Abstract
In the modern European Union, disability policy (which was paid extremely little attention in the framework of traditional social policy in the late twentieth century) became one of the priorities of legal regulation. Today, this area of social policy includes not only social protection and integration in the labor market, but also takes care of the problem of ensuring equal rights and non-discrimination. In the context of this evolution, the article examines these questions: what is the legal nature of the European Union? What impact does the emergence of a supranational level of legal regulation have on disability policy? How does the international law and European legal regulation in the field of disability relate? How has the terminology changed in the regulations of the international, regional and national levels? How has EU disability policy evolved and what factors influenced on it? The article presents the results of a systematic analysis of EU regulations on disability policy, covering the period from 1951 to 2020.
Highlights
Most of them are devoted to the evolution of the legal status of persons with disabilities, their legal capacity, analysis of the problems of their individual rights ensuring, content analysis of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and experience in determining the legal status of persons with disabilities in individual countries [3]
The purpose of the scientific article is a scientific-theoretical study of the principles of legal regulation of the rights and freedoms of persons with disabilities provision in the European Union, revealing its ratio with international and national legal approaches of member states to this problem
The terms that define persons with disabilities in the national legislation of European countries change with the change of society’s attitude to such category of persons, as well as the terminology used in relation to persons with disabilities in international legal acts
Summary
Language largely shapes our awareness, as well as the way we perceive other people. The choice of terms used to describe a particular group of people and the way they are described could have a direct impact on how they feel in a particular state or integration association. In the modern European Union, disability policy (which was paid extremely little attention in the framework of traditional social policy in the late twentieth century) became one of the priorities of legal regulation. Today, this area of social policy includes social protection and integration in the labor market, and takes care of the problem of ensuring equal rights and non-discrimination. The policy of Europeanization of legal regulation in the field of disability proves the important role of the supranational level of government in ensuring the rights of this category of persons. Progress in disability regulation requires maximum synergies and complementarities between supranational and national levels of government
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