A quote from Yves Daoudal at his blog, 26 March 2008 [English translation here]

The [French] National Assembly resumed work on a bill that reiterates three directives from the European Union on the fight against discrimination. […] You will remember that the European Commission demanded in particular that France define indirect discrimination and specified that it is forbidden to enjoin someone to practice discrimination.

And in the first article they did as they were told:

An indirect discrimination constitutes a disposition, a criterion, or a practice that is neutral in appearance, but which is capable of causing, for one of the reasons mentioned in the preceding line, a particular disadvantage for persons in relation to other persons, unless this disposition, this criterion, or this practice is objectively justified by a legitimate purpose and the means to achieve this purpose are necessary and appropriate.

Discrimination includes the act of enjoining someone to adopt a behavior forbidden by Article 2.

You will note that the scope of “indirect discrimination” is so wide that they had to add a restriction: discrimination is not discrimination when it is “objectively” justified...
 
The language of the directives is so absurd that in the section on gender discrimination it was necessary to add a series of derogations indicating that in a certain number of areas “different treatment” because of sex can be justified...