31 Amendments of Ádám KÓSA related to 2019/2975(RSP)
Amendment 10 #
Citation 3 a (new)
- having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) and the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women(CEDAW)
Amendment 18 #
Citation 5
— having regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD Committee) of 2 October 2015 on the initial report of the European Union, including those on the European Union institutions’ compliance with the Convention as public administrations,
Amendment 31 #
Citation 6
— having regard to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights, the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
Amendment 32 #
Citation 7
— having regard to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Sustainable Development Goals, which the EU is committed to implement,
Amendment 35 #
Citation 10 a (new)
- having regard to Directive (EU) 2018/1808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 November 2018 amending Directive 2010/13/EU on the coordination of certain provisions laid down by law, regulation or administrative action in Member States concerning the provision of audiovisual media services (Audiovisual Media Services Directive) in view of changing market realities (OJ L 303, 28.11.2018, p. 69),
Amendment 37 #
Citation 10 b (new)
- having regard to Directive (EU) 2018/1972 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2018 establishing the European Electronic Communications Code (Recast) (OJ L 321, 17.12.2018, p. 36.),
Amendment 38 #
Citation 12 a (new)
- having regard to the Commission communication of 14 January 2020 entitled ‘A Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions’ (COM(2020) 14),
Amendment 40 #
Citation 20 a (new)
- having regard to its resolutions of 17 June 1988 on sign languages for deaf people (OJ C 187, 18.7.1988, p. 236), of 18 November 1998 on sign languages (OJ C 379, 7.12.1998, p. 66) and of 23 November 2016 on sign language and professional sign language interpreters (OJ C 224, 27.6.2018, p. 68),
Amendment 50 #
Citation 22 a (new)
- having regard to the European Pillar of Social Rights, especially principle 17 on the inclusion of persons with disabilities, which serves as a vehicle of UN CRPD implementation,
Amendment 55 #
Citation 26 a (new)
- having regard to the Eurostat disability statistics on labour market access, access to education and training, and poverty and income inequalities,
Amendment 87 #
Recital F
F. whereas Article 1 of the UN CRPD states that “persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others”; whereas Article 9 of the UNCRPD is of particular importance in that regard;
Amendment 119 #
Recital H
H. whereas the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (the present Strategy) has served as a framework for policy and legislative proposals to implement the UNCRPD;
Amendment 161 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 1
- with designated priority areas covering all the provisions of the UNCRPD in all areas of EU policy and addressing the Concluding Observations of the UNCRPD Committee to the EU adopted in 2015,
Amendment 170 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 3 a (new)
Amendment 181 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 5
- mainstreaming the rights of the women, children, youth, older persons, and individuals with multiple disabilities with disabilities into all policies and all areas,
Amendment 204 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 6
- with an adequate and wellsufficiently- resourced monitoring mechanism with clear benchmarks and indicators,
Amendment 207 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 7 a (new)
- ensuring active involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities in drafting, implementing and monitoring the post 2020 strategy
Amendment 209 #
Paragraph 2 – indent 8
- allocating an adequate budget for the implementation and monitoring of the post-2020 Strategy; including the allocation of an adequate budget for the EU CRPD Framework, which promotes, protects and monitors implementation of the CRPD in matters of EU competences, i.e. in EU legislation and policies and EU public administration
Amendment 233 #
Paragraph 3
3. Stresses that the post 2020 Strategy should be based on a cross-cutting, comprehensive review of all EU legislation and policy in order to ensure full harmonisation with the provisions of the UNCRPD; insists that it should include a revised declaration of competences including all policy areas in which the EU has legislated or adopted soft law measures that have an impact on persons with disabilities, and should propose concrete legislative proposals with implementation and monitoring measures;
Amendment 251 #
Paragraph 4
4. Calls on the Commission to prepare the post-2020 Strategy with the close, meaningful and systematic involvement of persons with disabilities and of their representative organisations, and to ensure their accessible and meaningful participation in the implementation, monitoring and evaluation of the post-2020 Strategy also through adequate funding theirand capacity-building;
Amendment 279 #
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses the need for continuous monitoring of the implementation of the UNCRPD; calls for the collection of robust, disaggregated (by disability type, age, gender, etc.), comparable data on the situation of persons with disabilities to facilitate proper monitoring of progress; urges the Commission to provide adequate resources to the EU CRPD Framework to enable it to perform its functions independently and adequately;
Amendment 289 #
Paragraph 7
7. Calls on the Commission to systematically mainstream the rights of persons with disabilities in all the relevant EU laws, policies and programmes; with an establishment of disability focal points in all Commission DGs and Agencies, in all EU institutions; the main disability focal point being in the Commission’s Secretary General, to reflect the transversality of disability issues; and with assigned inter-institutional mechanism to coordinate the implementation of the CRPD in EU institutions and agencies; stresses in this regard that EU institutions as public administrations shall comply with the UN CRPD in all respects
Amendment 312 #
Paragraph 8
8. Calls on the Commission to safeguard the UNCRPD-compliant use of EU funds and to ensure that EU funds will not contribute to the construction or refurbishment of institutional care settings; and projects that do not meaningfully involve persons with disabilities and their representative organisations; stresses that funds should actively be invested in research to develop better and more affordable assistive technology for persons with disabilities; calls for the active participation of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in all EU funded disability- related programmes
Amendment 340 #
Paragraph 8 a (new)
8 a. Calls on the Commission to ensure external action is included in the Strategy;
Amendment 367 #
Paragraph 9
9. Calls on the Commission to develop a comprehensive campaign in accessible formats and national sign languages to raise awareness of the UN CRPD among the persons with disabilities and the society in general;
Amendment 382 #
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to affirm their commitment to promoting, protecting and ensuring the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promotingensure respect for their inherent dignity also by implementing the post-2020 Strategy and to allocate adequate and sufficient human and financial resources to its implementation and by closely monitoring the implementation of the post 2020 strategy with meaningful involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations;
Amendment 394 #
Paragraph 10 a (new)
10 a. Calls on the Member States to take concrete actions to ensure the full and proper implementation of the Directive (EU) 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act); calls on the Commission to set up effective monitoring and enforcement mechanisms for the implementation of the European Accessibility Act.
Amendment 401 #
Paragraph 10 b (new)
10 b. Calls on the Commission to ensure the mutual recognition of the right to Personal Assistance for disabled people granted by a Member State, when enjoying their right of free movement in the Union; stresses that the right to Personal Assistance should be enforceable throughout the whole Union.
Amendment 407 #
Paragraph 10 c (new)
10 c. Stresses the need for concrete measures within the post-2020 Strategy for an inclusive labour market; stresses in this regard the importance of new technologies and new ways of working.
Amendment 409 #
Paragraph 10 d (new)
10 d. Calls on the Commission to provide targeted support from the European Social Fund in the social economy in order to improve the employability for disabled people in this sector.
Amendment 425 #
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the European Union and all Member States to ratify the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD;