L'EGALITES DES CHANCES DANS LE SECTEUR POSTAL - BONNES PRATIQUES
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Equal opportunities in the postal sector Good practices Equal opportunities in the postal sector Good practices LA POSTE. POST Deutsche Post Jfif World Net P&T Γ 0 ífWMWCS LUXEMBOURG WPost.af Posteitaliane pose @ Consignia ™PTl>OST with the assistance of the European Commission A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int). Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication. Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2001 ISBN 928940616X © European Communities, 2001 Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged. Printed in Belgium PRINTED ON WHITE CHLORINEFREE PAPER Introductory note by Mrs Anna Diamantopoulou, Commissioner responsible for employment and social affairs The European Union has a strong commitment to promote equal opportunities and to combat discrimination. In the year 2000, the Community adopted a series of legal measures to prohibit discrimination at work on a wide range of grounds — racial and ethnic origin, religion and belief, disability and sexual orientation — to add to the existing measures on sex discrimination. But legislation on its own is not enough. Important priorities for promoting equal opportunities and anti-discrimination for people with disabil-¡ties include raising the employment levels and supporting socially ^KH ^.