A/HRC/43/50/Add.3 Ad. Paragraph 69 85. Every textbook admitted to a school use by the minister competent for education and upbringing, received positive substantive and didactic opinions as well as a positive language opinion of appraisers who check and evaluate the compliance of the textbook with the core curriculum and correctness in terms of content, didactic, education and language, in particular: • taking into account the current state of scientific knowledge, including methodology, • adaptation to a given level of education, especially in terms of difficulty, form of communication, proper selection of concepts, names, terms and methods of explaining them, • compliance of the content contained in the handbook with legal provisions, including ratified international agreements. 86. The allegation of homophobic language in the textbooks is unauthorized and cannot be substantiated. Making such an accusation would require at least indicating the specific titles of textbooks to be able to refer to specific cases. 87. The list of textbooks approved for school use is publicly available on the Ministry of National Education website at https://podreczniki.men.gov.pl/. The list is constantly updated. Ad Part III E. The right of persons with disabilities - Ad. Paragraph 63 88. The reply on persons’ with disabilities steadily improved access to culture has not been noted. The Ministry of Culture and National Heritage constantly supports the facilitation of access to culture by persons with disabilities with funds that can be obtained by eligible institutions under programs such as “Museums without barriers” or “Accessible culture.” 89. Those are systemic actions aiming to achieve specific long-term goals of removing barriers in access to culture in its spatial, economic, social and attitudinal, and competential dimensions with special focus on the needs of people deprived of direct access to the national resources of cultural assets. 90. The Office of the Government Plenipotentiary for Persons with Disabilities would like to emphasize that actions aimed at introducing changes regarding the system of support for persons with disabilities and their families were taken before the start of the protest that took place in the Polish Parliament. 91. Activities aimed at introducing changes to the support system for persons with disabilities took into account the solutions resulting from the Program for comprehensive support for families 'For Life' (with a comprehensive offer of support for families with persons with disabilities, including a child with a disability or threatened with disability) and the “Family 500+” Program, as well as work on the government program “Accessibility Plus”. 92. A special institution of the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage, the National Institute of Museums and Monuments Protection, as its statutory task, supports the institution in making the cultural offer available to people with disabilities. The project is called “Barrier-free museums” and includes training for museum staff, the existing cultural offer is adapted to the needs of people with disabilities, architectural solutions which take into account the needs of people with disabilities are implemented, and publications which help other institutions to adapt their exhibitions to the needs of people with disabilities are published. (https://nimoz.pl/baza-wiedzy/muzea-bez-barier). 93. With a view to meeting, the needs of people excluded, among others because of disability, the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage has been running a special programme “Accessible Culture” since 2015. It is a systemic solution, which serves to eliminate competence and financial barriers, especially for groups at risk of exclusion - due to disability. 18