| Abstract |
Key facts of the case: The complaint was presented to the High Commission for Immigration and Ethnic Minorities (ACIME) following the publication of an article in a Portuguese newspaper on 07.07.2001. The complaint was directed against a car rental company for the refusal to provide the service of renting a car supposedly on account of racial discrimination. The process was instructed by the General Inspection of Public Works, Transports and Communications. Key issues (concepts, interpretations) clarified by the case: Law nº 134/99 of August 28 forbids and sanctions all forms of racial discrimination, acts which violate any fundamental rights, the refusal or conditioning of the exercise of any economic, social or cultural rights, by any person, on account of race, colour, nationality or ethnic origin. The sanction was applied on the basis of art. 4.º/1, c) which sanctions 'the refusal to supply or impediment of fruition of goods and services, by any singular or collective person'.Results and most important consequences, implications of the case: The permanent commission of the CICDR condemned the company to pay a fine of EUR 1,002.58.This administrative decision was the first condemnation applied by the CICDR, i.e. it was the first time that a practice was sanctioned on the basis of the Law against Racial Discrimination (law n.º 134/99, of August 28). ...
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