Equal recognition of legal personality is a long-standing human rights principle. Nevertheless, the legal framework of many European Union (EU) Member States allows for the restriction or removal of the legal capacity of people with intellectual disabilities and mental health problems under certain conditions. These legal frameworks are changing, as the entry into force of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) brings about rapid and significant changes in the states that have ratified the convention, including 24 EU Member States and Croatia, as well as in the EU itself. Based on a rights-based approach to disability that places individuals at the centre of all decisions that affect them, the issue of legal capacity is reframed in terms of the support that persons with disabilities may need to make decisions. This report by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) analyses current legal standards on legal capacity in the EU in the light of the experience of respondents who have been deprived or limited in their legal capacity. The FRA report highlights the gap between the promise of the CRPD and the reality that people with disabilities face on a daily basis in the EU, and hopes to help close it.