PGDG 1 AMP - EU Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

PLENARY SESSION Meeting No 597 Date 18-19/6/2025 SOC/830 The future of the EU Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities post- 2025 Rapporteur Ioannis VARDAKASTANIS Reference EESC-2025-00909-00-01-AS-TRA AMENDMENTS Presentation order Point AMP No Action Linked to point Authors 4.11 1 Amend LE BRETON Marie-Pierre PIETKIEWICZ Janusz YGLESIAS Isabel ZVOLSKÁ Marie AMENDMENT 1 SOC/830 The future of the EU Strategy on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities post-2025 Point 4.11 Amend as follows Section opinion Amendment Protect persons with disabilities against discrimination by artificial intelligence (AI): The EESC points to the particular threats that AI can pose to persons with disabilities, as recognised by the AI Act[13]. AI-based recruitment and employment assessment applications can be discriminatory if they do not factor in the particular issues and common educational and labour-related obstacles that persons with disabilities face. Given the suggestion that the Commission is mulling over the creation of a directive regulating the use of algorithms for managing, monitoring and recruiting workers[14], the EESC stresses the need to commit to this plan and ensure that this legislation very clearly removes the risks of discrimination towards candidates and employees with disabilities. This is supported by point 54 of the CRPD Committee’s concluding...