Changes from plenary report to adopted text

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Added17. Believes that the strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities post-2024 should lay down that all EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies must ensure the full and consistent implementation of all the Ombudsman’s recommendations in order to underline the Ombudsman’s paramount role in protecting the rights of persons with disabilities;

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Added33. Stresses, based on petitions submitted to Parliament on disability-related issues, the need to improve and enforce accessibility standards in the built environment; emphasises the need for compliance with standard EN 17210:2021 on ‘Accessibility and usability of the built environment – Functional requirements’, developed by CEN-CLC/JTC 11, which establishes common minimum functional requirements based on design for all / universal design principles; regrets the prolonged standardisation process, noting that this key standard for accessible built infrastructure was only adopted in 2021;

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Changed87.88. Highlights that children with disabilities are among the target groups of the European Child Guarantee; calls on the Member States to step up their efforts to implement this instrument; stresses that the objectives of the Child Guarantee cannot be achieved without an ambitious dedicated budget at both EU and national level and reiterates in this context its call for a dedicatedthe budgetallocation of at leasta EURsubstantial 20dedicated billionbudget for the European Child Guarantee; calls further on the Commission to provide an ambitious budget for the Child Guarantee in the next multiannual financial framework in order to respond to the growing challenge of child poverty and social exclusion, especially for children with disabilities;

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Added118. Stresses that petitions received by Parliament are a valuable tool for identifying critical, possible and justifiable shortcomings in the implementation of the UNCRPD or legislation relating to the rights of persons with disabilities; calls, therefore, on the Commission and the Member States to systematically take into account the findings and concerns raised through petitions when monitoring and reviewing disability-related legislation and funding programmes; calls for greater involvement of persons with disabilities in policymaking under the principle of ‘nothing about us without us’; urges the establishment of structured interinstitutional dialogue to monitor and evaluate the implementation of the EU’s strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities;

Added119. Calls on the Commission, in cooperation with Parliament’s Committee on Petitions, to publish an annual report summarising trends, issues and follow-up actions related to disability-focused petitions submitted to Parliament, such that this report should feed into the mid-term and final evaluations of the EU strategy for the rights of persons with disabilities;