Article 7. Gender-Legal Expertise

State bodies and other organizations shall carry out gender-legal expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts in the corresponding areas of activities.

Where non-compliance of a normative legal act or its draft with the principles of ensurance of guarantees of equal rights and opportunities for women and men has been established, the conclusion of the gender legal expertise shall be sent for examination to the body which drafted or adopted that normative legal act.

Gender-legal expertise of normative legal acts and their drafts shall aim at:

revealing the non-compliance of a normative legal act or its draft with the principles of ensurance of guarantees of equal rights and opportunities for women and men, which creates the possibility of direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of gender;

an overall assessment of the consequences of the adoption of a draft normative legal act, which creates the possibility of direct and indirect discrimination on the basis of gender;

identification of possible risks of a discriminatory nature in the process of applying normative legal acts;

development of recommendations which aim at elimination of the identified norms, which allow direct or indirect discrimination on the basis of gender.