- 36 - 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

Select target paragraph3

Connect to a paragraph
Connect to an entity
Disable highlights
Add to table of contents