Medlemsstaterne træffer i overensstemmelse med deres nationale retssystemer de nødvendige foranstaltninger til at sikre, at det påhviler den indklagede at bevise, at princippet om ligebehandling ikke er blevet tilsidesat, hvis personer, der mener sig krænket, fordi princippet om ligebehandling tilsidesættes i forhold til de pågældende, over for en domstol eller en anden kompetent myndighed, fremfører faktiske omstændigheder, som giver anledning til at formode, at der er udøvet direkte eller indirekte forskelsbehandling.
Member States shall take such measures as are necessary, in accordance with their national judicial systems, to ensure that, when persons who consider themselves wronged because the principle of equal treatment has not been applied to them establish, before a court or other competent authority, facts from which it may be presumed that there has been direct or indirect discrimination, it shall be for the respondent to prove that there has been no breach of the principle of equal treatment.