19
décembre
2023

EU funds: Ensuring compliance with fundamental rights

All EU funds must be spent in a way that respect fundamental rights. The EU spends billions of euros on creating jobs, economic growth, sustainable development and improving people’s lives. To prevent funds from being spent in ways that directly violate people’s fundamental rights, the EU strengthened the conditions how funds can be spent in 2021. This report looks at how the newly introduced conditions related to the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities can be upheld in practice. It analyses the potential role of national human rights institutions, ombudsperson institutions and equality bodies. These safeguards can advance compliance with fundamental rights.

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Luxembourg: Publications Office of the European Union, 2023

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  • ISBN: 978-92-9489-264-5
  • doi: 10.2811/712470
  • TK-04-23-582-EN-Q

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  • ISBN: 978-92-9489-205-8
  • doi: 10.2811/918735
  • TK-04-23-582-EN-N

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