4 Amendments of Jeanine HENNIS-PLASSCHAERT related to 2008/0140(CNS)
Amendment 250 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
Article 4 – paragraph 1 – point a
(a) The measures necessary to enable persons with disabilities to have effective non-discriminatory access to social protection, social advantages, health care, education and access to and supply of goods and services which are available to the public, including housing and transport, shall be provided by anticipation, including through appropriate modifications or adjustments. If effective non-discriminatory access is hampered by existing practices and/or procedures, measures must be taken to remove the obstacle, gradually or otherwise. Such measures should not impose a disproportionate burden, nor require fundamental alteration of the social protection, social advantages, health care, education, or goods and services in question or require the provision of alternatives thereto.
Amendment 262 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 4 – paragraph 2
Article 4 – paragraph 2
2. For the purposes of assessing whether measures necessary to comply with paragraph 1 would impose a disproportionate burden, account shall be taken, in particular, of the size and resources of the organisation, its nature, the estimated cost, the life cycle of the goods and services, and the possible benefits of increased access for persons with disabilities, pursuant to Directive 2000/78/EC and the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. The burden shall not be disproportionate when it is sufficiently remedied by measures existing within the framework of the equal treatment policy of the Member State concerned.
Amendment 317 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 13 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. Member States shall review carefully what provisions as referred to in points (a) and (b) exist when this Directive enters into force, so that clear baseline measurement is performed. They shall immediately inform the Commission of them.
Amendment 325 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 16 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. No later than ** years after the entry into force of this Directive, a comprehensive Community legal framework relating to non-discrimination must be in force in the form of a single Directive consolidating and thus replacing all existing Directives based on Article 13 of the EC Treaty, including this Directive. This new Directive shall provide for an equal level of protection for each ground for discrimination.