Запрещението в практиката на Европейските конституционни съдилища
Guardianship in the practice of European Constitutional Courts

Summary/Abstract: The UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities is not the first international document that deals with the legal status of people with disabilities. What is revolutionary is that the Convention challenges stereotypes about people with intellectual disabilities or mental health problems established in the public mind by presenting them in a qualitatively new light - as active holders of rights. The states - parties to the Convention are expected to develop laws and policies to replace the mechanism of substituted decisionmaking with supported decision-making. Driven by the desire to speed up the implementation of the commitments of the Republic of Bulgaria following from the ratification of the CRPD, in 2014 the National Ombudsman appealed to the Constitutional Court for revocation of the relevant texts of the Persons and Family Act. The aim of this article is to analyse the decision issued by the Bulgarian Constitutional Court in comparison with the practice of other constitutional jurisdictions of Central and Eastern Europe in identical disputes about the constitutionality of the legal guardianship regime.

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