125 SUMMARIES OF SELECTED STATEMENTS The Ombudsman regularly publishes statements (in Danish) on certain types of cases on www.ombudsmanden.dk and on www.retsinformation.dk, the official legal information system of the Danish state. Summaries are provided below (by ministerial area1) of the statements which have been published on cases concluded in 2015. A. MINISTRY OF EMPLOYMENT The following statements on cases concluded in 2015 have been published: 2015-6. The National Social Appeals Board was a party in a Board of Equal Treatment case while at the same time acting as the Board’s secretariat in the case. Administrative disqualification An employee of the National Social Appeals Board was dismissed in connection with a major round of dismissals. The dismissed employee believed that he had been the victim of age discrimination, and he complained to the Board of Equal Treatment. Pursuant to the Act on the Board of Equal Treatment, the National Social Appeals Board acts as secretariat for the Board of Equal Treatment. The Ombudsman investigated the issue of disqualification, meaning the importance of the National Social Appeals Board providing the secretariat services for the Board of Equal Treatment in a case where the National Social Appeals Board was also a party. The Board of Equal Treatment and the National Social Appeals Board did not think that administrative disqualification was an issue in the case. In the Ombudsman’s opinion, however, administrative disqualification was an issue in the case, and the Board of Equal Treatment should therefore have considered the possibilities of substitution of the National Social Appeals Board’s 1) The summaries have been classified under the ministries which had the remit for the relevant areas at the end of the year.