07/12/2010 (Agence Europe) - Equal treatment irrespective of religion, belief, disability, age or sexual orientation. The Belgian Presidency opted for a targeted approach focusing on two areas: financial services and housing. The intention is to bring greater clarity to provisions relating to the legitimate age-based or handicap-based distinctions which are made in financial services (e.g. insurance, life assurance, loans, mortgages), and to draft more clearly the texts governing housing, for instance those relating to scope and to the meaning of “improvement”. The Presidency informed ministers of its choice. (G.B./transl.rt)