21 Amendments of Isabella ADINOLFI related to 2015/2258(INI)
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 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Highlights that the UN CRPD Committee in its Concluding Observations critically noted that austerity measures adopted by EU and Member States worsened standard of living of persons with disabilities, leading to higher poverty and social exclusion levels and cuts in education and training programmes;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls for an immediate stop of all austerity measures and urges both the EU and Member States to adopt the necessary legislation to fully and consistently comply with the UN CRPD, guaranteeing, amongst the others, adequate levels of disability related benefits, community based services, health services and high quality education and training programmes;
Amendment 15 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Expresses its deep concern in relation to the effect the austerity measures in the EU have been producing on the lives of persons with disabilities; calls thus 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 18 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Encourages the Member States as well as regional and local authorities to increase their efforts in the area of prevention of discrimination and exclusion of persons with disabilities, including equal access to health care, and with a view to developing high-quality social services for people with disabilities;
Amendment 26 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Calls on those Member States that have not ratified the UNCRPD to do so as soon as possible;
Amendment 29 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. 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 34 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2 b (new)
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2b. Calls on the EU and Member States to deliver a targeted approach aimed at supporting learning environments where persons with disabilities can specifically learn competences and skills to overcome disabilities so as to enhance their path to achieve a full and complete independent life;
Amendment 35 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 a (new)
Paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve as much as possible national, regional and local organisations of persons with disabilities both in the programming and in the monitoring of Operational Programmes;
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 37 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6 b (new)
Paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Recalls that, according to the article 7 of the Regulation n.1304/2013, financial support for organisations of persons with disabilities should be included in the programming of national and regional Operational Programmes;
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 3
Paragraph 3
3. Urges the Council to adopt without further delay the Decision on the conclusion of the Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works for Persons Who Are Blind, Visually Impaired, or Otherwise Print Disabled so as to ratify it on behalf of the EU and implement consistent and effective measures in line with its provisions;
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 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on all actors involved, including EU institutions, to pay particular attention to the integration of persons with intellectual and psychosocial disabilities. and to adopt comprehensive recruitment policies;
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 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;
Amendment 73 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 a (new)
Paragraph 5 a (new)
5a. Strongly believes that an effective cross-cutting and comprehensive review of the EU legislation should take place as soon as possible to fully harmonise it with the UN CRPD provisions, implementing a democratic and participatory process aimed at ensuring a direct and full involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 77 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5 b (new)
Paragraph 5 b (new)
5b. Calls on the EU to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UN CRPD recalling the favourable 2008 Commission proposal approved by the European Parliament in its legislative resolution adopted in 2009 and highlights that so far a large majority of EU Member States have signed and ratified it.