More details are available from ANED’s Indicators of Disability Equality in Europe. The following key points are summarised from data sources at European or national level, with particular relevance to the European Disability Strategy 2010-2020 and Europe 2020 targets.

Enquiries about official data on disability issues can be directed to:

• Statistisches Bundesamt Deutschland[Federal StatisticalOffice] https://www.destatis.de/EN/Homepage.html.
• Deutsches Institut für Menschenrechte Monitoring-Stelle[German Institute for Human Rights, CRPD National Monitoring Body] The German Institute for Human Rights has been mandated to assume the function of an independent national body to monitor the implementation of the treaty norms in Germany. The national monitoring body shall also promote and protect the rights enshrined in the Convention (see article 33 (2) of the Convention).The CRPD National Monitoring Body is not mandated to handle complaints or provide legal advice, http://www.institut-fuer-menschenrechte.de/de/monitoring-stelle/zentrale-dokumente-und-links.html.

The national assembly representing disabled people’s organisations is:

• Deutscher Behindertenrat [German Disability Council]: The German Disability Council is an association of more than 40 disabled people's organisations whose overall membership represents more than 2.5 million disabled people in Germany (although it does not possess a general mandate of representation). Member associations maintain their autonomy and represent their interests. Every member organisation has one vote in the general council. The continuity of the political and organisational work of the German Disability Council is ensured by the working committee. It consists of 12 people; at least six of them must be ‘people affected by disability or a chronic disease’, http://www.deutscher-behindertenrat.de/.