The prohibition of discrimination should be without prejudice to the maintenance or adoption of measures intended to prevent or compensate for disadvantages suffered by a group of persons of a particular religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation, and such measures may permit organisations of persons of a particular religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation where their main object is the promotion of the special needs of those persons.
Prepoved diskriminiranja ne sme vplivati na ohranjanje ali sprejemanje ukrepov, katerih namen je preprečevati ali kompenzirati za prikrajšanost, ki jo trpi kakšna skupina oseb določene vere ali prepričanja, hendikepiranosti, starosti ali spolne usmerjenosti, katerih glavni cilj je uveljavljanje posebnih potreb teh oseb.