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A – Submissions of the parties
1. The complainant organisation
102. Médecins du Monde infers, from the situation described under Article 31, an
absence of any political commitment to integrate the Roma from central and eastern
Europe into the traditional housing system, using the common legal means of accessing
accommodation. It concludes that their access to housing under Article 30§1 is therefore
ineffective.
2. The Government
103. The Government maintains that significant steps are being taken by the
authorities in order to ensure that the Roma of Romanian and Bulgarian origin have
effective access to their rights under the Charter.
B – Assessment of the Committee
104. The Committee underlines that Médecins du Monde refers to Article 30 only with
regard to the effective access to housing.
105. The Committee recalls having considered that living in a situation of social
exclusion undermines human dignity. With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of
the right to protection against social exclusion, Article 30 requires states parties to adopt
an overall and coordinated approach, which should consist of an analytical framework, a
set of priorities and measures to prevent and remove obstacles to access to social
fundamental rights. Also control mechanisms involving all relevant actors, including civil
society and persons affected by exclusion should be put in place. This approach must
link and integrate policies in a consistent way. Adequate resources are one of the main
elements of the overall strategy to fight social exclusion, and should be allocated to
attain the objectives of the strategy. Finally, the measures should be adequate in their
quality and quantity to the nature and extent of social exclusion in the country concerned
(European Roma Rights Centre (ERRC) v. France, Complaint No. 51/2008, decision on
the merits of 19 October 2009, §§ 93-94).
106. The Committee takes note of the Strategy of the French Government for the
inclusion of Roma (received by the European Commission on 8 February 2012) in the
context of the EU Framework for National Roma Integration Strategies up to 2020
(document COM(2011)173 final). The Committee nevertheless considers that it clearly
results from its conclusions under Article 31 that the housing policy in favour of the
migrant Roma lawfully residing or regularly working in France is insufficient. It
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