The task of the Network is to produce information, advice and reports.

The information includes:

• The transposition and practical implementation of the Racial Equality Directive and of the Employment Equality Directive
• The transposition and practical implementation of the gender equality Directives: the Social Security Directive, the Pregnancy and Maternity Directive, the Goods and Services Directive, the Recast Directive, the Parental Leave Directive and the Self-Employment Directive.
• National initiatives in the fields of anti-discrimination and gender equality legislation and related policy developments
• The impact of national court rulings that have the effect of establishing jurisprudence on the level of protection provided by national law against discrimination on all six grounds
• The potential conformity of national developments with the requirements of EU law
• The impact of judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights on national law

The Network produces:

• Comprehensive country reporting on non-discrimination and on gender equality
• Comparative analyses
• Thematic reports
• Regular flash reports
• Bi-annual bulletins of the European Equality Law Review
• One-day annual seminar

• General coordinator: Marcel Zwamborn, Human European Consultancy
• Content coordinator, Non-discrimination: Isabelle Chopin, Migration Policy Group
• Content coordinator, Gender equality: Susanne Burri, Utrecht University
• Project Management Assistants: Ivette Groenendijk and Andrea Trotter, Human European Consultancy
• Research editor, Non-discrimination: Catharina Germaine, Migration Policy Group
• Assistants, Gender equality: Alexandra Timmer and Alice Welland, Utrecht University

• Lilla Farkas, Migration Policy Group (race and ethnic origin including Roma)
• Mark Freedland, Oxford University (age)
• Christopher McCrudden, Queen’s University Belfast (EU and human rights law)
• Frans Pennings, Utrecht University (social security)
• Isabelle Rorive, Free University Brussels (religion and belief)
• Linda Senden, Utrecht University (gender)
• Krzysztof Smiszek, Polish Society of Anti-Discrimination Law (sexual orientation)
• Christa Tobler, Universities of Leiden and Basel (EU law and sex, gender identity and gender expression in relation to trans and intersex people)
• Lisa Waddington, Maastricht University  (disability)