EU : Regulation No 1922/2006 of 20 December 2006 on establishing a European Institute for Gender Equality

published in the EU Official Journal of December 30, 2006. The institute with its headquarters in Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital, is scheduled to become operational by January 2008. (Ref. 070005)

This new European institute, set up by decision of the Council in 2004, shall:

1° collect, analyse and disseminate objective, reliable and comparable information and data on equality between men and woman;

2° elaborate appropriate tools for the elimination of all forms of discrimination on grounds of s