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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8669

19 March 2004
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) ep/equality
Prets report thinks gender as criteria for insurance premiums andpriivate pensions unacceptable

Brussels, 18/03/2004 (Agence Europe) - By adopting by 29 votes against 3 (consultation), the report by Austrian Social Democrat Christa Pets on the draft directive to implement the principle of equal treatment between men and women in access to goods and services, the Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities Committee at the EP have decided that "insurance premiums and pension contributions should not vary according to the gender of the customer". In a press statement the parliamentary...

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