This Report is the fourth one since the Ombudsman was assigned the specific responsibility for the external, independent monitoring of the implementation of the UN Convention on the rights of Persons with Disabilities. Like the previous reports, it examines deficiencies, insufficiencies and distortions in the existing legislation, the secondary regulations, the administrative function and practice.

It presents the policy fields where there has been progress in the attuning of the national framework to the Convention’s provisions, it notes any delays and/or futile regulations, it addresses and often reintroduces recommendations for the substantial transposition of the Convention’s provisions into statutory regula tions, it presents the Authority’s recommendations which have been accepted and formed specific legislative interventions, it evaluates the degree of effective ness of the policies’ implementation and it displays the administration’s level of readiness and responsiveness.