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The Implementation of Gender Equality Principle in Social Security Insurance
Inga Vezmar Barlek
; Judge of the High Administrative Court of the Republic of Croatian
Abstract
The author outlines the basic ideas contained in the Directive 79/9 of 19 December 1978 on the progressive implementation of the gender equality principle in the field of social security and pension funds using the judgements of the European Court of Justice. The stipulations of the Directive are related and compared to certain problems of the Croatian social security and pension funds found in the Decision of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia No. U-I-1152/2000 of 18 April 2007. The purpose is to determine to which degree the judgements of the Croatian Constitutional Court follow the practice of the European Court of Justice. The author has concluded that the practice of the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia in implementing gender equality is compatible to the practice of the European Court of Justice and Directive 79/9, which in turn requires action from the Croatian Parliament.
Keywords
gender equality – Croatia; the principle of equality of rights; European Court of Justice; Constitutional Court of the Republic of Croatia; social security and pension funds
Hrčak ID:
135592
URI
Publication date:
5.3.2008.
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