European Parliament 2019-2024

Committee on Employment and Social Affairs

2020/2209(INI)

2.6.2021

AMENDMENTS 1 - 181

Draft opinion Radan Kanev (PE691.289v01-00)

The protection of persons with disabilities through petitions: lessons learnt (2020/2209(INI))

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PE693.700v01-00 2/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Amendment 1 Katrin Langensiepen

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A. whereas the Committee on A. whereas the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs highly Employment and Social Affairs highly appreciates the role of the Committee on appreciates the role of the Committee on Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s citizens, Parliament and the other EU citizens, Parliament and the other EU institutions; institutions; whereas the Committee on Petitions plays a crucial part in ensuring a participatory democracy, citizens orientated parliamentary activities and citizen involvement, revealing infringements that fall within the European Union's fields of competencies and activities and which affects citizens directly, but also wrongdoing that falls out of scope of EU competences thereby revealing possible loopholes and weaknesses in EU Law that need to be tackled;

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Amendment 2 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital A

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A. whereas the Committee on A. whereas the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs highly Employment and Social Affairs highly appreciates the role of the Committee on appreciates the role of the Committee on Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s citizens, Parliament and the other EU citizens, Parliament and the other EU institutions; institutions; whereas submission of a petition to the European Parliament is a fundamental right of every individual and organisation based in the EU and at the

AM\1233081EN.docx 3/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN same time an indispensable direct source of factual information on the experience of persons with disabilities with the exercise of their rights guaranteed by the EU law and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD);

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Amendment 3 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Recital A

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A. whereas the Committee on A. whereas the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs highly Employment and Social Affairs highly appreciates the role of the Committee on appreciates the role of the Committee on Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s citizens, Parliament and the other EU citizens, Parliament and the other EU institutions; institutions; whereas the right to petition the European Parliament is one of the fundamental rights of EU citizens; whereas the right to petition offers EU citizens and residents an open, democratic and transparent mechanism for addressing their elected representatives directly, and is therefore an important element of active citizens' participation in the EU’s fields of activity;

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Amendment 4 Anne Sander

Draft opinion Recital A

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A. whereas the Committee on A. whereas the Committee on

PE693.700v01-00 4/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Employment and Social Affairs highly Employment and Social Affairs highly appreciates the role of the Committee on appreciates the role of the Committee on Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s Petitions as a bridge between the Union’s citizens, Parliament and the other EU citizens, Parliament and the other EU institutions; institutions; whereas through this role it has a special duty to protect the rights of persons with disabilities in the European Union;

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Amendment 5 Anne Sander

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas within the EU framework for the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), the Committee on Petitions has a specific role to play in protecting the rights conferred by the CRPD in the Member States, insofar as they are implementing EU law, and more generally in ensuring that the EU institutions uphold these rights, in accordance with Article 33(2) of the CRPD;

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Amendment 6 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the European Parliament does not conduct satisfaction surveys among petitioners, making it difficult to assess the petitions process and its

AM\1233081EN.docx 5/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN accessibility for persons with disabilities and to draw lessons therefrom; whereas Parliament has not yet developed an index of effectiveness of its petition system nor collected and published statistical data on the treatment of petitions;

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Amendment 7 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the right to petition should be more visible to all; whereas the Committee on Petitions should ensure that EU citizens and residents have sufficient information on this right i. a. through targeted information campaigns with the special focus on vulnerable groups including persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 8 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs underlines the significance of petitions pertaining to the rights of persons with disabilities in the light of the European Parliament’s role and responsibilities as a part of the EU framework for monitoring the implementation of UN CRPD;

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Amendment 9 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Recital A a (new)

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Aa. whereas there are approximately 87 million persons with disabilities in Europe1a; ______1a Commissioner Dalli on Rights of Persons with Disabilities https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscor ner/detail/en/SPEECH_21_1015

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Amendment 10 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital A b (new)

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Ab. whereas principle 17 of the European Pillar of Social Rights states that people with disabilities have the right to income support that ensures living in dignity, services that enable them to participate in the labour market and in society, and a work environment adapted to their needs;

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Amendment 11 Joanna Kopcińska

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Ab. whereas nearly one in four EU citizens surveyed reported some degree of functional limitations due to health conditions1b; ______1b https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics- explained/index.php?title=Functional_an d_activity_limitations_statistics

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Amendment 12 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital A c (new)

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Ac. whereas Member States signed ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities whose Article 24 stipulates that signatories shall ensure that persons with disabilities are able to access lifelong learning, adult education, vocational training, general tertiary and secondary education as well as free and compulsory primary education;

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Amendment 13 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Recital Β

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B. whereas approximately 1 % of all B. whereas there are around 87

PE693.700v01-00 8/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN petitions received each year by the million people with disabilities in Committee on Petitions relate to various Europe1a and approximately 1 % of all disability issues; whereas social protection petitions received each year by the and employment rights, use of the Committee on Petitions relate to various European Structural and Investment Funds disability issues, which reveal the in compliance with EU regulations and the difficulties encountered by persons with UN Convention on the Rights of Persons disabilities and the fact that they face with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other discrimination and obstacles in everyday issues falling within the competences of life and do not enjoy the fundamental the Committee on Employment and Social freedoms and rights laid down in the UN Affairs, are among the most common Convention on the Rights of Persons with disability equality concerns voiced in the Disabilities (CRPD); whereas social petitions received by Parliament; protection and employment rights, use of the European Structural and Investment Funds in compliance with EU regulations and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other issues falling within the competences of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, are among the most common disability equality concerns voiced in the petitions received by Parliament; ______1a https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscor ner/detail/en/speech_21_1015

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Amendment 14 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Recital B

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B. whereas approximately 1 % of all B. whereas approximately 1 % of all petitions received each year by the petitions received each year by the Committee on Petitions relate to various Committee on Petitions relate to various disability issues; whereas social protection disability issues which shows the interest and employment rights, use of the and concerns of European citizens about European Structural and Investment Funds the rights of persons with disabilities in compliance with EU regulations and the despite the low visibility of the opportunity UN Convention on the Rights of Persons to petition the Parliament among the

AM\1233081EN.docx 9/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other disability communities; whereas social issues falling within the competences of protection and employment rights, use of the Committee on Employment and Social the European Structural and Investment Affairs, are among the most common Funds in compliance with EU regulations disability equality concerns voiced in the and the UN Convention on the Rights of petitions received by Parliament; Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other issues falling within the competences of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, are among the most common disability equality concerns voiced in the petitions received by Parliament;

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Amendment 15 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital B

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B. whereas approximately 1 % of all B. whereas approximately 1 % of all petitions received each year by the petitions received each year by the Committee on Petitions relate to various Committee on Petitions relate to a variety disability issues; whereas social protection of problems persons with disabilities and employment rights, use of the encounter every day; whereas among the European Structural and Investment Funds reported problems social protection and in compliance with EU regulations and the inclusion, employment and workers rights, UN Convention on the Rights of Persons discrimination, ensuring equality, with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other children’s' rights and protection, the use issues falling within the competences of of the European Structural and Investment the Committee on Employment and Social Funds in compliance with EU regulations Affairs, are among the most common and the UN Convention on the Rights of disability equality concerns voiced in the Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD), are petitions received by Parliament; among the most common disability equality concerns voiced in the petitions received by Parliament falling within the competences of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs;

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Amendment 16

PE693.700v01-00 10/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital B

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B. whereas approximately 1 % of all B. whereas approximately 1 % of all petitions received each year by the petitions received each year by the Committee on Petitions relate to various Committee on Petitions relate to disability disability issues; whereas social protection issues persons with disabilities face; and employment rights, use of the whereas social protection and employment European Structural and Investment Funds rights, use of the European Structural and in compliance with EU regulations and the Investment Funds in compliance with EU UN Convention on the Rights of Persons regulations and the UN CRPD, and other with Disabilities (UN CRPD), and other issues falling within the competences of issues falling within the competences of the Committee on Employment and Social the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs, are among the most common Affairs, are among the most common disability equality concerns voiced in the disability equality concerns voiced in the petitions received by Parliament; petitions received by Parliament;

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Amendment 17 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ba. whereas all EU Members States ratified the United Nations Convention on the Rights oft he Child making it binding for them and whereas Article 3(3) of the Treaty of the European Union establishes the objective for the EU to promote protection of Children’s rights; whereas the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights guarantees the protection of the rights of the child by the EU institutions and by EU countries when they implement EU law; whereas the European Parliament with a strong majority voted on its Resolution on a European Child Guarantee strongly

AM\1233081EN.docx 11/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN asking to ensure that all children have access to inclusive education from early childhood to adolescence, including for Romani children, children with disabilities, stateless and migrant children and those living in humanitarian emergency settings;

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Amendment 18 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Recital Β a (new)

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Ba. having regard to the Commission proposal for a Council Directive on implementing the principle of equal treatment between persons irrespective of religion or belief, disability, age or sexual orientation (COM(2008)0426, ‘the Anti- Discrimination Directive’); whereas this directive would provide greater protection against discrimination of all kinds but still remains blocked in the European Council;

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Amendment 19 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas the Committee on Petitions receives a large number of petitions relating to Directive 2000/78/EC concerning the failure to implement the principle of equal treatment with regard

PE693.700v01-00 12/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN to access to inclusive education, employment, vocational training, promotion and working conditions of people with disabilities, and whereas therefore a more complex approach is needed;

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Amendment 20 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas access to quality employment, education and training, healthcare, social protection, including across borders, access to adequate housing, support for independent living and equal opportunities for participation in leisure activities and community life are essential for quality life of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 21 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital B a (new)

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Ba. whereas, in 2019, 28.4% of the EU population with a disability (aged 16 or over) was at risk of social exclusion or poverty1a; ______1a Eurostat 2021

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Amendment 22 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital B b (new)

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Bb. whereas the collection of EU Statistics on Population (ESOP) overlooks the nature of a person's disability as well as the number of persons with disabilities living in residential care, hampering compliance with Article 31 of the UNCRPD;

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Amendment 23 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Recital B b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Bb. whereas there is insufficient information available on European and national regulations on labour rights, employment and non-discrimination for people with various types of disabilities;

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Amendment 24 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

Draft opinion

PE693.700v01-00 14/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Recital C

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C. whereas it is generally C. whereas persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with continue to face multiple obstacles and disabilities continue to face multiple discrimination in everyday life which obstacles and discrimination in everyday prevents them from enjoying the life and that they do not enjoy the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous EU and UN legislation and in numerous EU and UN documents, such conventions on an equal basis with others, as mutual recognition of disability status such as mutual recognition of disability between Member States, access to public status between Member States, access to transport, accessibility of the built public transport, physical, sensory and environment, use of sign languages, cognitive accessibility of the built financing of and equal access to education environment, products, services and and vocational training, access to personal programmes, use of hearing assistive assistance and community inclusion; devices, haptic aids, sign languages and all other means and formats of accessible communication and information, financing of and equal access to inclusive education, vocational training and employment;

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Amendment 25 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Recital C

Draft opinion Amendment

C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple obstacles and discrimination in everyday life and that discrimination in everyday life and that they do not enjoy the fundamental they do not enjoy the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous freedoms and rights laid down in numerous EU and UN documents, such as mutual EU and UN documents, such as mutual recognition of disability status between recognition of disability status between Member States, access to public transport, Member States which hinders their accessibility of the built environment, use freedom of movement as one of the of sign languages, financing of and equal fundamental freedoms enshrined in the access to education and vocational training, Treaties, access to public transport, access to personal assistance and accessibility of the built environment,

AM\1233081EN.docx 15/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN community inclusion; goods and services, use of sign languages, financing of and equal access to education and vocational training, independent living and access to personal assistance and community inclusion;

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Amendment 26 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital C

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C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple and discrimination in everyday life and that intersectional obstacles and discrimination they do not enjoy the fundamental in everyday life and that they do not enjoy freedoms and rights laid down in the fundamental freedoms and rights laid numerous EU and UN documents, such as down in the applicable EU and UN mutual recognition of disability status normative and legal frameworks, such as between Member States, access to public mutual recognition of disability status transport, accessibility of the built between Member States, access to public environment, use of sign languages, transport, accessibility of the built financing of and equal access to education environment, use of sign languages, and vocational training, access to personal financing of and equal access to education assistance and community inclusion; and vocational training, access to personal assistance and community inclusion, equality in opportunity and treatment in employment and occupation;

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Amendment 27 Konstantinos Arvanitis

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C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally

PE693.700v01-00 16/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple obstacles and discrimination in everyday life and that discrimination in everyday life and that they do not enjoy the fundamental they are deprived of their fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous freedoms and rights laid down in numerous EU and UN documents, such as mutual EU and UN documents, such as mutual recognition of disability status between recognition of disability status between Member States, access to public transport, Member States, access to the open labour accessibility of the built environment, use market and to work on an equal basis of sign languages, financing of and equal with others, access to public transport, access to education and vocational accessibility of the built environment, use training, access to personal assistance and of sign languages, financing of and equal community inclusion; access to education, vocational training and culture and sport, access to personal assistance and community inclusion;

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Amendment 28 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Recital C

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C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple obstacles and discrimination in everyday life and that difficulties in everyday life and that, in they do not enjoy the fundamental practice, they do not enjoy the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous freedoms and rights proclaimed in EU and UN documents, such as mutual numerous EU and UN documents ratified recognition of disability status between by the Member States, such as mutual Member States, access to public transport, recognition of disability status between accessibility of the built environment, use Member States, access to public transport, of sign languages, financing of and equal accessibility of the built environment, use access to education and vocational training, of sign languages, financing of and equal access to personal assistance and access to education and vocational training, community inclusion; access to personal assistance and community inclusion;

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Amendment 29

AM\1233081EN.docx 17/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Anne Sander

Draft opinion Recital C

Draft opinion Amendment

C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple obstacles and discrimination in everyday life and that discrimination in everyday life and that they do not enjoy the fundamental they do not enjoy the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous freedoms and rights laid down in numerous EU and UN documents, such as mutual EU and UN documents, such as mutual recognition of disability status between recognition of disability status between Member States, access to public transport, Member States, access to public transport, accessibility of the built environment, use accessibility of the built environment, use of sign languages, financing of and equal of sign languages, financing of and equal access to education and vocational training, access to education and vocational training, access to personal assistance and access to the labour market, access to community inclusion; personal assistance and community inclusion;

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Amendment 30 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Recital C

Draft opinion Amendment

C. whereas it is generally C. whereas it is generally acknowledged that persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with disabilities continue to face multiple obstacles and continue to face multiple obstacles and discrimination in everyday life and that discrimination in everyday life and that they do not enjoy the fundamental they do not enjoy the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down in numerous freedoms and rights laid down in numerous EU and UN documents, such as mutual EU and UN documents, such as mutual recognition of disability status between recognition of disability status between Member States, access to public transport, Member States, access to public transport, accessibility of the built environment, use accessibility of the physical1c environment, of sign languages, financing of and equal use of sign languages, financing of and access to education and vocational training, equal access to education and vocational access to personal assistance and training, access to personal assistance and community inclusion; community inclusion;

PE693.700v01-00 18/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN ______1c https://www.un.org/development/desa/disa bilities/convention-on-the-rights-of- persons-with-disabilities/article-9- accessibility.html

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Amendment 31 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C

Draft opinion Amendment

C. whereas it is generally C. whereas persons with disabilities acknowledged that persons with continue to face multiple obstacles and disabilities continue to face multiple discrimination in everyday life and that obstacles and discrimination in everyday they do not enjoy the fundamental life and that they do not enjoy the freedoms and rights laid down in the fundamental freedoms and rights laid down fundamental EU treaties and UN human in numerous EU and UN documents, such rights instruments, such as mutual as mutual recognition of disability status recognition of disability status between between Member States, access to public Member States, access to public transport, transport, accessibility of the built accessibility of the built environment, use environment, use of sign languages, of sign languages, financing of and equal financing of and equal access to education access to education and vocational training, and vocational training, access to personal access to personal assistance and assistance and community inclusion; community inclusion;

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Amendment 32 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania Zambelli, Simona Baldassarre

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

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AM\1233081EN.docx 19/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Ca. whereas the time and financial costs, physical and emotional demands, and logistical problems associated with caring for people with disabilities have far-reaching effects on their family members, and measures supporting families in different fields are therefore necessary; whereas measures to support families will, in turn, have a positive impact on the full and equal recognition of the rights of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 33 Anne Sander

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas progress has been made by means of the strategy on the rights of persons with disabilities, but whereas these persons still face obstacles and discrimination; whereas persons with disabilities are therefore more at risk of poverty and social exclusion and whereas the 2021-2030 strategy will have to address this state of affairs;

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Amendment 34 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas work-related discrimination against persons with

PE693.700v01-00 20/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN disabilities is interrelated with the lack of inclusive education and vocational training, as well as the segregation and discrimination present in the field of housing, healthcare, and the lack of accessibility of transport and other services and products;

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Amendment 35 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas civil society and Third Sector organisations working in the disability sector have shown, yet again during the COVID-19 crisis, their paramount importance and resilience; whereas their role should be acknowledged by the EU institutions and Member States;

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Amendment 36 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas in the report on the Equal treatment in employment and occupation in light of the UNCRPD, the European Parliament revealed the shortcomings of the Council Directive 2000/78/EC establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation;

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Amendment 37 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas unemployment rate among persons with disabilities remains almost twice of the general population and is particularly high among young people and women with disabilities;

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Amendment 38 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Recital C a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ca. whereas the average gap between the employment rates of persons with and without disabilities in the EU is 25%1d; ______1d COM(2019)653/F1 - PL (europa.eu), p.89

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Amendment 39 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital C b (new)

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Cb. whereas the Directive (EU) 2019/1158 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on the work-life balance for parents and carers and the repealing Council Directive 2010/18/EU requires Member States to assess whether the conditions of access to and the detailed arrangements for parental, carers’ and workers leave should be adapted to the specific needs of parents in particular disadvantaged situations, such as parents with a disability, (adoptive, single, separated) parents of children with a disability or a long-term illness, or parents in particular circumstances;

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Amendment 40 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital C b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Cb. whereas persons with disabilities face numerous hurdles in their everyday life, inter alia, when trying to access personal assistance and community inclusion; adequate and affordable accessible housing; access to affordable and accessible health; person-centred social and health care;

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Amendment 41 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion

AM\1233081EN.docx 23/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Recital C b (new)

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Cb. whereas unemployment and lack of quality and sustainable jobs for persons with disabilities are the main factors of high risk of poverty, social exclusion and homelessness among the persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 42 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Cc. whereas in 2017, a third of adults in the EU with a disability lived in households whose financial resources were not sufficient to cover the usual necessary expenses; whereas in 2019, almost two thirds of the EU population with an activity limitation would have been at risk of poverty without social benefits, allowances or pension1a; ______1a European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions.

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Amendment 43 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital C c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

PE693.700v01-00 24/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Cc. whereas the employment rates of persons with disabilities, especially of women and those with primary education remains unacceptably low;

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Amendment 44 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Cd. whereas in 2019, almost 18 million children in the EU (22.2 % of the child population) lived in households at risk of poverty or social exclusion; whereas children with disabilities experience specific disadvantages that make them particularly vulnerable and underscore the importance of guaranteeing free and effective access to early childhood education and care, education and school-based activities, a healthy meal each school day and healthcare, as well as healthy nutrition and adequate housing to children in need;

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Amendment 45 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital C d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Cd. whereas the COVID-19 crisis and its economic and social consequences has exacerbated existing obstacles and inequalities for people with disabilities;

AM\1233081EN.docx 25/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN whereas the EU through NextGenerationEU must support a disability-inclusive COVID-19response and recovery;

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Amendment 46 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Ce. whereas disability is an evolving concept; whereas disability results from the interaction between persons with impairments and attitudinal and environmental barriers that hinders their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; whereas the different definitions of disability, the diversity of disability assessment and the various and often unclear classification methods applied across Member States, as well as the lack of mutual recognition of disability status, hinder freedom of movement within the EU for persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 47 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital C f (new)

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Cf. whereas persons with disabilities are a diverse group and are often subject

PE693.700v01-00 26/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN to intersectional discrimination, the cumulative effects of which have a tangible impact on employment;

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Amendment 48 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D

Draft opinion Amendment

D. whereas several petitions were D. whereas several petitions were submitted in regard to the misuse of EU submitted in regard to the misuse of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation of persons funds for deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities; with disabilities; whereas the progress in deinstitutionalisation is uneven across the Member States and despite the introduction of policies and the allocation of substantial funding in the EU, there are still one million people living in institutions; whereas in February 2021 the European Ombudsman opened an own-initiative inquiry into the role of the Commission in ensuring that Member States use EU funds with a view to promoting independent living for persons with disabilities and older persons, and transitioning away from residential care institutions;

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Amendment 49 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Recital D

Draft opinion Amendment

D. whereas several petitions were D. whereas several petitions were

AM\1233081EN.docx 27/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN submitted in regard to the misuse of EU submitted in regard to the misuse of EU funds for deinstitutionalisation of persons funds for deinstitutionalisation of persons with disabilities; with disabilities; whereas Member States must speed up the process of deinstitutionalisation and the Commission must carefully monitor their progress;

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Amendment 50 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Recital D a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Da. whereas repeatedly in almost all Petitions the argument of limited competences of the EU is brought forward in the answers by the Commission to the Petitioners; whereas in 2008 the Commission presented a proposal to extend beyond employment the protection from discrimination provided by Directive 2000/78 which prohibits discrimination based on disability, age, sexual orientation and religion or belief in the areas of employment and occupation; whereas the new Directive would make the principle of equality applicable to education, to access to goods and services and to social protection, including social security and health care; whereas this proposal has not been adopted yet and has been blocked within the Council for 13 years by now, where unanimity is required for its adoption;

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Amendment 51 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion

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Draft opinion Amendment

Da. whereas, due to the difficult situation during the COVID-19 crisis, institutions for persons with disabilities and older people, such as day centres or schools have been temporarily closed; whereas in this emergency situation the care of persons with intellectual disabilities has fallen to their family members; whereas petitioners have appealed to the Committee on Petitions regarding the institutions that have remained open, pointing to the difficult health situation, the lack of staff, the lack of protective and disinfectant products and, as a consequence, the high rates of illness and death in these institutions;

Or. en

Amendment 52 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Recital D a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Da. whereas the European Pillar of Social Rights establishes as a guideline, in relation to the inclusion of persons with disabilities, that they have the right to a level of income support that enables them to live in dignity, to services enabling them to participate in the labour market and in society, and to a working environment adapted to their needs (Article 17);

Or. es

Amendment 53

AM\1233081EN.docx 29/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Da. whereas COVID-19 pandemic has aggravated the existing inequalities, leading to the disproportionate share of infections and fatalities, as well as greater risk of isolation and social exclusion among the persons with disabilities; whereas persons with disabilities in residential care institutions have been among the most vulnerable and the most negatively affected by the pandemic;

Or. en

Amendment 54 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Recital Δ a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Da. whereas there are various groups of persons with disabilities and some of them, for example women, face additional difficulties and multiple discrimination; whereas different forms of discrimination can lead to social isolation and solitude, psychological trauma and depression;

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Amendment 55 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Recital D a (new)

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Da. whereas the economic crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic poses a serious threat to European economies and the preservation of jobs; whereas people from disadvantaged groups, in particular people with disabilities, have been particularly affected by the pandemic;

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Amendment 56 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Db. whereas COVID-19 prevention measures have created new barriers for persons with disabilities and have exacerbated the existing exclusions in all areas of the world of work; whereas persons with disabilities are more likely to lose work and have difficulties finding employment again; whereas COVID-19 has had negative impact on accessibility and inclusiveness of work organization and work arrangements, as well as employment and working conditions of persons with disabilities, and has exposed many persons with disabilities to negative effects of teleworking;

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Amendment 57 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Recital D b (new)

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Db. whereas the catalogue of allowances and rights deriving from disability status varies from one Member State to another, as do the entities which define and recognise these rights;

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Amendment 58 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Dc. whereas the number of persons with disabilities and persons in need of care and long-term care is expected to grow dramatically also in the EU due, among other factors, to demographic challenges and increase in chronic health conditions; whereas most long-term care is currently provided by informal, usually unpaid, and predominantly female carers; whereas policies for tackling demographic challenges and responding to the growing care and long-term needs should be designed in such a manner that they do not lead to increased pressure on informal carers;

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Amendment 59 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D d (new)

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Dd. whereas disability is often a result of occupational injury or is acquired through chronic condition related to occupational disease and exposure to health hazards;

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Amendment 60 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Recital D e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

De. whereas commitment for better inclusion and realization of rights of persons with disabilities should be reflected in all policy fields, including in the European Semester process;

Or. en

Amendment 61 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

Draft opinion Amendment

1. Calls on the Commission to ensure 1. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Member States comply with the that the EU and the Member States to fully relevant EU and UN obligations on the comply with the relevant EU and UN rights of persons with disabilities, in obligations on the rights of persons with particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD disabilities, in particular the UN CRPD and Committee’s General Comments to the the CRPD Committee’s General Convention, and with the relevant EU Comments to the Convention, and with the measures and funding rules, and to provide relevant EU measures and funding rules, support to them in this regard; and to provide support to them in this

AM\1233081EN.docx 33/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN regard; calls on the Commission to ensure that the use of Structural funds upholds the rights of persons with disabilities and fully complies with the aims, goals and principles enshrined in the UN CRPD, such as independent living, inter alia by setting up special monitoring and individual complaint system;

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Amendment 62 Jordi Cañas, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

Draft opinion Amendment

1. Calls on the Commission to ensure 1. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Member States comply with the that the Member States comply with all relevant EU and UN obligations on the relevant EU and UN obligations on the rights of persons with disabilities, in rights of persons with disabilities, in particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD Committee’s General Comments to the Committee’s General Comments to the Convention, and with the relevant EU Convention, and with the relevant EU measures and funding rules, and to provide measures and funding rules, and to provide support to them in this regard; support to them and their families in this regard; calls for the EU and those Member States who have not yet done so to ratify the Optional Protocol to the UNCRPD; highlights that a social model where disability is mainstreamed across public policies is necessary;

Or. en

Amendment 63 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

Draft opinion Amendment

PE693.700v01-00 34/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN 1. Calls on the Commission to ensure 1. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Member States comply with the that the Member States comply with the relevant EU and UN obligations on the relevant EU and UN obligations on the rights of persons with disabilities, in rights of persons with disabilities, in particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD Committee’s General Comments to the Committee’s General Comments to the Convention, and with the relevant EU Convention, and with the relevant EU measures and funding rules, and to provide measures and funding rules, and to provide support to them in this regard; support to them and enable exchange of the best practices in this regard;

Or. en

Amendment 64 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

Draft opinion Amendment

1. Calls on the Commission to ensure 1. Calls on the Member States to that the Member States comply with the ensure that they comply with the relevant relevant EU and UN obligations on the obligations derived from EU and UN law rights of persons with disabilities, in on the rights of persons with disabilities, particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD insofar as they apply to them, in particular Committee’s General Comments to the the UN CRPD and the CRPD Committee’s Convention, and with the relevant EU General Comments to the Convention, and measures and funding rules, and to provide with the relevant EU measures and funding support to them in this regard; rules, and to provide support to them in this regard;

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Amendment 65 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 1

Draft opinion Amendment

1. Calls on the Commission to ensure 1. Calls on the Commission to ensure that the Member States comply with the that the Member States comply with all relevant EU and UN obligations on the relevant EU and UN obligations on the

AM\1233081EN.docx 35/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN rights of persons with disabilities, in rights of persons with disabilities, in particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD particular the UN CRPD and the CRPD Committee’s General Comments to the Committee’s General Comments to the Convention, and with the relevant EU Convention, and with the relevant EU measures and funding rules, and to provide measures and funding rules, and to provide support to them in this regard; support to them in this regard;

Or. en

Amendment 66 Anne Sander

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Points out that the Committee on Petitions plays a specific protection role in ensuring that the EU complies with the United Nations Convention on the Rights for Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in policy-making and legislative actions at EU level; in the context of that responsibility, the Committee handles petitions on disability issues, organises debates, thematic workshops and public hearings on the subject, drafts resolutions and reports and carries out field missions;

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Amendment 67 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Welcomes the plans of the Commission to examine the functioning of the EU framework for monitoring the implementation of the UN CRPD in 2022

PE693.700v01-00 36/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN and propose actions on this basis; calls on the Commission to strengthen the EU framework and its independence, above all by ensuring greater involvement and participation of experts, non- governmental organizations, social partners and particularly persons with disabilities themselves, without discrimination to the type of disability or any other personal circumstance;

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Amendment 68 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania Zambelli, Simona Baldassarre

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Points out that EU funds should never finance inaccessible products, services or infrastructure; encourages Member States to guarantee full mobility for people with disabilities also by removing architectural barriers which prevent people with disabilities from moving freely;

Or. it

Amendment 69 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Stresses that Member States should step up their efforts in providing support for persons with disabilities in the following priority areas: health,

AM\1233081EN.docx 37/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN education, accessibility, employment and working conditions, independent living, coordination, living conditions, social protection and raising awareness;

Or. en

Amendment 70 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1 a. Urges a swift revision of the Employment Equality Directive with a view to fully harmonising it with the provisions of the UNCRPD and implementing a participatory process aimed at ensuring the direct and full involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 71 Radan Kanev

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Calls on the Commission to support Member States to ensure the necessary conditions–on local, regional, and national level – to allow people with disabilities to enjoy their rights to free movement, self-determination and personal choices on equal basis with others;

Or. en

PE693.700v01-00 38/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Amendment 72 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Calls on the Commission, should a new European framework be established as a follow-up to the European Accessibility Act, to draw up a proposal that preserves Member States’ competences on social matters;

Or. es

Amendment 73 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Calls on the Commission to assess if in the PETI Committee mentioned wrong-doing and mentioned missing competences due to a missing legal base, can be approached in future policy making and policy assessment procedures;

Or. en

Amendment 74 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

AM\1233081EN.docx 39/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN 1a. Stresses the need for Member States to provide primary health care; programmes for the prevention of accidents, including adaptation of workplaces to prevent occupational diseases and injury2a; ______2a Khasnabis C, Heinicke Motsch K, Achu K, et al., editors. Community-Based Rehabilitation: CBR Guidelines. Geneva: World Health Organization; 2010. Prevention. Available from: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK 310943/

Or. en

Amendment 75 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1a. Calls for the full implementation by Member States of Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation;

Or. pl

Amendment 76 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1b. Stresses that in order to have

PE693.700v01-00 40/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN effective access to justice through the petitions to the European Parliament, persons with disabilities should have access to the necessary support and assistance in drafting and submitting petitions that fulfil the admissibility criteria; calls for a better visibility of the petitions mechanism through more awareness raising, as well as inclusion and participation of persons with disabilities or their representatives in the consideration of petitions;

Or. en

Amendment 77 Jordi Cañas, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1b. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to support Social Economy organisations as they are a lever to boost the creation of decent jobs including for people with disabilities; invites the Commission to develop a crosscutting disability approach and adequate supports within the European Action Plan for the Social Economy;

Or. en

Amendment 78 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1b. Calls on the EU institutions and the Member States to reaffirm their

AM\1233081EN.docx 41/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN commitment to realising inclusive equality for persons with disabilities and to fully implement the UNCRPD, including its Article 27 on work and employment;

Or. en

Amendment 79 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1c. Urges the European institutions to improve the accessibilities' level and quality in all of their buildings, as well as to remove the existing barriers to the European institutions' websites, debates and documentation, i.e. the accessibility barriers to the communication of the information produced, by e.g. providing translation into the Sign Language of the different Member States, documents in Braille, documents in easy language, among others;

Or. en

Amendment 80 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1c. Underlines the need for the EU framework for monitoring the implementation of the UN CRPD, including the petitions to the European Parliament, to be based on detailed and disaggregated data, better reflecting the

PE693.700v01-00 42/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN provisions of the UN CRPD and specific issues within the competences of the Committee on Employment and Social Affairs;

Or. en

Amendment 81 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1c. Highlights that job-matching, vocational profiling, concurrent employment and training, in-work induction and training support, as well as career development opportunities play an important role in persons with disabilities securing and retaining paid employment;

Or. en

Amendment 82 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1d. Underlines the importance of active involvement and participation of persons with disabilities, their representative organizations, social partners and all other relevant stakeholders in the implementation and monitoring of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, national disability strategies and recovery and resilience plans after the COVID-19 pandemic;

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Amendment 83 Jordi Cañas, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1d. Recalls that Parliament has asked the Member States to examine the introduction of quotas for persons with disabilities to foster inclusive workplaces; invites Member States and the EU institutions to lead by example by introducing them in their administrations;

Or. en

Amendment 84 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1e. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to step up their efforts in tackling the persisting disability employment gap and to foster access of persons with disabilities to quality and sustainable jobs; welcomes in this regard the proposal of the Commission in the European Pillar of Social Rights Action Plan to include the disability employment gap in the revised social scoreboard;

Or. en

Amendment 85

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Draft opinion Paragraph 1 e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1e. Urges Member States to develop national action plans that address the shortcomings in the access to public safety-related information, distance and online learning, personal assistance, care and support services for people with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 86 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1f. Calls on the Member States to take an intersectional approach, especially in their policies and measures for creating inclusive employment; regrets that multiple and intersectional discrimination are insufficiently addressed in the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030; calls therefore on the Commission to place special emphasis on intersectionality in the implementation of the Strategy and to set clear, measurable and ambitious targets relating to workplace diversity reflecting the heterogeneity of persons with disabilities, to address multiple and intersectional discrimination; stresses the importance of monitoring the efficiency of the strategy with the involvement of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations;

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Amendment 87 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 f (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1f. Invites the Commission to ensure that the design of the Europass Digital Credentials Infrastructure is accessible to all individuals; regrets the very limited attention paid to the needs of persons with disabilities in the Final Report on a European Approach to Micro-credentials published by the Commission’s Higher Education Consultation Group; calls on the Commission to ensure that the upcoming EU approach to micro- credentials for lifelong learning and employability is accessible and reflects on how to improve the employability of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 88 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1g. Calls on the Member States to support employment services and raise awareness of inclusive employment practices in the open labour market, such as adapted recruitment procedures, job carving, customised, flexible and supported employment, job sharing, individual placement and support, and

PE693.700v01-00 46/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN inclusive enterprises, and put in place adequate incentives and support measures for companies that recruit persons with disabilities; calls on the Member States to promote corporate social responsibility concerning the employment of persons of disabilities and support social economy organisations which reinvest their profits in social goals; points to inclusive education and vocational training programmes as one of the key prerequisites for a more inclusive labour market;

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Amendment 89 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 g (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1g. Calls on the Member States to use incentives and financial support for micro and small and medium enterprises that recruit and train persons with disabilities, as well as to ensure that general self- employment schemes are accessible to and supportive of persons with disabilities;

Or. en

Amendment 90 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1h. Calls on the Member States to stimulate work-place adaptations and take

AM\1233081EN.docx 47/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN actions to improve occupational health and safety; calls on the Commission to pay special attention to workers with disabilities in the upcoming EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work and to set ambitious goals, aiming at zero fatal accidents at work, zero work-related cancer and better prevention of occupational diseases, musculoskeletal disorders and psychosocial risks;

Or. en

Amendment 91 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 h (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1h. Invites the Commission and the Member States to ensure that rural development programmes and strategies include specific outreach measures for rural persons with disabilities and involve them in the design and implementation of said programmes and strategies;

Or. en

Amendment 92 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1i. Calls on the Member States to take advantage of the opportunities that the reinforced Youth Guarantee provides for employment, education, traineeship or apprenticeship of young persons with

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Or. en

Amendment 93 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 i (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1i. Calls on the Member States to improve the accessibility of information provided by the public administration in open and accessible formats;

Or. en

Amendment 94 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1j. Calls on the Member States to swiftly implement and invest all available resources, both national and EU, in the European Child Guarantee; stresses the importance of early, individualised and comprehensive support to children with disabilities, their parents and carers; calls on Member States to pay special attention to children with disabilities and special educational needs, as well as measures to support the transition from institutional to quality family and community-based care; welcomes in this regard that the European Child Guarantee recognises children with disabilities as one of the 6

AM\1233081EN.docx 49/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN most vulnerable and target groups of children in need;

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Amendment 95 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 j (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1j. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to ensure the cognitive, sensory and physical accessibility of EU initiatives on the digitalisation of the labour market;

Or. en

Amendment 96 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 k (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1k. Calls on the Member States to uphold the right of persons with disabilities to live independently and be included in the community by enabling the transition from institutional to quality, accessible, affordable and person-centred community-and family-based care;

Or. en

Amendment 97 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion

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Draft opinion Amendment

1l. Encourages Member States to facilitate early access to public pension schemes for persons with significant and severe disabilities to combat the risk of poverty and social exclusion in old age;

Or. en

Amendment 98 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 1 m (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

1m. Invites the Committee on Petitions to collect and provide publicly statistical data on the treatment of petitions, including on the satisfaction of petitioners with the petitions process; calls on the Committee of Petitions to develop an index of conformity and successful implementation of the recommendations issued to national authorities by the Committee of Petitions; stresses the need for the Committee on Petitions to ensure the possibility of interpreting in sign language in relevant hearings;

Or. en

Amendment 99 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

Draft opinion Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission and the 2. Calls on the Commission and the

AM\1233081EN.docx 51/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Member States to harmonise the definition Member States to harmonise the definition of disability and to ensure mutual of disability in line with the Concluding recognition of disability status across Observations of the CRPD Committee to Member States, so as to ensure the free the EU adopted in 2015 and to ensure movement of persons with disabilities and mutual recognition of disability status their enjoyment of their EU citizenship across Member States, so as to ensure the rights; free movement of persons with disabilities, their enjoyment and recognition of their EU citizenship rights; urges the Commission and the Member States to assess the concept of chronic pain/diseases with a view to including it a harmonised EU definition of disability as requested by the Parliament in its resolution of 18 June 2020 on the European Disability Strategy post-2020;

Or. en

Amendment 100 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

Draft opinion Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission and the 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to harmonise the definition Member States to conduct a thorough of disability and to ensure mutual analysis of the national legislations recognition of disability status across concerning the criteria for the recognition Member States, so as to ensure the free of disability and its degrees and based on movement of persons with disabilities and this, harmonise the definition of disability their enjoyment of their EU citizenship and to ensure mutual recognition of rights; disability status across Member States, so as to ensure the free movement of persons with disabilities and their enjoyment of their EU citizenship rights;

Or. en

Amendment 101 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion

PE693.700v01-00 52/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Paragraph 2

Draft opinion Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission and the 2. Calls on the Commission to Member States to harmonise the definition facilitate exchanges between Member of disability and to ensure mutual States on their respective best practices recognition of disability status across regarding the definition of disability; calls Member States, so as to ensure the free on the Member States to ensure mutual movement of persons with disabilities and recognition of disability status, so as to their enjoyment of their EU citizenship ensure the free movement of persons with rights; disabilities and their effective enjoyment of their EU citizenship rights;

Or. es

Amendment 102 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

Draft opinion Amendment

2. Calls on the Commission and the 2. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to harmonise the definition Member States to adopt a uniform of disability and to ensure mutual European definition of disability, in line recognition of disability status across with Article 1 of the UN CRPD, and to Member States, so as to ensure the free ensure mutual recognition of disability movement of persons with disabilities and status across Member States, so as to their enjoyment of their EU citizenship ensure the free movement of persons with rights; disabilities and their enjoyment of their EU citizenship rights;

Or. en

Amendment 103 Joanna Kopcińska

Draft opinion Paragraph 2

Draft opinion Amendment

AM\1233081EN.docx 53/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN 2. Calls on the Commission and the 2. Calls on the Member States to Member States to harmonise the definition ensure mutual recognition of disability of disability and to ensure mutual status across Member States based on the recognition of disability status across Convention definition of disability, so as Member States, so as to ensure the free to ensure the free movement of persons movement of persons with disabilities and with disabilities and their enjoyment of their enjoyment of their EU citizenship their EU citizenship rights; rights;

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Amendment 104 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2a. Calls on the Commission and the Member States to better acknowledge the importance of accessible and quality support services and systems for independent living; stresses the need to promote strategies and standards for personalised quality support for dependent persons with disabilities and their carers, including improved social protection and various forms of support for informal carers; calls on the Commission to present a strategic EU care agenda as a further step forward in qualitatively empowering the healthcare sector in the EU, including personal and household services workers; reiterates that the care agenda needs also to reflect the situation of the 100 million informal carers in the EU, who provide 80 % of long-term care but remain mostly unrecognised;

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Amendment 105

PE693.700v01-00 54/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2a. Calls on the Commission to conduct a comprehensive update of EU disability strategy and funding programmes with a view to complying fully with the CRPD by constructively involving disability organisations; calls on the Commission and the Member States to involve disability organisations in the dialogue and in all stages of the implementation of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021- 2030;

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Amendment 106 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania Zambelli, Simona Baldassarre

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2a. Calls on the Commission to propose an EU Charter of Fundamental Rights for Persons with Disabilities in order to establish common standards and rights (civil, political, economic and social) for persons with disabilities and to ensure their respect and recognition across all EU Member States;

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Amendment 107 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

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2a. Notes that Article 27 of the UNCRPD recognises the right of persons with disabilities to work on an equal basis with others and to gain a living by work freely chosen; calls on the Member States to ensure that the labour market and work environments are open, inclusive and accessible to persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 108 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2b. Looks forward to the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities’ upcoming General comment No. 8 on Article 27 of the CRDP on the right to work and employment; urges the Member States to create an inclusive and non-discriminatory working environment for persons with disabilities taking into consideration their low rate of employment;

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Amendment 109 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

PE693.700v01-00 56/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN 2c. Calls on the Member States to address the underdevelopment and underfunding of public employment services with a view to improving the employment rate of persons with disabilities; urges the Member States to strengthen the links of public employment services with referring agencies;

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Amendment 110 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 d (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2d. Highlights the positive role played by UNCRPD-compliant sheltered workplaces in the transition of persons with disabilities to the open labour market;

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Amendment 111 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 e (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2e. Urges the Member States to support rights-based, inclusive and decent Individual Placement and Support (“Supported Employment”) models as a means of transition, when possible, into the open labour market for persons with disabilities;

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AM\1233081EN.docx 57/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Amendment 112 Jordi Cañas, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 2 f (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

2f. Reiterates Parliament's call on the Member States to support inclusive companies that provide employment for workers with disabilities in the open labour market through public procurement, as well as Social Economy organisations;

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Amendment 113 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card will be available by the end of 2023; of 2023; Calls on the Commission to put forward a clear legislative proposal on the EU-wide Disability Card in a timely manner so the Card is available for all persons with disabilities within this time frame; Calls on the Commission in this regard to use the digital tools to create the EU-wide Disability Card widely accepted, accessible for all persons with disabilities and interconnected with other tools like Disability Parking Card; Calls furthermore on the Commission to use the European Disability Card to clarify all aspects of the portability of all rights connected to the officially recognized

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Amendment 114 Jordi Cañas, Samira Rafaela, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card to expand the scope of the of 2023; mutual recognition of disability status in areas such as labour mobility and benefits related to conditions of service provision will be available by the end of 2023; and calls on the Commission and the Member States to be bold regarding the scope of entitlements the Card will afford its users as well as in ensuring that it is implemented in every Member State, by way of binding EU legislation;

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Amendment 115 Antonius Manders

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card ensuring that every EU of 2023; citizen and resident covered by it has the same rights as nationals and residents of the Member State where they are temporarily staying will be available by

AM\1233081EN.docx 59/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN the end of 2023 and calls on the Commission to ensure that older people with reduced mobility are also covered through this card, therefore to be renamed 'European Disability and Elderly Card';

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Amendment 116 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card will be available by the end of 2023; of 2023; calls on the Commission and the Member States to be ambitious regarding the scope of entitlements the Card would guarantee its users and in ensuring that it is implemented in every single EU Member State, by way of binding EU legislation if necessary;

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Amendment 117 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card will be available by the end of 2023; of 2023 and calls on the Commission to

PE693.700v01-00 60/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN grant the EU-wide Disability Card with a strong scope harmonising the status and definition of disability and making the Card mandatory for all Member States;

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Amendment 118 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card will be available in a of 2023; readable form that is acceptable to all service providers in every Member State by the end of 2023;

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Amendment 119 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania Zambelli, Simona Baldassarre

Draft opinion Paragraph 3

Draft opinion Amendment

3. Welcomes the fact that as part of 3. Welcomes the fact that as part of the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with the Strategy for the Rights of Persons with Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disabilities 2021-2030, an EU-wide Disability Card will be available by the end Disability Card will be available by the end of 2023; of 2023; hopes that this will happen as soon as possible and, in any case, no later than 2023;

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AM\1233081EN.docx 61/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN Amendment 120 Antonius Manders

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Notes that in some EU-countries where a Disability Card has already been introduced, there have been reports of misuse, sometimes leading to negative consequences for persons truly eligible; therefore stresses the need to raise awareness at all levels and take measures to prevent misuse of the new EU-wide European Disability Card;

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Amendment 121 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. Urges the Member States to ensure that people with disabilities are involved in the policy-making process without any restrictions; notes that the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities requires full involvement in policy making, which means allowing people with disabilities to participate and be represented in policy formulation and decision making in all areas at European, national and local level, in line with the principle of disability mainstreaming;

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Amendment 122 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania

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Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. Considers it necessary to reduce the red tape that complicates the lives of persons with disabilities and their family members, by simplifying access to services and encouraging the recognition and certification of disability status;

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Amendment 123 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3a. Points out that a new European disability card should be adapted to the Member States’ own social models;

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Amendment 124 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 3 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

3b. Stresses that Article 19 of the CRPD sets out the right to live independently and be included in the community; calls on the Member States to bring about a change in living conditions for persons with disabilities, involving a shift away from institutional

AM\1233081EN.docx 63/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN arrangements towards social integration, with the provision of community services in line with the wishes and preferences of each individual; calls on the Member States to include specific targets with clear deadlines in their deinstitutionalisation strategies and provide adequate funding for the implementation thereof;

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Amendment 125 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls on the Member States to 4. Calls on the Commission and the undertake national disability awareness Member States to undertake national campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and disability awareness campaigns promoting the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and the UN CRPD and the EU Disability to ensure compliance with the Strategy 2021-2030 that are accessible for commitments outlined in these documents; all and which involve persons with disabilities, their representative family members and organisations; stresses that those national disability awareness campaigns should place a special focus on the business environment as a lever for inclusion as well as the public administration and to ensure compliance with the obligations and commitments outlined in these documents;

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Amendment 126 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

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4. Calls on the Member States to 4. Calls on the Member States to undertake national disability awareness undertake national disability awareness campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and to ensure compliance with the to come up with strong ambitious commitments outlined in these documents; inclusive national disability strategies that go beyond the minimum targets mentioned in the EU Disability Strategy and to ensure compliance with the commitments outlined in these documents;

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Amendment 127 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls on the Member States to 4. Calls on the Member States to undertake national disability awareness undertake national disability awareness campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, to to ensure compliance with the adopt ambitious timelines and a set of commitments outlined in these documents; detailed indicators to measure the progress in implementation of their goals and objectives, and to ensure compliance of all actors with the commitments outlined in these documents;

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Amendment 128 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

AM\1233081EN.docx 65/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN 4. Calls on the Member States to 4. Calls on the Member States to undertake national disability awareness undertake national disability awareness campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and to the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and ensure compliance with the commitments to ensure compliance with the outlined in that document; commitments outlined in these documents;

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Amendment 129 Jordi Cañas

Draft opinion Paragraph 4

Draft opinion Amendment

4. Calls on the Member States to 4. Calls on the Member States to undertake national disability awareness undertake national disability awareness- campaigns promoting the UN CRPD and raising campaigns promoting the UN the EU Disability Strategy 2021-2030, and CRPD and the EU Disability Strategy to ensure compliance with the 2021-2030, and to ensure compliance with commitments outlined in these documents; the commitments outlined in these documents;

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Amendment 130 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Calls for the collection of EU-wide disability-related data with a human rights-based approach and of data related to the impact of the so-called COVID-19 crisis on persons with disabilities in order to provide the evidence needed to scale up rapid assessments and urgently develop strategies and prepare interventions together with the Member States to revert the backlash in terms of rights and

PE693.700v01-00 66/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN development observed due to the implementation of containment measures of the COVID-19;

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Amendment 131 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Calls on the Member States to guarantee the right and access to education for every child and to establish structures of inclusive education, face-to- face or digital when needed, from early childhood to adolescence, including for Romani children, children with disabilities, stateless and migrant children and those living in humanitarian emergency settings; and irrespectively of special circumstances such as Pandemics like COVID 19;

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Amendment 132 Antonio Maria Rinaldi, Elena Lizzi, Mara Bizzotto, Gianantonio Da Re, Stefania Zambelli, Simona Baldassarre

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Highlights the key role of carer family members, who often fulfil the care and assistance needs of the persons with disabilities; underlines, in this regard, the need for EU and national policies and strategies to provide strong support to family members and caregivers;

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Amendment 133 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Calls on the Commission and Member States to include in European structural and investment fund planning and programming appropriations earmarked for policies and objectives seeking to improve the living conditions of persons with disabilities, while respecting the principles of accessibility and non- discrimination;

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Amendment 134 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

4a. Calls on the Member States and the European institutions to ensure access to information on citizens' and workers' rights in formats accessible to people with various types of disabilities;

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Amendment 135 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 4 b (new)

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4b. Calls on the Council to present a strong Council Recommendation on the European Child Guarantee and calls on the Members States to bring forward multi-annual national strategies for tackling child poverty and social exclusion and Child Guarantee national action plans accordingly, that also ensure inclusive education;

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Amendment 136 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to implement without delay Directive (EU) implement without delay Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) in order to effectively remove barriers for in order to effectively remove barriers for workers with disabilities, and to ensure the workers with disabilities, and to ensure the availability of accessible services and the availability of accessible services and the suitability of the conditions under which suitability of the conditions under which these services are provided; these services are provided, with an emphasis on services in the community, with a view to implementing national deinstitutionalisation strategies; stresses the need to bring Member State strategies and EU funding more closely into line with the provisions of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with a view to ensuring the mutual recognition of deinstitutionalisation and 'independent living in the community';

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Amendment 137 Anne Sander

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5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Points out that petitioners’ most implement without delay Directive (EU) common concerns regarding the equality 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) of persons with disabilities centre around in order to effectively remove barriers for accessibility and social protection, along workers with disabilities, and to ensure the with employment rights and the right to availability of accessible services and the live independently in the community; suitability of the conditions under which calls, therefore, on the Member States to these services are provided; implement without delay Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) in order to effectively remove barriers for workers with disabilities, and to ensure the availability of accessible services and the suitability of the conditions under which these services are provided;

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Amendment 138 Miriam Lexmann

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to implement without delay Directive (EU) implement without delay Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) in order to effectively remove barriers for in order to effectively remove barriers for workers with disabilities, and to ensure the workers with disabilities, and to ensure the availability of accessible services and the availability of accessible services and the suitability of the conditions under which suitability of the conditions under which these services are provided; these services are provided; Calls on the Member States to consider the interconnectivity between the accessibility of services and accessibility of the built environment and take it into account when transposing the European Accessibility Act into their national legislation;

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Amendment 139 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to fully implement without delay Directive (EU) implement and continuously monitor all 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) accessibility-related legislation, including in order to effectively remove barriers for the European Accessibility Act, the workers with disabilities, and to ensure the Audiovisual Media Services Directive, the availability of accessible services and the Telecoms Package and the Web suitability of the conditions under which Accessibility Directive in order to these services are provided; effectively remove and prevent barriers and to improve accessibility to products and services for persons with disabilities, as well as to ensure the availability of accessible services and the suitability of the conditions under which these services are provided;

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Amendment 140 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 5

Draft opinion Amendment

5. Calls on the Member States to 5. Calls on the Member States to implement without delay Directive (EU) implement without delay Directive (EU) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) 2019/882 (the European Accessibility Act) in order to effectively remove barriers for in order to effectively and definitively workers with disabilities, and to ensure the remove barriers for workers with availability of accessible services and the disabilities, and to ensure the availability of suitability of the conditions under which accessible services and the suitability of these services are provided; the conditions under which these services are provided;

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Amendment 141 Antonius Manders

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 – subparagraph 1 (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

Notes that in an emergency situation, general escape routes may not be suitable for elderly people and people with disabilities; therefore welcomes that a specific escape route designation for disabled people is expected to be included in an ISO standard in 2022 and calls on the Member States to introduce a specific escape route designation for disabled and elderly people for use in public buildings in their national legislation;

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Amendment 142 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Points out that hiring support systems cannot reduce the wage costs of PwD, particularly through public co- funding; points out that the hiring of PwD must be based on the employment framework applied to other workers, in terms of pay and working time arrangements, with that framework being adapted to their needs; takes the view that PwD cannot be included in the open labour market without a general framework of employment regulation, and both wage and collective bargaining

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Amendment 143 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Stresses the need to step up research and innovation in the field of accessible technology, including solutions for broadening teleworking opportunities, in order to strengthen the inclusiveness of labour markets for persons with disabilities; reiterates Parliament's call on the Commission to propose a legislative framework with a view to regulating telework conditions across the EU and ensure decent and accessible working and employment conditions;

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Amendment 144 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Calls on the Member States to explore the opportunities brought by digitalisation and recognise the value of assistive and adaptive technologies for persons with disabilities, with due regard to protection of personal data and ethical concerns; recalls that potential of the use of digital tools and assistive technologies depends on the opportunities of persons

AM\1233081EN.docx 73/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN with disabilities to develop their digital skills;

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Amendment 145 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Calls on the Commission, should an AccessibleEU resource centre be established, to include it in the organisation chart of DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion; considers that the need for an EU accessibility agency should be analysed in connection with the existing agency, the ELA, with a view to improving recognition of its competences in social matters;

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Amendment 146 Katrin Langensiepen

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Calls on the Commission to start the revision of the Employment Equality Directive as soon as possible with a view to fully harmonising it with the provisions of the UNCRPD and implementing a participatory process aimed at ensuring the direct and full involvement of representative organisations of persons with disabilities;

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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Urges the Commission and Member States to introduce public and private sector workplace quotas for persons with disabilities in order to foster an inclusive workplace;

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Amendment 148 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5a. Calls on the Commission to submit without delay a proposal for European regulations laying down accessibility standards for public transport and the built environment;

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Amendment 149 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Urges the European Commission to improve its support to the public investment that aims to answer effectively to the shortcomings that people with

AM\1233081EN.docx 75/91 PE693.700v01-00 EN disabilities face while accessing public buildings, infrastructures and virtual governmental services (either national, regional or local); urges, in this sense, the European Commission to provide non- repayable financing and to exclude all the referred public investment from the budgetary deficit criteria;

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Amendment 150 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Calls on the Member States to take advantage of opportunities provided by the EU Funds to guarantee and support full accessibility of public spaces and transport, communication means and financial services;

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Amendment 151 Jarosław Duda

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Calls on the Member States to take steps to increase the accessibility of public transport and the built environment and to disseminate good practices in this field;

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Draft opinion Paragraph 5 b (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5b. Highlights the need for financial assistance to enable persons with disabilities to hire or employ specially qualified helpers;

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Amendment 153 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

5c. Calls on the Commission to guarantee that EU funds do not support any measures and programmes that contribute to segregation or to social exclusion; and calls on the Commission to fund actions creating accessible environments, products, services, practices and devices, fostering deinstitutionalisation and supporting personal assistance, and to guarantee that EU-funded actions reach PwD and ensure their active involvement in society;

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Amendment 154 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

Draft opinion Paragraph 5 c (new)

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5c. Highlights the importance of swift incorporation of accessibility concerns in all relevant policies and instruments, including public procurement rules and accessibility of petitions to the European parliament;

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Amendment 155 Jordi Cañas, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Urges the Member States to ensure 6. Reminds the Member States of adequate social security coordination for Action line No.5 ix of the Council of persons with disabilities, including through Europe Disability Action Plan whereby the ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) disincentives to work in disability benefit No 883/2004. systems shall be removed and beneficiaries encouraged to work when they can; urges the Member States to ensure adequate social security for persons with disabilities, including by ensuring they continue to receive disability supports covering their disability-related extra costs even when entering the labour market or when surpassing a certain income threshold in order to support their labour market integration and help guarantee their dignity and equality as well as improving social security portability for persons with disabilities through the ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 and working alongside representative organisations of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 156

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Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Urges the Member States to ensure 6. Urges the Member States to ensure adequate social security coordination for adequate social protection and to allow persons with disabilities, including through sufficient flexibility in the provision of the ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) social support and benefits to ensure their No 883/2004. adjustability to the individual needs and career paths of PwD; urges also adequate social security coordination for persons with disabilities, including through the ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) No 883/2004;

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Amendment 157 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq

Draft opinion Paragraph 6

Draft opinion Amendment

6. Urges the Member States to ensure 6. Urges the Member States to ensure adequate social security coordination for adequate social security coordination for persons with disabilities, including through persons with disabilities, including through the ongoing revision of Regulation (EC) the revision of Regulation (EC) No No 883/2004. 883/2004; calls therefore for its swift adoption;

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Amendment 158 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new)

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6a. Regrets the fact that EU's vaccination strategy has excluded PwD and their support network from the priority groups; urges that PwD and their support network are offered priority access to vaccination; calls, on this regard, that receiving a COVID-19 vaccination must be based on free and informed consent of PwD and that autonomy and legal capacity of all PwD including persons with intellectual disabilities, persons with psychosocial disabilities and autistic persons must not be undermined with justifications such as public good or the best interest of the person;

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Amendment 159 Konstantinos Arvanitis

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new)

Draft opinion Amendment

6a. Is concerned about the high unemployment rates of persons with disabilities, especially women, compared to other groups in the European Union; calls on the Commission and Member States to promote and ensure a legislative and policy-making framework for admission to the labour market of persons with disabilities, especially women, including those with hidden disabilities, chronic illnesses or learning difficulties;

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Amendment 160 Jarosław Duda

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6a. Calls on the Member States to create the conditions for increasing the employment of people with disabilities in the open labour market, including through the use of modern technologies, artificial intelligence, the development of a personal assistance system and the removal of barriers to accessibility to information, services, public transport and the built environment; calls on the Commission and the Member States to promote good practices in this regard;

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Amendment 161 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Samira Rafaela

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new)

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6a. Urges Member States to develop employment prospects for persons with disabilities by improving their implementation of Council Directive 2000/78/EC on non-discrimination in employment, particularly Article 5 on reasonable accommodation; calls on Member States to invest EU funds and Recovery and Resilience Facility funding in job creation and training for persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 162 Katrin Langensiepen

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6a. Calls on the Member States to make use of the European Social Fund (ESF+), the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), the Erasmus programme, and the Just Transition Fund, which provide EU financial assistance for improving the situation of persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 163 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq

Draft opinion Paragraph 6 a (new)

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6a. Calls on the Council to unblock the negotiations on the proposed horizontal anti-discrimination directive without any further delay and move towards an agreement, thereby extending protection to persons with disabilities outside the sphere of employment;

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Amendment 164 Joanna Kopcińska

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6a. Stresses that persons with disabilities should be guaranteed access to health care and education, including during crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic, and Member States should tackle all forms of discrimination and exclusion in this area;

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Amendment 165 Radan Kanev

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6a. Regrets the fact that the EU Funds continue to be used to build new segregating settings for persons with disabilities in a number of member states;

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Amendment 166 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

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6a. Points out that a new EU Disability Platform should be aligned with the guidelines set in the European Pillar of Social Rights;

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Amendment 167

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6b. Points out that the COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated the need for the entire population to be able to benefit from digital transition without any discrimination or exclusion; emphasises the importance of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) for mobility, communication and access to public services for people with disabilities; calls on the Commission and Member States to actively promote the participation of persons with disabilities by providing the appropriate means of ensuring their access to online public services;

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Amendment 168 Katrin Langensiepen

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6b. Calls on the European Court of Auditors to assess the performance of EU programmes, with special emphasis on education and employment programmes, for example the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+), the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI), the European Regional Development Fund(ERDF), and Erasmus+, in a thorough manner; as they often times fail to reach out to the most deprived groups, including persons with disabilities;

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6b. Welcomes the efforts to revise Regulation 1260/2013 on European demographic statistics; invites the Commission to include in its modernisation of European population statistics the need to disaggregate data according to the nature of a person's disability, building on the Washington Group on Disability Statistics; highlights the importance of up-to-date, quality, disaggregated data for policy-making;

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Amendment 170 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

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6b. Calls for a European and national investigations in the disproportionate infection and death rates due to COVID- 19 in nursing and care homes, residential services for older people and person with disabilities and other social services, with a view of understanding the causes, identifying the responsibilities and taking the necessary measures to prevent such cases in the future;

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6b. Calls for sites, where vaccinations are delivered, are physically accessible and live guidance and assistance is provided for those who need it; calls for free or low-cost targeted programs for accessible transportation wherever necessary;

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Amendment 172 Margarita de la Pisa Carrión

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6b. Points out that a new EU Disability Platform should preserve EU and Member State competences in social matters;

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Amendment 173 Katrin Langensiepen

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6c. Calls on the Commission and Member States to include in the final work programmes and national operational programmes clear objectives

PE693.700v01-00 86/91 AM\1233081EN.docx EN and measures to improve the living and working conditions of persons with disabilities, while respecting the principles of accessibility and non-discrimination, and investing in equal opportunities and the participation of persons with disabilities in all areas of life, including in supporting the transition from institutional to community-based living; asks the Commission to monitor closely the use of EU funds in line with the CRPD;

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Amendment 174 Konstantinos Arvanitis

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6c. Stresses the need for the European Commission's Digital Transition Strategy to ensure the involvement of people with disabilities in the IT development, deployment and use; stresses that AI- based technologies in the workplace should be accessible to everyone, based on the design for all principle;

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Amendment 175 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

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6c. Calls on the Member States to exchange information and good practices,

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Amendment 176 Jordi Cañas, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Samira Rafaela

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6c. Calls on the Council to unblock the proposed horizontal anti- discrimination directive without any further delay, thereby extending EU protection of people with disabilities beyond the sphere of employment;

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Amendment 177 Konstantinos Arvanitis

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6d. Underlines the need to earmark adequate funding for resources enabling people with disabilities to make use of the best available technology and equipment in their everyday lives, at the workplace and for social intercourse; highlights the potential of digital solutions such as teleworking and AI applications to provide a labour market foothold for people with disabilities; calls on the Member States to make the necessary

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Amendment 178 Milan Brglez, Manuel Pizarro, Marc Angel, Gabriele Bischoff, Estrella Durá Ferrandis, Alicia Homs Ginel, Lina Gálvez Muñoz, Aurore Lalucq, Marianne Vind

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6d. Urges Member States to develop employment prospects for persons with disabilities by improving their implementation of Council Directive 2000/78/EC on non-discrimination in employment, particularly Article 5 on reasonable accommodation, as well as by enabling the compatibility of disability allowance payments alongside income through a salary, and by investing EU funds and Recovery and Resilience Facility funding in training and job creation for persons with disabilities;

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Amendment 179 Katrin Langensiepen

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6d. Calls on the Council to unblock

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Amendment 180 Konstantinos Arvanitis

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6e. Stresses that access to the necessary digital skills and knowledge of AI can provide a labour market foothold for vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities;

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Amendment 181 Konstantinos Arvanitis

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6f. Highlights the importance of social enterprises and cooperatives in the social and economic inclusion and empowerment of people with disabilities, especially women; calls on the Commission and Member States to devote particular attention to the social economy in formulating programmes and policies for people with disabilities;

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