Dutch Equal Treatment Commission
Overview
Netherlands
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Equal Treatment Commission
Government agency
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is an independent organisation that was established in 1994 to promote and monitor compliance with this legislation. The Commission also gives advice and information about the standards that apply. Everyone in the Netherlands can ask the Commission for an opinion or advice about a specific situation concerning unequal treatment, free of charge.
Quotations
We are a moderate, pragmatic people, more comfortable with practice than theory.
Speech in reply to Addresses from both Houses of Parliament in Westminster Hall in the year of Her Golden Jubilee (30 April 2002)
Football's a difficult business and aren't they prima donnas?
The Queen gives her opinion to Premier League chairman Sir David Richards|Sir David Richards, as quoted in BBC News (2 January 2007)]