14 Amendments of Marco AFFRONTE related to 2015/2258(INI)
Amendment 1 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Highlights the strong correlation between disability, which touches about 13 % of the EU’s population, and ill- health, with difficulties and barriers in accessand deplores the fact that barriers in access to health services persist, leading to thean inadequate or unmet provision of healthcare services to people with disabilities;
Amendment 2 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Recalls that the UN CRPD Committee in its Concluding Observations highlighted the disproportionately adverse and retrogressive effect the austerity measures in the EU have been producing on the adequate standard of living of persons with disabilities, thus suggesting the provision of a minimum social protection floor, to be introduced in accordance with national practices;
Amendment 16 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Stresses the need to provide for a uniform system of sanctions throughout the EU to punish any behaviour, wherever it might be, that involves unequal treatment on grounds of disability;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 a (new)
Paragraph 4 a (new)
4 a. Calls on the Commission to refrain from supporting austerity measures which are likely to produce widespread adverse effects across the EU on adequate health standards for persons with disabilities.
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4 b (new)
Paragraph 4 b (new)
4 b. Calls on the Member States to refrain from cuts on disability-related benefits, community-based services and health services that deteriorate the health and wellbeing of persons with disabilities and of family caregivers;
Amendment 36 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12 a. urges all the EU Member States to properly acknowledge the key role of family caregivers, ensuring them a proper social and economic recognition and implementing measures of direct material support such as protection of pension entitlements or subsidies that reduce the full costs of services for carers; calls on the Commission to carry out a study aimed at analyzing the legal status, or the lack thereof, of family caregivers in all Member States;
Amendment 39 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
Paragraph 5
5. Urges the Commission and the Member States to evaluate the Cross-Border Healthcare Directive and its effective implementation from the perspective also of the needs of people with disabilities and their right to know, and effectively avail of, the provisions and instruments contained thereinprovided for by said Directive, awareness of which is low even among the general population;
Amendment 40 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Calls on the EU and Member States to deliver effective measures aimed at tackling segregation and rejection of students with disabilities in schools and learning environments, making all the necessary efforts to ensure they fully enjoy their right to inclusive and quality formal, non-formal and informal education, including accommodation and support needed;
Amendment 45 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to promote and enhance the use of Structural Funds by Member States, with a view to developing high-quality social services for people with disabilities and ensuring the transition from institutional care to community-based care; expresses its deep concern about the number of young people with disabilities living in institutions across the European Union who have no access to mainstream inclusive quality education;
Amendment 49 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve as much as possible national, regional and local organisations of persons with disabilities in the programming of Operational Programmes in the context of ESI Funds; stresses, moreover, the importance of guaranteeing full accessibility of people with disabilities to Erasmus +, Youth Guarantee and EURES initiatives;
Amendment 50 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. calls on Member States to refrain from cuts on disability related benefits, community based services, health services, training and education programmes that will undermine the UN CRPD and will increase even more levels of poverty and social exclusion;
Amendment 51 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15 c (new)
Paragraph 15 c (new)
15 c. calls on the European Commission and Member States to focus ESI Funds in the development of support services in local communities for young people with disabilities and their families, in order to foster deinstitutionalisation and prevent any new institutionalisation, promoting at the same time social inclusion focused on an individual-based approach and access to mainstream inclusive quality education for students with disabilities;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6 a. Urges the Commission and the Member States to properly acknowledge the key role of family caregivers and to ensure that they also have appropriate access to health services in view of the impact that caring for persons with disabilities has on their own physical and mental health and well-being;
Amendment 54 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 16 a (new)
Paragraph 16 a (new)
16 a. stresses that the European Union should take appropriate measures to ensure that all persons with disabilities deprived of their legal capacity can exercise all the rights enshrined in EU treaties and legislation such as on access to justice, to goods and services, including banking and employment, and to healthcare, as well as voting and consumer rights;