20. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled persons to live in a comm ...[+++]unity, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

19. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled persons to live in a comm ...[+++]unity, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

20. Welcomes the fact that Croatia was among the first countries to agree to be bound by the International Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities; encourages the Croatian authorities to implement the existing measures and to adopt additional, concrete and transparent plans to reform institutionalisation and legal capacity as well as to address the issue of the growing number of mentally disabled persons living in overcrowded institutions rather than communities in order to fully ensure the legal and human rights of people with disabilities; since the Convention explicitly recognises the basic right of mentally disabled persons to live in a comm ...[+++]unity, recommends the Croatian authorities to make reforms consistent with this provision by providing alternative care options; encourages Croatia further to enforce the relevant legal provisions on access to public buildings for persons with disabilities;

25. Maintains that having sufficient resources and benefits to live a decent life is a fundamental human right to be enjoyed within the wider context of comprehensive, coherent measures to combat social exclusion and of an active strategy to promote social inclusion; calls on the Member States to adopt national policies to foster the economic and social integration of the persons concerned;

Efforts should be deployed to strengthen procedural guarantees and the respect of the rule of law in criminal proceedings, no matter where citizens decide to travel, study, work or live in the European Union.

This mission, which comes under the mandate the informal Council of Ghent entrusted to the Belgian Presidency, will offer an opportunity to remind the parties, once again, of the European Union's clear position on the goals the final negotiations must seek to achieve. These are, for the Palestinians, the constitution of a viable and democratic State and an end to the occupation of their territory; for the Israelis, the right to live in peace and security within internationally recognised borders.