On Wednesday 8 April, a few weeks after the opening of interinstitutional negotiations on 17 March, seven European organisations published a call concerning the future regulation on the protection of vulnerable adults (see EUROPE 13191/15).
The text, supported by organisations working to defend the rights of people with disabilities and older people - the European Disability Forum, the European Network on Independent Living, Inclusion Europe, Mental Health Europe, the European Council of Autistic People, the Validity Foundation and AGE Platform Europe - sounds the alarm about the risks to individual freedoms.
In particular, the automatic recognition of judicial decisions depriving people of their legal capacity or forcing them to be placed in an institution - even in another Member State - is mentioned.
While they welcome the positions adopted by the European Parliament in June 2025 (see EUROPE 13666/20) and by the EU Council earlier this year (see EUROPE 13823/1) to bring the text more into line with the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, they call on the negotiators to propose better guarantees concerning autonomy, consent and the protection of personal data.
See the call: https://aeur.eu/f/lgp (Original version in French by Nithya Paquiry)