The European Network on Independent Living – ENIL and the Validity Foundation welcome the adoption of the concluding observations on the combined second and third periodic reports of the European Union by the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD Committee). In the concluding observations, adopted on 18 March, the CRPD Committee highlighted its concerns and formulated recommendations in relation to the implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) in the European Union.
The CRPD is the first international human rights convention to which the European Union (EU) has become a party. Since the CRPD entered into force for the EU in January 2011, the EU was reviewed for the second time in March 2025.
At the beginning of 2025, the European Network on Independent Living – ENIL and the Validity Foundation submitted written submissions to the CRPD Committee (ENIL’s submission is available here and Validity’s submission can be found here) in response to the EU’s combined Second and Third reports. Previously, in 2022, our organisations contributed to the adoption of a List of Issues Prior to Reporting (ENIL’s shadow report is here and Validity’s contribution is here).
This briefing focuses on the articles which were covered in our shadow reports, and where our organisations asked the Committee to provide recommendations. However, all the recommendations are important to improve implementation of the CRDP at EU level.
Read here our full reaction to the Concluding observations of the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities on the European Union.
