Anti-Discrinination of such discrimination to the greatest extent possible in the future. It can give general recommendations to public administration to change their practice, it can make suggestions for amendments to laws and it can report to Parliament regarding structural problems and suggestions for improvement. By organising and participating in events and training on topics related to anti-discrimination, experience can be shared and information can be disseminated through the AOB as an institution that ensures legal protection and as the Human Rights House of the Republic of Austria. The AOB is also asked again and again by European and international bodies for the protection of human rights about its experiences and receives requests for suggestions for improvements. AOB reports to ECRI The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) is an independent monitoring body of the Council of Europe that monitors compliance with human rights in connection with combating racism and intolerance. The fifth monitoring cycle is currently ongoing, during which all of the member states of the Council of Europe are being examined as to their situation relative to racism and intolerance. This process is concluded by the country report that contains recommendations for the solution of any problems that have been found. When the Austrian country report was being prepared, a delegation from ECRI visited the AOB in November 2014. The AOB reported to ECRI regarding structural deficits and its efforts to achieve improvement of the protection against discrimination, as it reports regularly in the anti-discrimination section of the Annual Report. The report from ECRI will likely be published in September 2015, including a statement from Austria. Improvement of prohibition of discrimination under administrative criminal law? Efficient protection against discrimination requires adequate legal bases as well as sensitivity and knowledge on the part of the enforcing authorities. This is also a fundamental requirement so that the persons affected have confidence in the agencies empowered by the State. Amendment of the law upon AOB recommendation 46 As of September 2012, upon recommendation of the AOB the prohibition of discrimination under administrative penal law relative to access to public assets and services due to ethnic origin, religion or disability (Section III (1) (3) of the Introductory Act to the Administrative Procedure Acts was changed. This amendment of the law was supposed to effect an extension of criminal liability to discriminating practices that the AOB had previously determined in two findings of maladministration in 2007 and 2011. In these cases the AOB found that job and residential advertisements specified as