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Title: The EU Strategy on Disability


1
The EU Strategy on Disability
Wallis Goelen
Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs
and Equal OpportunitiesHead of Unit Integration
of People with Disabilities Unit (G3) June
2006
2
Introduction
  • Equal opportunities objective of the EU's
    long-term strategy on disability. Underpins the
    set of common EU social and economic values.
  • European Year of People with Disabilities in
    2003 major initiative of the European
    Commission. People with disabilities have similar
    concerns throughout the Union, face same
    obstacles, experience same discriminations, share
    same hopes and fears.
  • Disability policies are essentially the
    responsibility of individual MS but European
    community policies and actions impact in many
    ways on situation of people with disabilities.
  • December 2003 the European Commission commits
    itself to regularly issue a public report on the
    situation of disabled people in the EU and to
    develop an European Disability Action Plan to
    sustain the long-term effects of the EYPD.
  • Council called on MS to take the EU Action Plan
    into account when developing their national
    disability policies

3
The four pillars of the EU disability strategy
  • EU ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LEGISLATION AND MEASURES
    Providing access to individual rights (Directive
    2000/78/EC, Anti-Discrimination Programme)
  • ELIMINATION OF BARRIERS Elimination of
    obstacles preventing disabled people from
    exercising their abilities
  • MAINSTREAMING OF DISABILITY ISSUES
    Mainstreaming in order to facilitate active
    inclusion of disabled people
  • MOBILISING STAKEHOLDERS THROUGH DIALOGUE
    Nothing about people with disabilities without
    people with disabilities. Dialogue through
    regular meetings with MS, pwd and civil society
    representatives and stakeholders

4
Long lasting effects of the European Year of
People with Disabilities
  • Commission Communication of October 2003
    "Equal opportunities for people with
    disabilities A European Action Plan"
  • A strategic framework principles and concepts
    for the for reinforcement of the disability
    dimension in all relevant EU policies, while
    supporting and stimulating policies at national
    level
  • A reference point the EU biennial report on the
    situation of people with disabilities in the
    enlarged Union for all stakeholders involved or
    concerned. To inform policy makers.
  • The EU Disability Action Plan to reinforce
    mainstreaming

5
Mainstreaming a crucial tool in the EU
disability strategy
  • Requires
  • Political understanding of its significance
    moving to a full participation model
  • Taking into account the needs of people with
    disabilities at all stages of policy development
  • Involvement of all relevant actors, including
    NGOs and representative organisations of people
    with disabilities i.e. active participation of
    all stakeholders at every stage of policy making,
    starting at planning and design stage
  • Methodological tools, suitable co-ordination,
    adequate monitoring and impact assessment across
    the board

6
The European Disability Action Plan
  • ROLLING and MULTI-ANNUAL
  • TIME HORIZON 2010
  • THREE CENTRAL OBJECTIVES
  • 1. Achieving full implementation of the
    Employment Equality Directive
  • 2. Delivering mainstreaming
  • 3. Improving accessibility for all

7
Principles and concepts of the second phase of
the EU disability action plan 2006-2007
  • Apart from the priorities outlined, the AP is
    guided by following principles and concepts
  • Independent living
  • Active Inclusion
  • Citizenship concept

8
The 2005 Communication
MAIN BODY First Biennial Report Provides
overview of the main developments, trends and
analysis recent statistics, mainly within the
area of active inclusion and employment of
disabled people and integration of disabled
people into society in general. EU Disability
Action Plan for 2006-2007Outlines policy
priorities and identifies priority areas for the
forthcoming years. ANNEXESAnnex 1Overview of
the ongoing actions within the framework of DAP
2004-2005Annex 2 Overview of the actions
forecasted within the framework of DAP
2006-2007Annex 3 Examples of mainstreaming of
disability issues in practice in MS
9
The 2005 Communication in detail
  • Part 1. Biennial Report main findings (1)
  • Lack of common EU definition of disability
    constitutes an obstacle for efficient data
    collection and analysis throughout Europe.
  • - 44.6 million one in six persons aged between
    16 and 64 report that they have a long standing
    health problem or disability. They represent at
    least 16 of the overall EU working age
    population
  • There is a strong correlation between disability
    and increasing aging of the European population.
  • - Nearly 30 of people in the age group 55-64
    report a disability and 63 of people with
    disabilities are older than 45.
  • - Surveys show that disability schemes affect
    early retirement. This development calls for
    further actions to support active aging and
    active labour force participation.

10
The 2005 Communication in detail
  • Part 1. Biennial Report main findings (2)
  • Figures indicate gap between the employment rate
    of disabled and non-disabled people.
  • 40 of disabled persons are employed compared to
    64.2 of non disabled persons. The ratio for
    those with a relatively light level of disability
    that does not limit daily life is 50.
  • The inactivity rate of disabled persons is twice
    that of non-disabled. 50 of people whose
    relatively light level of disability does not
    hamper their daily activities are inactive as
    compared to 26.9 for non disabled persons.
  • Only 15.9 of working disabled persons are
    provided with some assistance to work. At the
    same time, 43.7 of respondents believe they
    could work if they were given adequate
    assistance.
  • Correlation between disability and level of
    education.
  • Modern technologies (ICT) constitute one of the
    main tools for overcoming environmental barriers

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The 2005 Communication in detail
  • Part 2. Priorities of the EU Disability Action
    Plan 2006-2007 Encouraging activity
    Objective is to attract more people into active
    employment in the open labour market (where
    possible). ESF is one of the most important tools
    in this respect.
  • Promoting access to quality support and care
    services Commission will, inter alia, present a
    proposal to streamline different Open Methods of
    Coordination in social protection and social
    inclusion and will develop policy cooperation on
    health and long-term care. Commission will also
    issue Communication on Social Services.
  • Fostering accessibility of goods and services
    Work on transport services and increased ICT
    accessibility, including access to the new
    generation of assistive technologies.
  • Increasing the EU's analytical capacity Quality
    and quantity of disability-related statistical
    data will be increased through cooperation with
    Eurostat and through 7th Framework Programme on
    Research.
  • 2.

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The 2005 Communication in detail
  • Annexes
  • DAP 2004-2005 (examples of actions) - 06.2005
    Commission Discussion Paper Disability
    mainstreaming in the ESS- 12.2005 MS submit
    information on implementation of the
    Anti-Discrimination Directive. Commission will
    analyse the implementation and submit a report.-
    09.2005 Publication of the eAccessiblity
    Communication
  • DAP 2006-2007 (examples of actions) - 01.2006
    Seven projects selected and launched within the
    framework of the Pilot Projects on Actions to
    Mainstream Disability (EP)- 06.2006 ESF
    Conference will be organised, focusing on equal
    opportunities
  • Mainstreaming of disability issues in practice
    (Annex 3)Contains examples of good practices in
    individual Member States in various areas
    employment, life long learning, public built
    environment, etc. Particular focus is devoted to
    the role of the ESF and other Community
    programmes in promotion of equal opportunities

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Implementation of EU Action Plan
  • Through institutional framework
  • Disability High Level Group meetings, comprising
    MS and third sector representatives.
  • Disability Inter-Service Group meetings,
    comprising civil servants from different
    directorates general.
  • Dialogue with the EP, monitoring of
    Parliamentary Inter-Service group activities
  • Dialogue with CoR and EESC
  • Through other means
  • Dialogue with Social Partners and other relevant
    stakeholders
  • Establishment of the Action Plan scoreboard
    allowing continual monitoring of the
    implementation process
  • Through eventual meetings of MS disability
    ministers
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