Brussels, 01/06/2001 (Agence Europe) - The Hautala Report amending the 1976 directive on equal treatment for women and men (see yesterday's EUROPE, page 11) was the focus of a round table discussion, on 30 May in Brussels, whose participants included rapporteur Miet Smet (Christian Democrat, B), Fiorella Ghilardotti (Democratici di sinistra, I) and Geneviève Fraisse (GUE, F).
"Amendment of the 1976 directive is the most important thing in the history of this laboratory of equal opportunity...