translate English to French: While acknowledging that the new Government has transferred the responsibility for women's and gender issues from the Ministry of the Chancellor to the Ministry of Social Security and Generations and that it has set up an interministerial co-ordinating committee on gender mainstreaming, it is concerned that the broad scope of the responsibilities of the latter Ministry will result in giving lesser priority to the elimination of discrimination against women and obstruct the visibility of government policy in that respect.
Thus, in the past these officials benefited from the higher standard with regard to affirmative action in favour of women provided by the Federal Equal Treatment Act, compared with the Equal Treatment Act, which applies to employees within the private sector.