Original scientific paper
EFFECTIVENESS OF TRANSPOSED EU EQUALITY LAW IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC
Barbara Havelková
Abstract
Although the acquis communautaire relating to gender
equality has largely been transposed in the Czech Republic, this does
not necessarily mean that these rules are being fully implemented. Almost
two years after accession to the EU, the equally important implementation
phases - namely, application (establishment of procedures
and administration of measures by the relevant authorities) and enforcement
(monitoring by the relevant authorities and ensuring or compelling
conformity) - are severely underdeveloped, and compliance by
the private sector is at a low level. Little attention is paid to continuous
policy evaluation, i.e. checking whether the adopted methods of application
and enforcement are bringing about the desired results, or
subsequent policy reform, i.e. learning from lessons drawn from the
evaluation stage.1
In this paper, the individual stages of implementation will be looked at
in order to determine possible challenges to the effectiveness of equality
law at the national level. Effectiveness here is understood, following
Snyder,2 as the fact that “law matters: it has effects on political,
economic and social life outside the law - that is, apart from simply the
elaboration of legal doctrine”.
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Hrčak ID:
28523
URI
Publication date:
3.11.2006.
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