Peter Agius

30 a. Stresses the need for the systematic inclusion of persons with disabilities in policy design, implementation and evaluation; calls on the Commission and Member States to formally involve...

25 a. Calls for complimentary european actions with a view to enhance social care services, community-based health services and introducing programs of home-based care and personal assistance,...

Acknowledges the essential role played by family members in providing long-term, informal care to persons with disabilities, often in the absence of adequate public support; calls on the...

D a. whereas a renewed effort is necessary to pass from rights on paper to rights in practice with an emphasis on enforcement of existing legislation concerning the rights of persons with...

21 a. Highlights the potential of enhancing accessibility and inclusion through design, including through the new European Bauhaus initiative; emphasises the need for the adaptation of both...

E a. whereas persons with unseen disabilities, including neurodevelopmental and psychological disorders, are often excluded from eligibility criteria and support mechanisms due to lack of...

16. Recognises that persons with disabilities encounter obstacles in accessing healthcare, education and employment, and calls for the Union of Skills to enable greater investment in...

13 a. Highlights the need to strenghten the efforts in Member States through sharing of best practices and other complimentary actions to enhance accessibility to work and education also by...

17 a. Urges the Commission and Member States to consider recommendations for streamlined administrative procedures to remove excessive red tape that hinders persons with disabilities from...

4. Underlines that, while employment leads to multiple positive outcomes for persons with disabilities, such as higher incomes, improved quality of life, independence and an increase in...

16 b. Encourages the continuous promotion and formalisation of teleworking arrangements adapted to the particular working context, including hybrid models, to improve labour market...

16 a. Calls on Member States to guarantee inclusive access to education at all levels for persons with disabilities, including through the provision of specialised support staff, tailored...

3. Underlines that across Europe, persons with disabilities still face considerable barriers when it comes to healthcare services, higher education and skills development, having adequate standards...

1. Acknowledges that the strategy sets EU objectives and priorities for action in several policy areas including employment, education, non-discrimination, public health and social...

15. Affirms that the best guarantee for advancement of rights of persons with disabilities is the direct participation as candidates and elected representatives at all levels of governance;...

5 a. Underlines the imperative need to promote widespread training and exchange of best-practices for educators in inclusive pedagogy to counter the marginalisation of students with physical...

15 b. Underlines the need for the EU’s disability strategy to put intellectual disabilities as a primary and equally important field of action with key actions specifically designed to address...

21 b. Calls for more sustained efforts for inclusion through design, including in the New European Bauhaus and other European and national initiatives which can promote sustainability along...

17 a. Calls for a wider use of best- practices sharing between Member States where the models considered successful for the uptake of skills and employment for persons with disabilities in one...

16 a. Underlines that inclusion of persons with disabilities needs to be addressed as early as possible in the schooling system in all Member States with effective rights to Inclusive and...

14 a. Emphasises that true inclusion requires a constant emphasis on accessibility in all its forms, from reduction of physical barriers to bigger fonts on labelling and louder volumes in...

B a. whereas every person in the European Union should enjoy the fundamental freedoms of the EU including the freedom to live with dignity and without prejudice, with full access to Union...

30. Asks the Commission to include Parliament at a political level in the Disability Platform and to establish an interinstitutional structured dialogue to follow up on, monitor and evaluate the...

F a. whereas the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) explicitly includes psychosocial disabilities; whereas however, much more needs to be done to secure the...

12 a. Calls on the Commission to consider the AI revolution as an opportunity for advancing accessibility and inclusion for persons with disabilities; invites the Commission to consider...

21 a. Calls for the recognition of the key role of family and informal carers to the welfare of persons with disability; calls for the consideration within national systems and european...

30 a. Asks for the inclusion of persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in Member States in all areas and in all policies, sharing best practice and providing...

15 a. Encourages the participation of persons with disability in organisations of civil society; calls upon the Commission to consider the measures necessary to promote the participation of...

4 b. Considers that the DPP should replace existing declarations of conformity in order to streamline conformity requirements; welcomes in this context the new Toy Safety Regulation which...

21. Stresses that the revision of the NLF should contribute to the enhancement of the inclusiveness, transparency and effectiveness of the standardisation...