The EU has progressively introduced antidiscrimination enforcement measures like the duty to set up Equality Bodies (EBs) that applies to the ground of racial or ethnic origin, among others. Until recently, however, EU law only envisaged vague standards for EBs that allowed a wide range of national configurations. Building on international benchmarks, this paper draws a set of dimensions considered necessary to improve promotion-type EBs responsiveness to discrimination. These dimensions are applied to the British and Spanish EBs to illustrate how the gaps left by EU law may lead to the design of ineffective bodies. The paper argues that EBs can contribute to effectively tackling discrimination if they are designed to be responsive at individual and systemic levels. The 2018 EU Recommendation on Standards for EBs makes a step forward in that direction, but its practical relevance may be limited by its non-binding nature.

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平等的机构：朝着更具响应性的设计前进？

欧盟已逐步引入反歧视执法措施，例如建立适用于种族或民族血统等理由的平等机构 (EB) 的义务。然而，直到最近，欧盟法律只为允许广泛的国家配置的 EB 设想了模糊的标准。在国际基准的基础上，本文绘制了一组被认为是提高促进型 EB 对歧视的反应所必需的维度。这些维度适用于英国和西班牙的 EB，以说明欧盟法律留下的空白可能如何导致无效机构的设计。该论文认为，如果 EB 被设计为在个人和系统层面做出响应，那么它们可以有助于有效地解决歧视问题。