Activities of Marina ALBIOL GUZMÁN related to 2015/2258(INI)
Plenary speeches (2)
Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (debate) ES
Implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (A8-0203/2016 - Helga Stevens) ES
Shadow opinions (1)
OPINION on the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities with special regard to the Concluding Observations of the UN CRPD Committee
Amendments (8)
Amendment 5 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 a (new)
Paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. As the parliamentary committee that ensures a greater presence and participation of citizens and their demands in parliamentary life, stresses the importance of Article 29 of the CRPD on the participation without discrimination of persons with disabilities in political and public life;
Amendment 6 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 b (new)
Paragraph 1 b (new)
1b. Calls on those Member States that have ratified the CRPD to urgently comply with the obligation to uphold the right of persons with disabilities to vote, reforming, if necessary, their electoral laws; expresses particular concern about the situation in Spain where the authorities' failure to act has denied the right to vote to more than 80 000 persons with disabilities;
Amendment 9 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1 c (new)
Paragraph 1 c (new)
1c. Stresses the need for the European Institutions and the Member States, in accordance with Article 27, to promote active employment policies for persons with disabilities, creating specific instruments to foster and facilitate their access to the labour market and to abolish any existing barriers; in this regard, highlights the importance of establishing legal job quotas for persons with disabilities and the role of the Special Protected Employment Centres;
Amendment 13 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Points out that the Committee on Petitions provides full active protection for European citizens (natural or legal persons) pursuant to Article 227 TFEU, enabling them to lodge a complaint against an infringement of their rights on the part of European, national and local authorities, in connection withcluding those derived from the application of European policies whose purpose is to implement the CRPD, in the context of the Declaration in relation to the delimitation of competences annexed to the Final Act adopting the Treaty;
Amendment 14 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Highlights the fact that the Committee on Petitions is recognised as the EU’s onlyone of the institutional instruments of the EU (alongside the Ombudsman, appointed to protect citizens in the event of maladministration) able to play the protection role within the independent monitoring framework, in keeping with the principles relating to the operation of national institutions set up to protect and promote human rights (‘Paris Principles’), adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its 1993 resolution 48/134;
Amendment 21 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. Welcomes the initiative of the Committee on Petitions to organise an annual eventevent this year focusing on petitions in the field of disabilities, in cooperation with multiple stakeholders, including other relevant committees of the European Parliament, members of the EU Framework for the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD), members of civil society and academics;
Amendment 28 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Calls on the Member States to urgently implement the provisions of the UNCRPD, revise their legislation and ensure proper enforcement; calls for national information tools to be developed and existing ones enhanced in order to best assist people with disabilities and their families; calls on those Member States that have not ratified the UNCRPD to do so as soon as possible;
Amendment 47 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. Calls on the Commission to promote and enhance the use of Structural Funds by Member States, with a view to developing high-quality public social services for people with disabilities and ensuring the transition from institutional care to public community-based care;