall be no direct or indirect discrimination whatsoever on any of the grounds referred to in Article 1 of that directive.

Thus, as the Commission has rightly pointed out, the very wording of Article 24 (2) of that directive shows that it is only during the first three months of residence that, by way of derogation from the principle of equal treatment set out in Article 24 (1), the host Member State is not to be under an obligation to confer entitlement to social assistance on Union citizens who do not or no longer have worker status.

Finally, respect for human rights obligations, especially the right of indigenous communities «to practice and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs» [74] and to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice [75], calls for the development of principles which address the unique evidentiary issues involved in native title litigation, including the reality of claims based substantially upon orally - transmitted traditions, the lack of written records of indigenous laws and customs, the «unsceptical» receipt of uncorroborated historical evidence incapable of being tested under cross-examination, and the epistemological, ideological and cultural limitations of historical assessments of traditional laws and customs by non-indigenous commentators.