Strona główna EUD Czym jest UE? Instytucje Unii Europejskiej European Commission European Disability Strategy
European Disability Strategy
Reply to the public consultation on the review of the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020
Introduction
In 2010, the European Commission released its European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 (the Strategy). The aim of the Strategy is to empower people with disabilities so they can enjoy their full rights and benefit fully from participating in society and in the European economy such as through the single market. Unfortunately, for deaf people in the EU there are still many obstacles to reach this objective and deaf people are facing barriers and discrimination on a daily basis. EUD is therefore pleased to see that the European Commission is following up on its promise to review the Strategy made during the EU review of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in August 2015. Seen as that at since the release of the Strategy, the EU has ratified the CRPD and had its first review resulting in the first recommendations in the form of Concluding Observations, we encourage the Commission to review the Strategy taking into account the recommendations made by the CRPD Committee in September 2015.
EUD survey to its members
[1] The countries that have replied to the survey are: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Three of these countries are not EU Member States, but their replies have been included in this document to also demonstrate various good and/or bad examples of how to address the aims listed in the Strategy. Also, Belgium is counted as one country in this document even if two deaf associations, both of which have replied to the EUD survey, represent it. In the very few cases where the two replies from Belgium differ, this is split into half in the statistics i.e. 0,5 of a country.