PTD-Art.22: Legal costs
Member States shall ensure that claimants who prevail are not, in principle, required to bear the costs of proceedings in a manner that would make enforcement excessively difficult; courts may award costs against unsuccessful claimants only in limited circumstances.
Our statement of the clause of Directive (EU) 2023/970 on pay transparency, held and verified: cite it as PTD-Art.22. The instrument verbatim is not quoted here; the held framework carries the reading.
The evidence this duty asks you to hold
Cost rules that do not deter meritorious equal-pay claims
What usually goes missing
Cost exposure that makes enforcement excessively difficult
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.