Acting within the framework of legally prescribed competencies[1] to monitor the implementation of the laws concerning the prohibition of discrimination and recommend measures for the achievement of equality to public authority bodies and other persons, the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality hereby issues to the Bank the following

RECOMMENDATION ON MEASURES FOR ACHIEVING OF EQUALITY

The Commissioner for the Protection of Equality recommends to the Bank:

To undertake all necessary actions and measures in order to enable the citizens associations, as well as members of the association, employees of the association to use, on an equal basis with other legal and natural persons, the banking services offered by the bank, including credit loans, that is, to perform, in accordance with the law, credit rating and credit risk assessment, that is based on quantitative and qualitative criteria, with respect to each individual client, to establish, based on the objective criteria, the characteristics of a specific potential future borrower and to make a decision on possible lending which is not based on any real or assumed personal characteristic.

The Bank will inform the Commissioner for the Protection of Equality of the planned measures in order to implement this recommendation, within 30 days from the date of receipt of the recommendation on the measures for the achievement of equality.

No appeal or any other legal remedy is allowed against this recommendation on measures for the achievement of equality.

COMMISSIONER FOR THE PROTECTION OF EQUALITY

Brankica Janković

[1] Law on Prohibition of Discrimination (“Official Gazette of the Republic of Serbia”, No. 22/09), Article 33(9)