Activites

• #2429
• 2002/05/30 Council Meeting
• 2001/12/19 Final act published in Official Journal
  • Decision 2001/903
  • OJ L 335 19.12.2001, p. 0015
• #2392
• 2001/12/03 Council Meeting
• 2001/12/03 End of procedure in Parliament
• 2001/12/03 Act adopted by Council after consultation of Parliament
• 2001/11/28 Modified legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0721 summary

    The European Parliament proposed 52 amendments, 27 of which were accepted fully or in part by the Commission. The amendments accepted by the Commission have been incorporated into the revised proposal. Most of the amendments adopted by the Parliament and accepted by the Commission serve to reinforce or clarify the Decision's objectives, thereby improving the text. With one of the amendments, the Parliament has also asked for 90% of the eligible costs of certain Community scale measures. However, the Commission considers that the rate of 80% should be retained, given that this is the rate already agreed for the awareness measures under the Community anti-discrimination programme. The Commission is also unable to accept adjusting the funding of actions undertaken by the Member States to 60%. This proposal would reduce the multiplier effect the Commission hopes to draw from this measure. In the interests of clarity and concision, the Commission could not accept certain amendments duplicating provisions already contained in the initial proposal. Finally, the Parliament was prompting the Commission to use the Year as an opportunity to make new legislative proposal. However, these latter suggestions cannot easily be accepted in their current form, as the Commission cannot commit itself to a proposal to make further proposals. The Commission nevertheless considers that the European Year will provide an appropriate and necessary framework for discussing the Parliament's proposed initiatives.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/social/', 'title': 'Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion'}],
• 2001/11/15 Debate in Parliament
  • Debate in Parliament
  • T5-0621/2001 summary

    The European Parliament adopted the report by Mrs Liz LYNNE (ELDR, UK) concerning the 'European Year of People with disabilities', together with a number of amendments. (Please refer to the previous text).�

• 2001/10/23 Vote in committee, 1st reading/single reading
  • A5-0377/2001
• #2373
• 2001/10/08 Council Meeting
  • 2373
• 2001/07/05 Committee referral announced in Parliament, 1st reading/single reading
• #2357
• 2001/06/11 Council Meeting
  • 2357
• 2001/05/29 Legislative proposal published
  • COM(2001)0271 summary

    PURPOSE : to present a proposal on the European Year of People with Disabilities 2003. CONTENT : throughout the Union, people with diasabilities face barriers not only in finding and keeping a job but also in finding accessible transportation, physically accessing buildings and facilities or gaining access to the technologies that would help them to become more fully involved in work and in society at large. Therefore, this proposal for a Council Decision proposes to establish a concerted pan-European platform which has the potential to attract considerable attention to a citizenship issue, at both European and national levels, and to stimulate activity that otherwise might not have taken place. Moreover, the European Year could lay the foundations for further, sustainable progress, by informing and educating the people and paving the way for new legal and policy developments. Th objectives of the European Year of People with Disabilities shall be: - to raise awareness of the rights of people with disabilities to protection against discrimination and to full and equal enjoyment of their rights as laid down, inter alia, in the provisions of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union; - to encourage reflection on and discussion of the measures needed to promote equal opportunities for people with disabilities in Europe; - to promote the exchange of experiences of good practice and effective strategies devised at local, national and European level; - to reinforce cooperation between all parties concerned, namely government at all levels, the private sector, communities, voluntary sector groups, people with disabilities and their families; - to highlight the positive contribution that people with disabilities make to society as a whole, in particular by putting a value on diversity and by creating a positive and accommodating environment in which diversity is celebrated; - to make people aware of the heterogeniety of people with disabilities and of people with disabilities facing multiple discrimination. The measures designed to meet these objectives may include: - the organisation of meetings and events, including the opening an closing of conferences; - information and promotion campaigns including the production of tools and aids and accessible to people with disabilities throughout the Community; - cooperation with the media; - surveys and reports; - events to provide information, in particular information on examples of good practice; - financial support for initiatives at transnational, national and regional and local level, to promote the objectives of the European Year of People with Disabilities. Lastly, the proposed budget for the European Year of People with Disabilities is limited. Subject to the final decision of the budgetary authority a total of EUR 12 million is being set aside at European level for 2002-2003.�

  • DG [{'url': 'http://ec.europa.eu/social/', 'title': 'Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion'}],

Documents

• Legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0271
• Debate in Council: 2357
• Debate in Council: 2373
• Committee report tabled for plenary, 1st reading/single reading: A5-0377/2001
• Debate in Parliament: Debate in Parliament
• Decision by Parliament, 1st reading/single reading: T5-0621/2001
• Modified legislative proposal published: COM(2001)0721
• : Decision 2001/903
• : OJ L 335 19.12.2001, p. 0015

History

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