[Continued progress in the legal aspects of integrating handicapped patients--recommendations of the Federal Council on Rehabilitation to SGB IX].

In January 1991, the Government coalition parties agreed that the existing rehabilitation and severely disabled persons legislation should be rearranged in a distinct manner and integrated in the German Social Code as Book IX--Integration of disabled persons. This forthcoming codification moreover is intended as an opportunity for introducing appropriate adjustments and amendments, as well as for considering the possibilities for limited material reform. The Federal Rehabilitation Council has submitted a number of proposals to the Federal government aimed at settling various intersectoral aspects of rehabilitation legislation in the forthcoming Book IX.