FRA’s report on ‘EU funds: Ensuring compliance with fundamental rights’ suggests ways to ensure the new rules are being upheld and people’s rights respected. FRA calls on the EU and its Member States to: involve fundamental rights experts explicitly throughout all stages of funding and make better use of their expertise, data and findings; monitor and evaluate how national authorities spend EU money to ensure rights are respected; provide actors with the necessary resources, human, financial and technical, to ensure they can monitor EU funds effectively; raise awareness of complaints mechanisms and ensure that complaints can identify and effectively address rights violations. EU funding rules stipulate that those in charge of managing these funds must ensure compliance with the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and put into effect the obligations outlined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Authorities should also engage civil society and other actors committed to fundamental rights to ensure the proper respect of these obligations. Read more here.
Source: FRA