passed in 1977. The first Equal Treatment between Women and Men in Employment Act[16] was passed in 1979. A new Employment Protection Act was adopted in 1982.[17] An act prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race was first passed in 1986.[18] These acts are all still in place today, with the exceptions of the discrimination acts, which have been repealed by the 2008 Discrimination Act[19], which combines certain of the assortment of discrimination legislation into one act. The EU has brought about legislative changes in efforts to harmonize Swedish law first with the requirements of European Economic Union and later EU membership. The European Convention of 1950 on the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (“European Convention”), ratified by Sweden in 1950, was adopted as Swedish law in the form of the Swedish Human Rights Act in 1994, effective as law in 1998.[20]