Information for applicants needs to be improved... In all cases, it is important to ensure that the individuals involved are provided with sufficient information to enable them to assert their rights. The information sheet attached to the application form unfortunately does not contain any such information, and all one can find on the website of the relevant department is a vague allusion to the aforementioned practice. ...and wording of legislation must be amended The AOB feels that wording which clearly contradicts EU law should be eliminated, and has therefore proposed that the wording of the legislation should be amended so as to include an explicit reference to periods of gainful employment in EU or EEA countries. POLICE DISCRIMINATION WHEN CHECKING DRIVING LICENCE Mr. N. is an Austrian citizen of Nigerian background. At Linz central railway station, he was asked to show his driving licence as part of a police check. The driving licence showed his birthplace as a city in Nigeria. The policewoman thereupon asked Mr. N. what his citizenship was. The grounds she cited for doing so were that Mr. N. did not look "typically Austrian". This approach gave Mr. N. the impression that only those with skin of a particular colour are viewed as and accepted as Austrians. He construed the policewoman’s remarks as a racist insult. Remarks deemed inappropriate by Ministry of the Interior In its statement to the AOB, the Ministry of the Interior made it very clear that this remark was inappropriate, and that remarks of this kind undermine confidence in the police. According to the Ministry, the policewoman’s superior has firmly instructed her to in future refrain from remarks which could be construed as discriminatory or racist. Awareness-raising and further training The AOB then gathered information about awareness campaigns and further training measures. The Ministry of the Interior pointed out that "Human Rights, Ethics & Policing" is one of the topics in basic training and further training courses, and that seminars entitled "A World Of Difference" held in conjunction with the Anti-Defamation League are designed to raise consciousness among all law enforcement officers. In addition, a project called "Police. Power. Individuals. Rights" aims to further raise levels of professionalism among police officers, and the new project "Strategic Complaint Management" is geared to increasing the accountability of immediate and indirect 38