translate English to French: La réforme s’appliquera dès les élections municipales de mars 2001. Le texte instaure par ailleurs une sanction financière à l’encontre des partis qui ne respecteront pas la parité aux élections législatives.
It may cause various difficulties in legal practice, both for private parties and for public authorities, which may damage the relationship between national courts and the European Court of Justice, that the interpretation of the Equal Treatment Directive in the Mary Brown judgment appears shortly after the delivery of another judgment (the Larsson judgment) which puts a narrower interpretation