and they cannot be subject to inhuman or degrading treatment. Relevant national legislation complies with international provisions, prohibiting the subjection of persons with disabilities to ill treatment, on equitable terms with others (UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, ratified on November 11, 2010). The structures supporting the performance of mental health services, based on Law no. 487/2002 on mental health and the protection of persons with psychological disorders, republished, as psychiatric hospitals, hospitals for psychiatry and safety measures, psychiatric departments of general hospitals, neuropsychiatric recovery and rehabilitation centres. A psychiatric hospital is a medical unit with beds, of public utility, with legal status, that provides medical services (curative, of psychiatric recovery), operating in compliance with the provisions of Law no. 95/2006 on health reform, republished. A neuropsychiatric recovery and rehabilitation centre is a residential centre for disabled adults that supplies, for a definite or indefinite period, depending on the identified individual needs and the personal situation of each beneficiary, social services such as: hosting, recovery and rehabilitation services (kinetic therapy, physical therapy, medical gymnastics, occupational therapy, etc.), medical and social assistance, psychological assistance, cultural activities, recreation and socialisation, etc. By ratifying the UN Convention on the rights of persons with disabilities, the Romanian state recognized the equal right of all persons with disabilities of living in the community, with equal opportunities to others. Furthermore, it agreed to take efficient and suitable measures to make sure that persons with disabilities enjoyed this right and their full integration with the community and participation to its life. However, psychiatry in Romania is still undergoing reform in order to reach the standards requested by the European Union, regarding issues such as: the social rehabilitation and inclusion of persons with psychological disabilities, their occupational rehabilitation, case management and integrated development of social 92