9 Amendments of Kerstin WESTPHAL related to 2016/0288(COD)
Amendment 193 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 44 a (new)
Recital 44 a (new)
(44a) Member States should ensure that end-users with disabilities enjoy equal access and choice to electronic communication services, in respect to the obligations enshrined in the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) and according to the UNCRPD Committee General Comment nº 2 on Accessibility on the application of Universal Design approach. Member States should therefore take the necessary measures, including ex ante conditions, to ensure that electronic communication service providers and related equipment manufacturers make their services and products accessible for end-users with disabilities following a Universal Design approach.
Amendment 212 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 196
Recital 196
(196) A fundamental requirement of universal service is to ensure that all end- users havefollow a Universal Design approach in order to ensure that all end-users, including end-users with disabilities, have equal access ato an affordable price toand available functional internet access and voicetwo-way communications services, at least at a fixed location to all citizens, especially for socially disadvantaged communities. Member States should also have the possibility to ensure affordability, availability and accessibility of services not provided at a fixed location butlso to citizens on the move, where they deem this necessary to ensure their full social and economic participation in society. There should be no limitations on the technical means by which the connection is provided, allowing for wired or wireless technologies, nor any limitations on the category of operators which provide part or all of universal service obligations.
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 200
Recital 200
(200) Affordable price means a price defined by Member States at national level in the light of specific national conditions, and may involve special tariff options or packages to deal with the needs of low- income users or users with special social needs, including the elderly, the disabled and the end-users. These end-users may include older people living in rural or geographically isolated areas. These offers should be provided with basic features, in order to avoid distortion of the functioning of the marketensure their right to access publicly available electronic communication services. Affordability for individual end- users should be founded upon their right to contract with an undertaking, availability of a number, continued connection of service and their ability to monitor and control their expenditure.
Amendment 259 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 254
Recital 254
(254) In line with the objectives of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the regulatory framework should ensure that all users, including disabled end- users, the elderly with disabilities, older people, and users with special social needs, have easy and equal access to affordable and accessible high quality services. Declaration 22 annexed to the final Act of Amsterdam provides that the institutions of the Union shall take account of the needs of persons with a disabilityies in drawing up measures under Article 114 of the TFEU.
Amendment 269 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 257
Recital 257
(257) Member States should take specific measures to ensure that emergency services, including ‘112’, are equally accessible to disabled end-userend-users with disabilities, in particular deaf, hearing-impaired, speech- impaired and deaf-blind users through real time text or the use of third party relay services interoperable with the telephony networks across the EU. This could also involve the provision of special terminal devices for hearing-impaired users, text relay services, or other specific equipmentpeople with disabilities when the abovementioned ways of communication are not suitable for them.
Amendment 603 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 96 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point g b (new)
Article 96 – paragraph 2 – subparagraph 2 – point g b (new)
(gb) be accessible for persons with disabilities
Amendment 658 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 100 – paragraph 1
Article 100 – paragraph 1
1. If a bundle of services or a bundle of services and goodsterminal equipment offered to an end- user comprises at least a publicly available electronic communications service other than number-independent interpersonal communications services, Articles 95, 96 (1), 98 and 99 (1) shall apply mutatis mutandis to all elements of the bundle except where the provisions applicable to another element of the bundle are more favourable to the end-user.
Amendment 755 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 106 – paragraph 2
Article 106 – paragraph 2
(2) Neither paragraph 1 of this Article nor Article 57(2) shall prejudice the ability of Member States to determine appropriate remuneration, if any, in respect of measures taken in accordance with this Article while ensuring that, in similar circumstances, there is no discrimination in the treatment of undertakings providing electronic communications networks. Where remuneration is to be provided for, the requirement for remuneration and its level shall be laid down by law and Member States shall ensure that it is applied in a proportionate and transparent manner.
Amendment 765 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex V
Annex V