Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men, 2015.

The Law on Equal Opportunities for Women and Men is a stand-alone, gender-specific legal instrument, adopted for the purpose of overcoming any unfavourable social status of women and men, resulting from a systematic discrimination or structural gender inequality resulting from historical and socio-cultural circumstances (Article 7(1)). It supports the use of special measures for the purpose of inter alia eliminating gender-based barriers, and achieving equality of treatment, participation, and social status (Article 7(2)). It provides a legal basis for the promotion of equal representation in all bodies and on all levels in the field of legislative, executive and judiciary authority. Furthermore, special measures may be used to strengthen participation in local government, and it also encourages the introduction of incentives or special advantages to women for the purpose of eliminating the circumstances that cause unequal distribution of social goods and resources (Article 7(3)). These could include natural resources such as land, although the law does not specify the meaning and scope of these social goods and resources. The bodies of the legislative, executive and judiciary authority, and the local self-government units, have the responsibility of adopting these measures through the preparation of a plan of implementation which requires the approval from the Ministry of Labour and Social Policy.
This Law shall regulate the establishment of equal opportunities and equal treatment of women and men, the general and special measures for establishment of equal opportunities for women and men, the rights and obligations of the responsible entities in ensuring equal opportunities for women and men, the procedure for determining unequal treatment of women and men, as well as the rights and duties of the legal representative for equal opportunities for women and men (hereinafter: the representative) as a designated person for conducting the procedure for determining unequal treatment of women and men. The establishment of equal opportunities for women and men shall be regulated by this and another law that regulate the issues of interest for the equal opportunities for women and men in the field of health protection and health insurance, social protection, access to goods and services, economy, labor relations and employment, education and professional development, economic and proprietary relations, use of public products and services (consumer rights), culture and sport, information and communication technologies, defense and security, judiciary and administration, housing, public information and media, state and public administration and other spheres of the social life. The aim of this Law shall be the establishment of equal opportunities for women and men in the political, economic, social, educational, cultural, health, civil and any other sphere of the social life. The establishment of equal opportunities shall be a concern of the entire society, i.e. of all entities in the public and private sector and shall constitute elimination of the obstacles and creation of conditions for achievement of full equality between women and men.