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EU secondary legislation and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
The European Union (EU) has adopted a number of acts that are relevant for the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) provisions concerning independent living, community inclusion and life in a family environment. Particularly important secondary legislation relates to the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESIFs). Those documents directly refer to the CRPD, children with disabilities, rights to social inclusion and family-based care. The ESIFs are perceived as having “huge (but not realized) potential” to promote independent living and community and family living for children and adults with disabilities.[1] The EU has funded childcare systems and systems of care and support for persons with disabilities in a number of Member States. For that reason, the regulation on the use of ESIFs is especially significant for the implementation of the CRPD in the Member States. The present chapter thus firstly explores the Regulation on Common Provisions on the European Structural
[1] Camilla Parker and Ines Bulic-Cojocariu, “European Structural and Investment Funds and People with Disabilities in the European Union. Study for the PETI Committee” (Directorate-General for Internal Policies, 2016), p. 30.
[2] “Regulation (EU) 2021/1060 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2021”, ed. The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union (OJEU, 2021).