PTD-Art.21: Limitation periods
Member States shall ensure limitation periods for bringing equal-pay claims are at least three years and do not begin to run before the claimant knows, or can reasonably be expected to know, of the infringement.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.21. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Limitation periods of at least three years with appropriate start date
What usually goes missing
Limitation periods shorter than three years or starting prematurely
Where this lands in an audit
In Equal Pay Auditor this control informs the same-work screen, the category figures and the remediation steps, which carry their article citations on the result.