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Plenary speeches (2)
Accessibility requirements for products and services (debate) EL
Accessibility requirements for products and services (debate) EL
Shadow opinions (2)
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States as regards the accessibility requirements for products and services
OPINION on the proposal for a directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States as regards the accessibility requirements for products and services
Amendments (75)
Amendment 20 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 a (new)
Citation 4 a (new)
Having regard to the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms (ETS No. 5, 1950) and its Protocols),
Amendment 21 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 b (new)
Citation 4 b (new)
Having regard to the European Social Charter (ETS No. 35, 1961, revised in 1996, ETS No. 163),
Amendment 22 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 c (new)
Citation 4 c (new)
Having regard to the Recommendation Rec(2002)5 of the Committee of Ministers to Member States of the Council of Europe on the protection of women against violence and Recommendation CM/Rec(2007)17 on gender equality standards and mechanisms,
Amendment 23 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 d (new)
Citation 4 d (new)
Having regard to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (1966),
Amendment 24 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 e (new)
Citation 4 e (new)
Having regard to the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (‘CEDAW’, 1979) and its Optional Protocol (1999),
Amendment 25 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 f (new)
Citation 4 f (new)
Having regard to the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) and its Optional Protocols (2000),
Amendment 26 #
Proposal for a directive
Citation 4 g (new)
Citation 4 g (new)
Having regard to the European Parliament Directorate General for Internal Policies for the Union study titled ‘Discrimination Generated by the Intersection of Gender and Disability’,
Amendment 27 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 1
Recital 1
(1) The purpose of this Directive is to contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market by approximating laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Member States, by eliminating barriers to the free movement of certain accessible products and services. This will increase the availability to all EU citizens, regardless their gender, disability, national origin, social origin, race, age, sexual orientation, political or other opinion, religion and/or language, of accessible products and services on the internal market.
Amendment 31 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2
Recital 2
(2) The demand for accessible products and services is high and the number of citizepersons with disabilities and/or functional limitation persons with age related or other impairments will increase significantly with the ageing of the European Union’s population. An environment where products and services are more accessible allows for a more inclusive society and facilitatesis prerequisite for independent living.
Amendment 34 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 a (new)
Recital 2 a (new)
(2a) Over 80 million persons with disabilities are living in the EU who are in urgent need of an accessible and unprejudiced environment; whereas one in four Europeans has a family member with a disability.
Amendment 36 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 b (new)
Recital 2 b (new)
(2b) People with disabilities together with other persons with temporarily reduced mobility represent 40% of the EU population.
Amendment 37 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 c (new)
Recital 2 c (new)
(2c) According to the United Nations, 1 in 5 women across the world has a disability and the prevalence of disability is actually higher among women than men.
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 d (new)
Recital 2 d (new)
(2d) 75% of people with severe disabilities do not have the opportunity to fully participate in the European labour market.
Amendment 39 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 e (new)
Recital 2 e (new)
(2e) One out of two persons with disabilities has never participated in leisure, cultural or sport activities.
Amendment 40 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 f (new)
Recital 2 f (new)
(2f) There are approximately 40 million women and girls with disabilities in the EU.
Amendment 41 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 g (new)
Recital 2 g (new)
(2g) In the EU-28, 44 million people aged between 15 and 64 (14.0 % of that age group) reported a basic activity difficulty.
Amendment 42 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 h (new)
Recital 2 h (new)
(2h) Approximately 35 million people aged 15–64 (11.0 %) in the EU-28 reported a disability in employment.
Amendment 43 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 i (new)
Recital 2 i (new)
(2i) More than 1 in 3 people throughout the EU are subject to a work limitation caused by a longstanding health problem or an activity difficulty and are also limited by other personal or environmental factors.
Amendment 44 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 j (new)
Recital 2 j (new)
(2j) People with activity limitation are more exposed than people with no limitation and are therefore subject to experience the risk of poverty.
Amendment 45 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 k (new)
Recital 2 k (new)
(2k) Over 15 % of employed people with disabilities worked from home in 2011, compared to 13 % of those with no disability.
Amendment 46 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 l (new)
Recital 2 l (new)
(2l) More than one third of people with disabilities reported a need for assistance, with the proportion nearer to two fifths among disabled women.
Amendment 47 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 m (new)
Recital 2 m (new)
(2m) More than one quarter (27.9 %) of people aged 15–64 not in work in the EU- 28 who had a long-standing health problem and/or a basic activity difficulty reported that they would need some form of assistance in order to be able to work.
Amendment 48 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 n (new)
Recital 2 n (new)
(2n) The proportion of employed women in the EU-28 who had a long- standing health problem and/or a basic activity difficulty and who reported that they had used some kind of assistance at work was higher than the equivalent proportion for men.
Amendment 49 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 o (new)
Recital 2 o (new)
(2o) The Union has a continuously increasing aging population leading to a significance increase of people with age related impairments who are in need of accessible products and services and a well-designed built-in environment that will allow them to continue with their everyday life activities.
Amendment 50 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 p (new)
Recital 2 p (new)
(2p) The marginalisation of women with disabilities is greater compared to the isolation faced by men with disabilities.
Amendment 51 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 q (new)
Recital 2 q (new)
(2q) Multiple discrimination of different forms and shapes on grounds of gender and disability persists and their onset leads to social (such as lower self- esteem, economic reliance, social isolation), educational (such as high illiteracy rates, lower educational attainment especially for women) and labour market exclusion (lower participation in the labour market, tendency to hold low paid, temporary or precarious work) causing further stress and psychological burden for persons with disabilities, their families and carers.
Amendment 52 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 r (new)
Recital 2 r (new)
(2r) Article 9 of UNCRPD recognises that appropriate measures must be taken to ensure girls and women with disabilities enjoy real access to the physical environment, transportation, information and communications, including information and communication technologies and to other facilities and services open or provided to the public, both in rural and urban areas.
Amendment 53 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 s (new)
Recital 2 s (new)
(2s) Participation of citizens with disabilities, and especially women who are often under-represented in political and public life and marginalised, is a matter of dignity and further actions on the basis of Article 16 UNCRPD should be taken.
Amendment 54 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 t (new)
Recital 2 t (new)
(2t) According to Article 16 UNCRPD, the three facets of participation are information, education and integration; whereas the enforcement of the Accessibility Act will effectively attribute to the realization of these facets in the Member States.
Amendment 55 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 u (new)
Recital 2 u (new)
(2u) Despite the numerous international Conventions and European Law provisions, still the citizen and social rights of persons with disabilities are not fully enjoyed by them as, for example, are not given fair and equal possibilities to participate in the political social and economic life; whereas women and girls with disabilities remain at the margins of decision-making and progress and gender equality.
Amendment 56 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 v (new)
Recital 2 v (new)
(2v) It lays in the responsibility of state and public authorities of the Member States to provide persons with disabilities and people with age related impairments, and mothers/carers of dependant people with an accessible environment that is adapted in such a way that allows them to fully enjoy their rights on equal footing with people without disabilities or other impairments.
Amendment 57 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 w (new)
Recital 2 w (new)
(2w) Women with disabilities are in a greater poverty risk and therefore the barriers set for their participation and inclusion to labour market, education schemes and social life must be urgently lifted.
Amendment 58 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 x (new)
Recital 2 x (new)
(2x) Well-designed built-in environment in all public sphere related activities and services would enable and encourage women, and especially women with disabilities, to participate in the socio-economic life.
Amendment 59 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 y (new)
Recital 2 y (new)
(2y) Women and girls with disabilities often suffer from lack of information and protection of their sexual and reproductive rights and have limited or no access to services and products that would enable them to fully enjoy those rights.
Amendment 60 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 z (new)
Recital 2 z (new)
(2z) Women with disabilities have lower incomes and often do not own a vehicle and live longer than their male companions, there is an increased need to promote neighbourhood proximity, pedestrian, building and housing adjustments in order to reduce the factors that contribute to the exclusion of them to socio-economic, education and labour life of their.
Amendment 61 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 aa (new)
Recital 2 aa (new)
(2aa) Female passengers outnumber male passengers in public transportation and taking into consideration that women often have more complex transportation patterns as many care for dependant family members; whereas accessibility to transportation and to services and products related to transportation should be easily accessible to people with disabilities in order to ensure that they can enjoy independent mobility.
Amendment 62 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 ab (new)
Recital 2 ab (new)
(2ab) The built-in environment should be designed in such a way that would eliminate the risks of exclusion, accident, abuse and violence that more often are facing vulnerable groups of population, such as women boys and girls, people with disabilities, migrants and refugees.
Amendment 63 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 ac (new)
Recital 2 ac (new)
(2ac) Universal accessibility, design for all and gender-perspective should be ensured in products, tools, devices and services for them to be commonly used for men, boys, women and girls with disabilities.
Amendment 64 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 ad (new)
Recital 2 ad (new)
(2ad) Commonly used products (such as watches, cars, wheelchairs, doctor´s examination beds, contraceptive products etc.) should be designed for easy and accessible use both by men, boys, women and girls with disabilities.
Amendment 65 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 ae (new)
Recital 2 ae (new)
(2ae) Support, protection, communication, care and health services, such as the ones connected to primary health, violence against women, childcare, motherhood, female sexual and reproductive rights, should be fully accessible in all languages, forms and formats by all women, and especially by women and girls with disabilities.
Amendment 66 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 2 af (new)
Recital 2 af (new)
(2af) Health services personnel should be adequately trained in terms of disability sensitive issues so that it will be possible to better address the needs of people with disabilities; whereas employing persons with disabilities in health service units will allow patients with disabilities to better accommodate themselves and feel that someone can understand and address their needs; whereas having people with disabilities to work in public services, as the health care services, would also serve as motivation to people with disabilities.
Amendment 68 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 3
Recital 3
(3) The disparities between the laws and administrative measures adopted by the Member States in relation to accessibility of products and services for persons with functional limitations including persons with disabilitiesdisabilities, with age related or any other impairments, create barriers to the free movement of such products and services and distort effective competition in the internal market. Economic operators, in particular small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), are particularly affected by those barriers.
Amendment 73 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 5
Recital 5
(5) Consumers of accessible products and recipients of accessible services are faced with high prices due to limited competition among suppliers, which in combination with lower income and risk of poverty - especially for women with disabilities - leads to limiting the possibility of making use of these products and enjoying these services. Fragmentation among national regulations reduces potential benefits from sharing experiences with national and international peers in responding to societal and technological developments.
Amendment 78 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 9
Recital 9
(9) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. In particular, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for the rights of persons with disabilities and persons with age related or any other impairments, taking into account gender perspectives, in order for them to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, socialo-economic, political, education and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community and to promote the application of Article 25 and 26 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.
Amendment 83 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 10
Recital 10
(10) The overall aim of the ‘Digital Single Market Strategy’, is to deliver sustainable economic and social benefits from a connected digital single market. Union consumers still do not enjoy the full benefits of prices and choice that the single market can offer, because cross-border online transactions are still very limited. Fragmentation also limits demand for cross-border e-commerce transactions. There is also a need for concerted action to make sure that new electronic content is also fully available to persons with disabilities and persons with age related or other impairments. It is therefore necessary to harmonise accessibility requirements across the digital single market and to ensure that all Union citizens regardless of their abilities or gender can enjoy its benefits.
Amendment 86 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The entry into force of the Convention in the Member States’ legal orders entails the need to adopt additional national provisions on accessibility of products and services which, design for all, built environment. Gender- perspective must be ensured in products, tools, devices and services for them to be commonly used for men, boys, women and girls with disabilities, who without Union action would further increasesuffer from disparities between national provisions.
Amendment 92 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) It is necessary to introduce the accessibility requirements in the most effective, gender inclusive and least burdensome manner for the economic operators and the Member States, notably by only including in the scope the products and services which have been thoroughly selected.
Amendment 95 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 21 a (new)
Recital 21 a (new)
(21a) Including a gender perspective dimension to the proposal for the Directive on the approximation of the laws, regulations and administrative provisions of the Members States as regards the accessibility requirements for products and services, will contribute to an integrated approach to eliminating further discrimination to women with disabilities, mother using baby strolls and women that serve as carers for dependent persons.
Amendment 110 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 43
Recital 43
(43) For services, the information necessary to assess the conformity with the accessibility requirements should be provided in the general terms and conditions, or equivalent document in all languages and formats for people with disabilities and persons with age related or any other impairments.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 45
Recital 45
(45) In accordance with Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 by affixing the CE marking to a product, and complementary information for products and services that meet the accessibility requirements the manufacturer declares that the product is in conformity with all applicable accessibility requirements and that he takes full responsibility therefor.
Amendment 115 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 50
Recital 50
(50) A safeguard procedure should be set up which applies only in the event of disagreement between Member States over measures taken by a Member State under whichwhereby interested parties are informed of measures intended to be taken with regard to products not complying with the accessibility requirements of this Directive. It should allow market surveillance authorities, in cooperation with organisations representing persons with disabilities, gender equality organizations and the relevant economic operators, to act at an earlier stage in respect of such products.
Amendment 123 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point e
Article 1 – paragraph 2 – point e
(e) e-books, on-line courses and education related material;
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 21 a (new)
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 4
Article 3 – paragraph 4
4. Telephony services, including emergency services and the related consumer terminal equipment with advanced computing capability, shall comply with the requirements set out in Section III of Annex I. Member States shall ensure the availability of at least one text based relay service and one video based relay service, within the entire territory of the Member State and continuously, in consultation with users' organisations, including organisations representing persons with disabilities, that these relay services are interoperable with the telephony services. Member States shall also ensure the availability of audio, video and real-time text communication (Total Conversation) with national, regional, and local emergency services, including support lines (such as the ones offering protection to women-victims of violence).
Amendment 132 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 10
Article 3 – paragraph 10
10. Member States may decide, in the light of national conditions,shall ensure that the built environment used by clients of passenger transport services and products including the environment that is managed by service providers and by infrastructure operators as well as the built environment used by clients of banking services, and customer services centres and shops under the scope of telephony operators shall comply with the accessibility requirements of Annex I, section X, in order to maximise their use by persons with functional limitations, including persons with disabilities, especially women who are the majority of these services´ users.
Amendment 136 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 5 – paragraph 9
Article 5 – paragraph 9
9. Manufacturers shall, further to a reasoned request from a provide competent national authority, provide ities with all the information, training and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of the product, in a and services in a format and language which can be easily understood by that authorityoth by the person and by the authority or authorities concerned. They shall cooperate with that authority, at its request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by products or services which they have placed on the market and to ensure compliance with the requirements referred to in Article 3.
Amendment 139 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 9
Article 7 – paragraph 9
9. Importers shall, further to a reasoned request from a provide competent national authority, provide ities with all the information, training and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of a product inor a service in a formation and a language which can be easily understood by that authorityoth by the person and by the authority or authorities concerned. They shall cooperate with that authority, at its request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by products which they have placed on the market.
Amendment 142 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 8 – paragraph 6
Article 8 – paragraph 6
6. Distributors shall, further to a reasoned request from a provide competent national authority, provide ities with all the information and documentation necessary to demonstrate the conformity of a product. They shall cooperate with that authoritye authority or authorities concerned, at its request, on any action taken to eliminate the risks posed by products which they have made available on the market.
Amendment 144 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Relevant stakeholders, including persons with disabilities representative organisations and gender equality bodies, shall be consulted systematically as part of the procedure for the full and non- discriminatory, especially in terms of disability and gender, adoption of implementing acts.
Amendment 180 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 13
Recital 13
(13) The entry into force of the Convention in the Member States’ legal orders entails the need to adopt additional national provisions including for the built environment related to the provision of on accessibility of products and services which without Union action would further increase disparities between national provisions.
Amendment 192 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) It is therefore necessary to specify accessibility requirements for the placing on the market of products and services as well as the built environment connected to the provision of those products and services, which fall within the scope of this Directive in order to ensure their free circulation in the internal market and persons' mobility.
Amendment 219 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 30
Recital 30
(30) The manufacturer having detailed knowledge of the design and production process is best placed to carry out the complete conformity assessment procedure. The obligations for conformity assessment should rest with the manufactshould not rest only with the manufacturer. A strengthened market surveillance authority could play a crucial role in this procedurer.
Amendment 224 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 36
Recital 36
(36) For reasons of proportionality, accessibility requirements should only apply to the extent that they do not impose a disproportionate burden on the economic operator concerned, or require a change in the products and services which would result in their fundamental alteration in accordance with the specified criteria. Control mechanisms nevertheless have to be in place in order to verify, where necessary, the rightful exception from the accessibility requirements application.
Amendment 229 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 1
(1) “accessible products and services” are products and services that are perceptible, operable and understandable for persons with functional limitations, including persons with disabilitiedisabilities, including persons handicapped by age or other factors, on an equal basis with others;
Amendment 231 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 39
Recital 39
(39) In order to facilitate conformity assessment with applicable requirements it is necessary to provide for a presumption of conformity for products and services which are in conformity with voluntary harmonised standards that are adopted in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council39 for the purpose of expressing detailed technical specifications of those requirements. The Commission has already issued a number of standardisation requests to the European standardisation organisations on accessibility which would be relevant for the preparation of harmonised standards. The Commission should consider issuing further standardisation requests on specific issues related to this Directive because harmonised standards can significantly facilitate the implementation of this Directive by the Member States and the private sector. In that regard, organizations for persons with disabilities should be directly __________________ 39 Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012 of 25 October 2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council on European standardisation, amending Council Directives 89/686/EEC and 93/15/EEC and Directives 94/9/EC, 94/25/EC, 95/16/EC, 97/23/EC, 98/34/EC, 2004/22/EC, 2007/23/EC, 2009/23/EC and 2009/105/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and repealing Council Decision 87/95/EEC and Decision No 1673/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ L 316, 14.11.2012, p. 12)
Amendment 240 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44
Recital 44
(44) The CE marking, indicating the conformity of a product with the accessibility requirements of this Directive, is the visible consequence of a whole process comprising conformity assessment in a broad sense. This Directive should follow the general principles governing the CE marking of Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council40 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products. A separate marking system should be introduced in order to be clearer for all consumers, including persons with disabilities, with aged related or any other impairments, that specific products and services comply with this Directive. The CE marking will thus be complemented by information on the packaging to indicate accessibility to the users. __________________ 40 Regulation (EC) No 765/2008 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 July 2008 setting out the requirements for accreditation and market surveillance relating to the marketing of products and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 339/93 (OJ L 218, 13/08/2008, p. 30).
Amendment 272 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 11 – paragraph 2
Article 11 – paragraph 2
2. Service providers shall prepare the necessary information in accordance with Annex III explaining how the services meet the accessibility requirements referred to in Article 3. The information shall be made available to the public in written and oral format, including in a manner which is accessible to persons with functional limitations and persons with disabilitiesdisabilities and persons incapacitated by age or any other factor. Service providers shall keep the information as long as the service is in operation.
Amendment 323 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 14 a (new)
(14a) "specialised personnel" means professionals with expertise in operating the services concerned who can explain to persons with disabilities and to persons with age-related or other impairments how to make use of the accessible products and services, providing education, instructional training or any similar support to the users;
Amendment 367 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 3 – paragraph 10 a (new)
Article 3 – paragraph 10 a (new)
10a. Specialised personnel that can provide education, instructional training and similar support to users shall be available by service providers or Member- States competent services. ESF funding can be used for this purpose in order to provide both vocational and continuing training to these persons.
Amendment 407 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2
Member States shall ensure that the public is informed of the existence, responsibilities and identity of the authorities referred to in the first subparagraph. Those authorities shall make the information available in accessible formats upon request and ensure that specialized personnel to provide education and instructional training is available for users.
Amendment 482 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 4
Article 12 – paragraph 4
4. The burden shall not be deemed disproportionate where it is compensated by funding from other sources than the economic operator’'s own resources, whether public or private. Lack of priority, time or knowledge shall not be considered as legitimate reasons to claim the disproportionate burden.
Amendment 492 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 6 a (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 6 a (new)
6a. A structured dialogue shall be established between relevant stakeholders, including persons with disabilities and their representative organisations and the market surveillance authorities to ensure that adequate principles for the assessment of the exceptions are established in order to ensure that they are coherent.
Amendment 507 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 17 – paragraph 3 a (new)
Article 17 – paragraph 3 a (new)
3a. Each Μember State shall establish a public accessible database register of non –accessible product. Consumers shall be able to consult and log information about non – accessible products. Member States shall take the necessary measures to inform consumers or other interested parties of the possibility to lodge complaints. An interactive system between the national databases shall be envisaged possibly under the responsibility of the Commission or the relevant representative organizations so that information on non- accessible products can be disseminated across the Europe.
Amendment 529 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 19 – paragraph 8 a (new)
Article 19 – paragraph 8 a (new)
8a. To facilitate the exchange of information and best practices amongst the market surveillance authorities and to ensure coherence in the application of the accessibility requirements set out in this Directive or in cases deemed necessary following a request by the Commission to express an opinion on exceptions from those requirements, the Commission shall establish a working group formed by representatives of the national market surveillance authorities and the representative organisations of the relevant stakeholders, including persons with disabilities.
Amendment 554 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
Article 25 – paragraph 2 – point b a (new)
(ba) provisions whereby a comprehensive and adequately resourced complaints mechanism for consumers is established to complement a system of implementation and monitoring.