Introduction or preface

- The second generation anti-discrimination legislation provides that a difference of treatment, based on a characteristic related to any of the grounds referred to in the law shall not constitute discrimination when, by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out, such a characteristic constitutes a genuine and determining occupational requirement, provided that the objective is legitimate and the requirement is proportionate. According to the European Directives, occupational requirements are external cases to the discrimination because they refer to the concrete possibility of carrying out work activity. The A. verifies the correct implementation of such Directives in the Italian legal system, with regard to external cases to discrimination.