2 Amendments of Emer COSTELLO related to 2013/2065(INI)
Amendment 3 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recalls that, as the population ages, the proportion of elderly people with a disability is increasing, and that those concerned are more likely to be women owing to their longer life expectancy; stresses that women with disabilities as a group face greater exclusion and have less opportunities in the labour market than men with disabilities; urges the Commission and the Member States to pay more attention to the particular situation of women with disabilities, who face double discrimination;
Amendment 17 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Notes that the terminology used to describe physical impairments and disabilities is different and that the focus should be on disabilities instead of impairments in medical terms, in accordance with the approach chosen in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and followed by the European Court of Justice1 ; stresses that employers should not examine the disfocus on the skills and abilities of employees or applicants which are irrelevant to a given job, but only their skills and ith disabilities;