NATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY FRAMEWORK CONCERNING DEFENDANTS AND PERSONS DEPRIVED OF LIBERTY WITH INTELLECTUAL AND/OR PSYCHOSOCIAL DISABILITIES IN LAW AND PRACTICE 36 Such a definition established in Lithuanian law is not in line with the concept established by the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)30 nor with the definition given by the Court of Justice of the European Union.31, 32 In its concluding observations in 2016, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities expressed its concern ‘that the definition and understanding of disability in State party laws and regulations focuses on the individual impairment, thereby neglecting the social and relational dimension of disability, including, in particular, the barriers faced by persons with disabilities’, and urged Lithuania to change that.33 It is important to note that at the end of 2022, the Lithuanian Parliament adopted amendments to the Law on Social Integration of Persons with Disabilities, implementing the disability reform. The reform will United Nations. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, 2006. Available at: https://bit.ly/3RQYYb6. 31 The Court defines disability as a limitation which results in particular from long-term physical, mental or psychological impairments which, in interaction with various barriers, may hinder the full and effective participation of the person concerned in professional life on an equal basis with other workers. The Court has also stressed that an illness cannot simply amount to a disability (Court of Justice of the European Union. Judgment of 11 April, 2013 in the cases Ring and Skouboe Werge C-335/11 and C-337/11). 32 Andriukaitis G., Guliakaitė M. (2021) Country report on nondiscrimination (Lithuania). Transposition and implementation at national level of Council Directives 2000/43 and 2000/78. Available in English at: https://bit.ly/46JoUtG. 33 UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (2016), Concluding observations on the initial report of Lithuania, CRPD/C/LTU/ CO/1, available in English at: https://bit.ly/46qyXE4. 30