Monitoring Council under the Persons with Disabilities Act

On 1 January 2019, according to Art. 11, para. 1 of the Persons with Disabilities Act (PDA), a Monitoring Council was established to carry out the functions of promoting, protecting and monitoring the implementation of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, in compliance with Art. 33, para. 2 and 3 of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD).

The Monitoring Committee is composed of 9 members – two representatives appointed by the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria, two representatives appointed by the Chairperson of the Commission for Protection against Discrimination, four representatives of the organizations of the persons with disabilities appointed by and one representative of the academic community designated by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.

The activity of the Monitoring Council is administered through the administration of the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria and the Commission for Protection against Discrimination on a rotation basis for a period of two years. 

In the period 2019 - 2021, the Ombudsman of the Republic of Bulgaria was the first chairperson of the Monitoring Council of the National Policy for Persons with Disabilities.

Below you will find:

• the main documents and reports of the Monitoring Council;
• excerpts of the Ombudman's Annual Reports monitoing the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities;
• links to international guidance tools for the protection of the rights of persons with disabilities:
  • Implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Human Rights Indicators, FRA, March 2023 (BG and EN);