In the FRG, LFPRs were high in the post-War period and decreased to 55 per cent in the late 1980s. At the legal level, this resulted in a debate on the legality of measures that proactively advantaged women (affirmative action), especially with regard to quotas for leadership positions or more generally for positions where women are underrepresented, which were seen by some as a form of"reverse discrimination”. The German General Equal Treatment Act (Allgemeines Gleichbehandlungsgesetz) of 2006 implements four EU Directives: the Race Equality Directive, the Employment Equality Directive, the Gender Equality Directive for Goods and Services and the Employment Gender Equality Directive. The German Constitutional Court recognizes the primacy of EU law, with the exception of basic constitutional structures and principles (Staatsstrukturprinzipier) which are constitutionally protected in Germany, cf. Nevertheless, gender equality remains topical in these EU documents.