13. The experts noted that, apart from the equality and anti-discrimination provisions enshrined in its Constitution, Belgium has adopted several specific legal instruments at the national level with respect to the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antiSemitism and intolerance: the Anti-Racism Law of 30 July 1981, modified in 1994, 1999 and through the law of 20 January 2003, related to the strengthening of the national legislation against racism; the general anti-discrimination law of 25 February 2003; the culture pact law of 16 July 1973 which guarantees the protection of ideological and philosophical tendencies; the law of 19 March 2004 giving the right to vote to non-European Union foreigners for local elections; and the 1989 law regulating the financing of political parties and its 1999 amendments providing for limitation or cessation of donations to political parties whose ideology or actions are in contradiction with the European Convention of Human Rights.
13. The experts noted that, apart from the equality and anti-discrimination provisions enshrined in its Constitution, Belgium has adopted several specific legal instruments at the national level with respect to the fight against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, antiSemitism and intolerance: the Anti-Racism Law of 30 July 1981, modified in 1994, 1999 and through the law of 20 January 2003, related to the strengthening of the national legislation against racism; the general anti-discrimination law of 25 February 2003; the culture pact law of 16 July 1973 which guarantees the protection of ideological and philosophical tendencies; the law of 19 March 2004 giving the right to vote to non-European Union foreigners for local elections; and the 1989 law regulating the financing of political parties and its 1999 amendments providing for limitation or cessation of donations to political parties whose ideology or actions are in contradiction with the European Convention of Human Rights.