• Vocational Rehabilitation and Employment (Disabled Persons) Convention, 1983 (No. 159) adopted by the International Labour Office, Geneve 1983
• Recommendation no. R (92) 6 of the committee of ministers to member states on a coherent policy for people with disabilities (Adopted by the Committee of Ministers on 9 April 1992 at the 474th meeting of the Ministers’ Deputies)
• Standard Rules on the Equalization of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities, G.A. res. 48/96, 48 U.N. GAOR Supp. (No. 49) at 202, U.N. Doc. A/48/49 (1993)
• European Council Directive 2000/78/EC of 27 November 2000 establishing a general framework for equal treatment in employment and occupation (2000/78/WE);
• Managing disability In the workplace. An ILO code of practice International Labour Office, Geneve 2002
• UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities adopted on 13 December 2006 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York (signed by the EU on March 30th 2007) br>