14 Amendments of Elżbieta RAFALSKA related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 76 #
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas there are an estimated 80 million persons with disabilities in the European Union, of which 46 million are women;
Amendment 77 #
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas Articles 21 and 26 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union prohibit discrimination on the grounds of disability and provide for equal participation of persons with disabilities in society;
Amendment 79 #
Recital C
C. whereas the UNCRPD is ratified by the EU and all its Member States, thereby, it is binding; the first international human rights treaty ratified by the EU and all its Member States; whereas the case law of the Court of Justice reinforces the fact that the CRPD is binding on the EU and on its Member States when implementing EU law, as it is an instrument of secondary law;
Amendment 80 #
Recital C a (new)
C a. whereas children with disabilities have the right to live in (their) families or(a) family environment in line with their best interests; whereas family members often have to reduce or stop professional activities in order to care for family members with a disability;
Amendment 81 #
Recital C b (new)
C b. whereas the EU, as a party to the CRPD, has the duty to ensure the close involvement and active participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in the development and implementation of legislation and policies to implement the Convention and in all decision-making processes concerning issues that relate to persons with disabilities;
Amendment 125 #
Recital I a (new)
I a. Whereas the Commission so far has not undertaken a cross-cutting, comprehensive review of its legislation in order to ensure full harmonisation with the provisions of the UNCRPD;
Amendment 134 #
Recital J a (new)
J a. whereas employers must be supported and encouraged to ensure persons with disabilities are empowered all the way from education to employment; whereas to this end the awareness raising of employers is one way to combat discrimination in the hiring of persons with disabilities;
Amendment 148 #
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1 a. Is concerned that in some Member States persons with disabilities working in sheltered workshop are not formally recognised as workers under the law, paid less than the minimum wage and are not entitled to the same social advantages as regular workers;
Amendment 150 #
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1 b. Is particularly concerned about young people with disabilities and those who have been unemployed for a longer period of time; calls on the Member States to work towards including them in the labour market as a matter of priority for example as part of the Youth Guarantee programme;
Amendment 226 #
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2 a. Calls on the European Commission to streamline disability in all aspects of the Social Pillar, including the ones on labour market participation, instead of limiting it to disability benefits and social protection;
Amendment 229 #
Paragraph 2 b (new)
2 b. Stresses that the 2020-2030 strategy should be based on a crosscutting, comprehensive review of all EU legislation and policy in order to ensure full harmonization with the provisions of the Convention, and include a revised declaration of competences;
Amendment 302 #
Paragraph 7 a (new)
7 a. Calls on the Commission to promote structural involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in all decision-making phases, both nationally and at EU level, and to fund capacity building of organisations of persons with disabilities to enable them to participate in a structural way in all decisions that concern persons with disabilities;
Amendment 443 #
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Amendment 454 #
Paragraph 12 b (new)
12 b. Recommends the EU to structurally integrate the European Disability Strategy within the European Semester process;