Inclusion Europe: European Union Report on Implementation of the Disability Convention: comprehensive, but conservative
The ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) by the European Union (EU) was a landmark in the fight for equal opportunities for all Europeans. Still, similarly important are mechanisms to ensure that CRPD provisions are actually put into practice and that disability is indeed mainstreamed in all policies.
Therefore, Inclusion Europe welcomes the publication of the first Report on the implementation of the UN CRPD by the European Union, a comprehensive account of the measures taken by the European institutions to ensure that the rights of people with disabilities are considered in all relevant legislative proposals, as well as in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of EU policy. The European Commission was right in supporting a study to analyse the extent to which current laws and policies are aligned to the CRPD.
