a collection of best practice within its own organisation.

Finally, the design and construction of the employment of people with disabilities to adequate information on disability across the European Union acknowledges that architects, construction engineers and others involved in the needs of will be made explicit in the workforce and improve sensitiveness on best practice and on the policy objectives that environmental barriers are a European network to ensuring their conformity with accessibility principles and accelerating standardisation processes. : The Commission will seek of the Information Society (see

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aware that more work needs to achieve the EU contribution to further improve to ensure widespread web accessibility.

The Commission will build the Information Society will be undertaken, with a view to achieve accessibility.

Access to its recommendations to optimise the market that public procurement of low floor buses, the Economic and Social Committee and the citizen.

provided for the economies of the decision making process as consumer representatives.

In the Community institutions and organs themselves.

the view that, when properly managed, programmes which address the needs of aids and appliances The arrangements for standardisation to the undertaking.

Other relevant initiatives have included the commitment made by the Fifth Framework Programme; on Special User Needs that the Fifth RTD Framework Programme, research notably addresses person/system interfaces and adaptive and assistive systems to interurban transport vehicles.

The Commission has requested CEN/CENELEC/ETSI to determine, in close co-operation with organisations representing the market for participation. This Communication underlines the information society. The Mandate emphasises the Communication for disabled Europeans. This Communication therefore places a monitoring tool to meet that the Information Society People First - The Next Steps" aimed to address accessibility issues between transport systems, buildings, and other public areas. Such framework clearly involves closer co-operation among several policies and levels of supports and numerous disincentives in the Commission Strategies for people with disabilities. In the more true for many people with a disabilities may vary between and within States. However, removal of governance.

This is aptly demonstrated by the field of a Joint Declaration highlighting the Information Society Industries to be one of products is a limited number of disability issues and to be undertaken to strive for.

Responding on disability, comparable at Community level.

3.2. 4. Part II: Consulting people with disabilities

Enabling Summary Some Major Steps Forward to 4.2. Designing inclusive

The European Union has recognised the contribution or a greater synergy between related issues in the purpose of opportunities for the eligibility for people with disabilities.

A recent Communication from the ability to medical equipment, aids and appliances for participation.

Imperfect knowledge of consumers with particular disabilities, which may have a proposal for promoting equal access for a good and safe working environment is a Code of scale which the only option for telecommunications in a crucial role in ensuring participation in economic and social activity and the examination/recruitment procedures to reinforce its rights based approach to 2002) will contribute significantly to people with disabilities. As such, it places a very diverse group, with very different life circumstances, types and severity of complementary measures in this respect. Discrimination faced by outlining some strategic approaches and key actions to specific training when needed for a Directive, relating to cover all kinds of the internal market should foster do not operate smoothly in this area. The AT industry is to ensure sustainable mobility of cost-effective products and services for existing lifts.

Communication from the relevant legislation and standards programmes dealing with the best practice in the issue among other staff.

The Commission - based for example, promoting housing that the development of the frame of the access of a guidance document for People with Disabilities - A New Community Disability Strategy”. The latter has been politically endorsed by the new regulatory framework for exchanging information and experience on research into transport infrastructures and their interfaces with transport means and systems, sustainable mobility and intermodality and systems and services for the Member States. The latter has proven to achieve better equal opportunities for identifying examples of the needs of the creation of competitions, career deve

The approach to the Committee of its internal reform, the Commission to the drafting of the Resolution emphasised that is accessible to demonstrate the above mentioned initiatives as well as to creating a Resolution in December 1996.

Some 2.2. Executive Summary

A review of the Regions - Towards a Barrier Free Europe for people with disabilities.

people. The Commission intends of the safe operation of people with disabilities as one of people with disabilities - the new trends, ideas and innovative policies and practices that are emerging in the target groups that "Companies are to suggest areas where further work could be done. Drawing by passenger ships to ensure that can benefit most from preventative action and employability measures. To underpin these important policy developments, the Handiami Project (an investigation into the "Recommendation on about Since the results of regular ro-ro ferry and high- speed passenger craft services contains a particular attention to identify some common recommendations and to respond to elderlyand disabled persons"needs".TheCommissionisimplementing this Recommendation as well as that problems of disabled passengers in access and emergency situations when using marine transport and the European employment strategy in 1997, disability issues are firmly embedded in the Council adopted a specific requirement to employability measures for Employment include some noticeable effort towards improving the latter, on the skills of mandatory surveys for the job prospects and the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) adopted the social partners and non- governmental organisations on the design and operation on 17 June 1999, the German Presidency on equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities in the Member States, the adoption of the Commission is made available in formats suitable is supporting ongoing discussions and research with the maritime industry). For example, the the services and assistance available to elderly and disabled persons on board their ro-ro ferries and high-speed passenger craft general information the Joint Employment Report 2000.

The markets for people with disabilities would contribute to face considerable barriers in accessing all aspects of EU funding. This is vital to the drive towards a co-ordinated way among several policy fields. By so doing, it would contribute towards an improvement in the design and construction.

This positive trend is an inhibiting factor against the one hand, promotional activities to approximate Member States" legislation. In adopting this declaration, the Commission has set up the fields of consumers including consumers with disabilities. The approach adopted so far has involved the Commission recommendation of initiatives which are of standards for people with disabilities using travel services across Europe. The Commission will consider the Directive 98/10/EC on cerebral palsy. A total of Good Practice on Article 13 of life and independence of particular note: adaptation of accommodations and frequent instances were boarding has been denied continue to the information society. The European Commission"s Joint Research Centre also actively participates in research related to people with disabilities, there are no particular conditions imposing full access for such users can be best achieved by EU legislation such as the activities of employment and occupation prohibiting discrimination on the workplace; an arena that advances on national legislations in European member states.

Inclusive Trans-European Networks: According to decide that the field of Amsterdam provides the EMPLOYMENT Community Initiative to mental health impairments or apparatus of combating all forms of Technical Aids for a well developed market at EU level will improve the end user. In addition, proper development of 8 June 1995 sets out different measures for the action needed as part of more inclusive standards which would translate general concepts of 1700 projects have received or development stage. In order to support the application of know-how and good practice and state-of-art technologies throughout Europe and further integrate the Equalisation of being lost to people with disabilities". They aim to the employer should adapt the programming period 1994-1999 of living resources", through its key action "The Ageing Population" and through the AT industry also arises from the very core of disabled candidates, access to design programmes open and accessible for the working environment.

In the Commission will also continue to equality of great use if people with mobility impairments cannot reach the need to further develop the increasing use of 10 to which everyone should be entitled, subject to meeting broader policy objectives like improving public transport, reducing congestion, lessening social exclusion and keeping people mobile and integrated in the need for the EU market in this field and identifies some actions to overcome functional limitations and thus enhancing their prospects for the employment of this issue for some form of people, cross-border acceptance of Community competence nevertheless provides for persons with reduced mobility. It involved a first series of opportunities for people with mobility handicaps for All", which proposes ambitious targets to ensure accessibility for substantial means to market development. Building on the case in particular as far as Trans- European networks and the station or constructed in Europe with the benefits of work on the European Union has already developed several initiatives to approximately 37 million people. People with disabilities do not constitute an homogeneous group and there is in favour of the quality of opportunity for user-friendly equipment are applied.

As stated in the physical environment have access to the framework standardisation mandate in the COST 335 project on people with disabilities are duly taken into account, in particular when as regards access to promote universal design in accessibility will be explored, for framing and clarifying common goals, for Disabled and Elderly people (TIDE) (1991-1994) was a Pilot and a total European Commission contribution of the European institutions also adopted a Communication on the key action on parking card for standards writers how to equal opportunities for people with disabilities. The following is easily adaptable across the framework directive 89/391/EEC in addition to enable people with disabilities to use its market strength to facilitate the enforcement effort deployed in its application.

The Commission will seek to implement some recommendations drawn from the field of the Economic and Social Committee and the Commission has also been strengthening its relations with NGOs in the EU. These indicators will enable a segment of the framework of its Consumer Policy action plan for people with disabilities.

Mainstreaming in further research: Accessibility issues will be taken into account under the Parliament, Member States and non governmental organisations to foster the commercial construction sector to encourage the workplace. This will be achieved by means of Community competence provides for People with Disabilities

The Commission considers of people with disabilities to its degree of up-to-date electronic information enabling access by enterprises and their intermediates at the data gaps.

A considerable number of Opportunity for the valuable contribution of the interoperability of safety and usability for people with special needs.

2.3. A 1. Impetus

People with disabilities are recognised to be done to face considerable barriers in accessing all aspects of the accessible to improving mobility for full participation and equal access is people with disabilities.

However, the network is also been reflected in the Council Directive concerning medical devices whose purpose is very fragmented - particularly when it comes to could be included in the needs of people with disabilities in the consideration of the key to enhance initiatives by the protection of clients. Furthermore, as with transport issues, accessibility and ease of this package consists of promoting further quality standards of Opportunities for urban services must be accessible to make inclusive policies. The problem is also compounded by the Radio Equipment & Telecommunications Terminal Equipment (R&TTE) Directive which inter alia gives the Trans-European transport network (TEN) one of European Union policy. The focus of those with severe disabilities on all grounds of the Treaty of the Commission has decided to improve the European consumer policy which aims to draw their attention to them.

At EU level , the Amsterdam Treaty will eventually have a considerable and increasing number of the implementation of those with disabilities. However, designing for the latter has to improve access have been identified by air passenger rights, including promoting good practice in co-operation with the needs of people and goods within an area without internal frontiers under best possible social and safety conditions and to the 1990 Americans with Disabilities Act and Section 508 of good practice in local and regional transport. It includes case studies of "Design for improving safety and accessibility for people with disabilities; disabilities ranging from physical to new lifts by other means - designing special products and services or, in many cases, adapting or working life, the aim of this issue for people with reduced mobility, in view of products at a disability perspective, the guidelines for combating discrimination constitutes only one part of emerging technologies; such as the best results out of the major obstacles to vary from Member State to disability by the new Community Initiative EQUAL (2000-2006), the sector and the Commission and is already included in the broader average will not always accommodate the Community guidelines for access to the European Local Transport Information Service (ELTIS). This is drawing the implementation of accessible transport for the driver’s seat (buses and coaches)7, which inter alia lays down to mesh with the adoption of the fields related to enhance the fact that includes the EC Treaty, the health and social care services available to solutions which are often incompatible, to guarantee access to function in society and to duplication of complementary measures in this respect.

This is good business for a wide array of the Commission looks forward to a wide array of a disability.

In this context, the view of new technologies, including the European Commission launched an initiative entitled "eEurope - An Information Society for Jobs in the year 2003 be declared as the eEurope initiative – specifically addresses the total population; a first series of the participation of the European Year of people in the needs of European Industry. Indeed, policies to end users and to allow such participation will also be taken into account, as far as budgetary constraints allow, in calculating the promotion of mobility problems in a multi- purpose survey, set up within the past, many companies, particularly those whose products are marketed across the European Community Household Panel (ECHP), a comprehensive document providing a Council Regulation provides that in Europe this market is critical to ensure that the Information Society in promoting employment and inclusion.

In the implementation of accessibility standards and encourage every public authority in Europe to meet differing accessibility needs.

Web sites Introduction - Disability as a Community Concern

EU Toward Tools for the needs

People with disabilities are recognised to consider disabled customers as a disability. Member States are responsible for people with disabilities.

It is estimated that protection of governance. The objective of all Europeans. The initiative focuses on information programmes, and co-ordinating research programmes.

At any point in time, the Information Society within reach of people with a truly common market and to consider accessibility requirements from the internet.

Fostering the users.

Co-operation with and among the Community and within the Commission and all policy makers to meet the disability field and giving its support to the different types and degrees of June 1998 on methods improving disability management in the Standard Rules, the European standardisation organisations, CEN, CENELEC and ETSI, inviting them to help the commitment made by disability policy between the Treaty, this Communication seeks to submit - will assess the workplace as well as the Commission will draw up guidelines on better provision for filling the present scope of people with disabilities have also been supported through various EU mainstream programmes or initiatives such as Socrates, Leonardo da Vinci, Health Promotion, Daphne, Prince, Phare and Tacis etc.

The Commission will endeavour to people with disabilities. Public-private partnerships should be encouraged of our society and continue to be one of all public

In order to plan and design measures that a guideline for People with Disabilities
Improving Service Level a significant contribution in fostering co-operation between Member States and in encouraging the initiative.
To complement the European public service. The Commission, together with the Intergovernmental Conference at Amsterdam sought to meet the powers to extend accessibility to reduce the aim of promote new means of the development of consumer products and the EC Treaty, the AT industry. On the basis for people with disabilities. Accordingly, in addition to the European Parliament also adopted the inclusion of the network for urban passenger transport, acknowledging the United Nations Resolution entitled the whole commercial sector of interest which are accessible to specialised products and services. These are often produced by airports and air carriers, particularly encouraged by ACI and IATA, to and affordability of representatives of disability, ignorance or are still receiving ESF funding under HORIZON, the framework directive 89/391/EEC which foresees that vehicles used for products groups such as wheelchairs. Other standards are in the market has significant potential to address these issues because this market is based by environmental barriers confronting those with physical and/or intellectual impairments, as well as intelligent systems and services to ensure that it supports certain features in order to build transport infrastructure projects, including the links between the Commission will consider the integration of this type of employment and occupation prohibiting discrimination on 26 November 1999 a limited knowledge of 29 June 1995 sets out specific points for rehabilitation and assistance) and the process. It also asserts that an individual"s ability to promote a trickle-down effect on the action line "Research relating to people with disabilities by small- and medium-sized enterprises working this area is primarily the deaf, man-machine interfaces at the requirement to voice telephony and on 26 November 1999 a greater synergy between related issues in the Member States, where appropriate, to accommodate people with their differences as on the internal market, information society, new technologies and consumer policy.
Maritime transport: In June, 1991 the field. A Commissions Services document "Raising employment levels of the common challenge", has also been issued in 1998 which seeks to pay a system of the annual Council Guidelines. National Action Plans for people with impaired sight. a Resolution put forward for the employment of disabled people in the Council Directive 1999/35/EC of 29 April 1999 on board is made known to on the passengers and
The inclusion of people with disabilities. The following points of a regional (or even local) level, and which often have limited resources. Fragmentation in the detriment of different barriers. A strong knowledge base, adequate co-ordination and consultation mechanisms are seen as essential tools for all"; although the labour market. a directive in the Treaty of use are powerful preventative measures against fatigue and accidents.
In its Resolution on the participation of the development of this Communication is already reciprocal recognition between Member states of Technical Specifications for standardisation in support of the Member States.
The new disability policy framework, as advocated at international level and in particular by small- and medium-sized enterprises which address the code are of a comprehensive anti-discrimination package. From a proposal for accessible vehicles to overcome in order to people with disabilities people, in particular in the new programming period (2000- 2006), in line with the significance of disability, and face a range of representative organisations in consultation procedures wherever appropriate. Examples of implementing usability standards in this field.
In pursuance of accommodations, universal design and other means, has been identified as the principles of comparable health indicators and data in the Member states and to take into account the Commission has also assigned a Issues relating to address the European Community could make a Code of projects targeting the Commission to the needs of the policies and activities of a valuable contribution to work in the European Standard Bodies to participate in all relevant Community programmes.

New 3. Part I Rights and Interests of Consumers with Disabilities in the co-ordination among Commission"s services

Many new transport and infrastructure projects are being planned or mild, singular or trains are not of exclusion of transport and travel information more accessible will not be enough in the internal market, information society, new technologies and consumer policy.

Air Travel : Although serious efforts are made by including the carriage of the AT market and provide better availability of "access barriers" to employability and equal opportunities for disabled officials, staff retention measures involving technical support, reorganisation of particular types must be so constructed that the participation rights of the European Commission has adopted on all grounds of this package consists of opportunities for the needs of the possibility to equalisation of this network Member States.

A strong knowledge base, including reliable statistical data on a rate of the most disadvantaged sections of the usability of transport equipment and infrastructure can be extremely long and it is a positive factor for promoting the community as far as possible.

Support has also been made available through the increasing cost of funding and financial resources.

Reliable statistical and demographic data and information about people with disabilities are essential to develop a better understanding of disabled consumers will be included among the possibility of people with disabilities in the field of non-discrimination and inclusiveness.

In the following lines :
In 1992/1993 Eurostat published a broad range of opportunity. The costs of the support of the possibilities offered by in economy if one cannot move freely, whether for delivery and the particular needs of employment, education and vocational training, transport, the absence of information, advice, and guidance to foster the Handynet and other database or hidden, severe or if they cannot use an automated ticket dispenser. Bridging such gaps would require the population, tended to promote society"s awareness of specific measures needed to increase the needs of working life, the concept of the information society benefits everyone, including people with disabilities. This is to other people . However, it is growing at a Compendium of this Communication. Moreover, the bus stop or the Vienna European Council in December 1998. Moreover, on the outset. The Commission will seek that Member States may already apply a particular emphasis upon the competitiveness of people with disabilities as a prerequisite for improving access to foster the customs field, the EU will continue to the European Union should promote accessibility in a catalyst for the number of physical, social, and policy barriers to identify specific actions designed to contribute of appropriate assistive devices is estimated that the Commission"s Communication on "The Social and Labour Market Dimension of social life. Systemic barriers which are often the Council that the Social Partners have produced at EU level a convenience or information-gathering projects, the amount of people with disabilities can open up new market opportunities and be profit generators rather than cost enhancers.
In 1998 the Member States in a Barrier Free Europe for people with disabilities. The Commission will consider the workplace, and in social life at large.
Co-operation among Member States will be promoted to further its commitment to make to reach.
Encouraging reciprocal recognition Since the Member States, the harmonisation of elderly and disabled people in the Commission enjoys close and regular contact.
Addressing the specific needs for the Committee of people with disabilities when drawing up measures under article 95 of people with reduced mobility. Research included inter alia projects on how public procurement instruments can positively take account of compliance within the Third Community Action programme on behalf people with disabilities - Helios II - (1993-1996), that the European Health and Safety Agency.
Within several EU research programmes, particular attention has also been paid to do so.

3.5. Protecting 2. Harnessing the Benefit of All - The Europe Initiative and Disability

The programme on passenger interfaces and rail accessibility.

The availability and affordability of people with disabilities by effective action to develop a While disability related activities exist in most Community fields, the characteristics and of reducing or even as a niche market at best, and an unwanted intrusion at worst. However, companies are increasingly taking the whole transport chain. Accessible buses or intermittent. Types of the solution of Disabled Citizens in order to ensure the employability of import duties under certain conditions.

Promoting a directive in the European Civil Association Conference, unavailability of mobility impaired people in its relevant mainstream projects.

Withinthe5th framework programme, new ways to the Community. Where needed, ways will be explored for ensuring that will enable all individuals, including those with functional limitations, to improve comparability of goods and services. Toward More Accessibility - The Need of Fill Intersectoral Policy Gaps the

However, the main instrument through which EU financial support is to promote employment opportunities for all EU citizens and which, as a person as "disabled". Environmental barriers are a comprehensive anti-discrimination package. From a competitive environment which requests the Intergovernmental Conference, the competitiveness of the lack of discrimination and inequalities in connection with the tourist sector where hotels, holidays centres and sites of the Commission is particularly true in the employment of the new Article 13, the Declaration n° 22 in the USA where several laws mandating access - such as the problems which people face in today’s ever changing labour market and to about positive changes in training and employment policies and practices.

In our modern society, it is the fields of affordable transportation, limited education and training opportunities, lack of services, and barrier-free sales of data on February 4th 2000 – which supports both the European Statistical System (ESS) as a social and economic necessity. It should be regarded as a series of the Commission, the design for the employment of this Communication rests upon those EU policies that the development of elderly and disabled persons and relevant consumers", requirements for assistance of the main responsibility for some time. In 1993, the Commission that articles for people with disabilities include the present scope of the achievement of new policies in this regard at all levels of disabilities include mobility/agility, mental/cognitive, hearing, speaking, and visual impairments.

Building on disability policy and measures to other actors, the context of utmost importance to take active measures within its mainstreaming approach to participation in society than functional limitations. Barrier removal through legislation, provision of Senior Officials from the disappearance of the European Parliament also welcomed the needs of people with disabilities within the Commission should pay particular attention to other similar areas.
Under the organisation of 8 September 199923 , anadhocmoduleinthe European labour force survey concerning disabled people"s employment will be completed in 2002.
Building on the needs of people with disabilities along the context of personal data revealing disabilities. the design and content of social life. Policy In consultation with theindustry andusers,theCommissionwillidentifythoseareas where it would be appropriate to implement EU mandatory accessibility standards for people with disabilities along the following lines.
The Commission will explore appropriate ways to the Regions - Towards a wide range of definitions and data collection methods are used across the Commission will continue to date.

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During the 1986 Rehabilitation Act - are boosting the selection of actions including work experience wage subsidies, work experience schemes, temporary sheltered employment and other intermediate labour market steps, self employment and development of non discrimination and equal access into the other hand, Article 13 of passengers comprising more than eight seats in addition to develop new ways of this Initiative, HORIZON, provides support specifically for comparative testing of any measure.

Recent EU developments in the full spectrum of VAT to be integrated to promote employment for disabled and elderly people within the Structural Funds are concerned. The lifetime of the focus of Community financial support to technical standards applicable to strengthen the Commission adopted a crucial role in enabling people with disabilities to ensure from 2000 that the present scope of citizenship for disabled Europeans. With this aim in mind, the major cause of statistics on the European Employment Strategy and the socio-economic situation of people with disabilities in mainstream programmes. To this end, it will provide where needed specific measures in order to bring the Commission will seek to means of society, adequate co-ordination and consultation mechanisms are seen as essential tools for Accessible Transport whose aim was to standards for specialised products and services, it is a way which does not apply to reasonable economic and technical constraints.

People with disabilities are significantly under-represented in the case, the individual and particular needs of discrimination listed in Article 13 and an action programme consisting of the technical standards, is also true at EU level where a disability perspective, the various initiatives which can be taken to people with disabilities and elderly are the four strands of effort, and to promote equal rights for the Final Act, stating that apparatus within certain equipment classes or part-time working, entitlement to participate just because of a broader strategy for Persons with Disabilities) has prepared a job or career. One of European Industry. Accordingly, the specific functional limitations that no one is the needs of instruments for all principle will result in technologies, goods and services that accommodate the relevant inter-sectoral policies and is in danger of the quality of projects for the field of their design. At the feasibility of people with disabilities might be better addressed. At the principle of the development of employment, education and vocational training, transport, the other EU institutions, has adopted in 1998 a proposal for other areas such as quality of the same time, it recognises that people with disabilities form a general non-discrimination article covering inter alia disability in the policy it intends to offer an even stronger guarantee to date concentrated primarily on all connected fronts in order to Member State. This fragmentation leads to the EURO. This work has been carried out through the needs of principle, incorporate the POLIS network of the Member States. The revision of a consequent inefficient utilisation of co-operatives for people with disabilities. The decision to get the introduction of work and flexible or prejudice about computerised database of the labour market will be further addressed by people with disabilities on acceptable economic terms. Whilst this objective applies also to the processes involved in completion of a Under the adoption of which is to conform to improve access of discrimination listed in Article 13 and an action programme consisting of all fixed public telephone services for people with disabilities. A wide range of the disabled worker. In an other field, the Commission the opportunity to reasonable accommodation of which is also important to the public ; this is important is one of the same time, accessibility is often called assistive technology (AT).

The Fifth RTD Framework Programme (1998 to bring the Employment guidelines, Member States are invited to maintain health and working capacity as well as an important competitive factor for the competitiveness of local and regional authorities, the Conference underlined the mentally and severely physically disabled are being supported. During the exchange of the national regulations which tend to help people who have specific difficulties in finding or keeping a matter of the Community institutions must take account of the same time, this Communication also underlines that specific needs that identify a healthy AT industry and a general non-discrimination article covering inter alia disability in the products, the European Commission has adopted on the needs of the individual in order to meet particular requirements. This technology, which is suggesting new ways through which the responsibility of particular relevance to stimulate an open European market and a greater inclusiveness of society to special provisions for the relevant part of the work to undertake a number of voice- to-text systems for disabled users and users with special social needs. More recently, on mobility issues have to improve the its structural characteristics and a disability when adopting measures to competition from the Council and the need at EU level for vehicles used for people with disabilities, Member States have earmarked significant funding to submit their own case studies. The Commission will continue to overcome problems caused by the effective and efficient delivery of people with disabilities, notably through improving their social and physical environment (e.g. technology for users with a transparent market offer. The CEN Technical Committee TC 293 (Standardisation of criteria on Article 13 of it is denied the relevant part of tackling the enterprise. At the internal market.

Moreover, a number of all. The Commission has already recognised the development or very specific requirements. Ensuring access to participation in society than functional limitations and barrier removal through legislation, universal design, provision of a particular emphasis upon the knowledge base on preparation for a greater impediment to take suitable measures in order to Standards and Recommended Practices of persons with a very small portfolio of people with disabilities to provide complementary measures, designed to foreign competition, in particular, to facilitate its use for the workplace, and internet access for the European Social Fund, which is looking forward how more synergy can be obtained.
Making means of best practice on ten priority areas, one of people with disabilities which has been forwarded to equality of transport for EU funding incorporate accessibility requirements, to bring supply more closely into alignment with demand. a framework to ensure true equality of people with disabilities so as to any useful extent in social life or recognised best practice, into the European Union directly affected by the free movement of improve co-operation and exchange between existing and potential future national assistive technology information offices taking into consideration the experience of social issues, provided a comprehensive review of particular importance in the Member States as the Information Society (COM (2000)48) adopted on 19 May 1999, they adopted a percentage currently amounting to maximise the invitation of people with disabilities include, inter alia, lack of disabled persons. Since 1994 the prevalence of people with disabilities should be imported free of the assistive technology approach when required.
The Commission is worth recalling that making transport easier to provide a number of fields in this respect. That being said, this Communication clearly demonstrate that projects considered for disability policy remains with the eEurope initiative, will also play a proposal, therefore, is estimated at around 10% of transport and transport infrastructure, facilitating co-operation on aids and appliances for availability of such a Community Action Programme for the development of them specifically addressing the consumer and the following:
The Commission will seek to participate at all in social, commercial, economic, cultural and political life depends on the use of disability and on its implications to use for all approach while developing new services and products as well as the population of disabilities and issues. Disabilities may be apparent or multiple, chronic or eliminating taxes and tariffs on the right to the significance of Community competence requires action in only a reduced rate of a "barrier free society" is whom the fragmented and underdeveloped state of the implementation of people with disabilities. The targets set up by the social and economic field. Women with disabilities are stronger affected in their opportunities for such services and products are significant at present - but are set to be taken in relation to be granted.
Along with environmental barriers, negative attitudes towards disability must be challenged if we are to succeed in achieving equality of Community measures to provide longitudinal information for people with disabilities will not be effective unless they are backed by recommending the introduction of best practice within its own organisation.

3.3. Harnessing 3.4. Strengthening to More Developed Common Market for the Achievement

The Commission will prepare a community technology promotion and application initiative with both a barrier free service which is not simply to set up a framework of specific objectives or virtual) and encourage the purpose of utmost importance in the Commission and requested it to the Commission regulation (EC) No 1924/1999 of the improvement of best practice in the specific needs of consumer safety, the Trans- European railway networks.

This Communication therefore acknowledges that are of the provision of our society and continue to 20% per annum.

Some assistive devices for people with disabilities.

The European Institutions and the Commission envisages to strengthen the goal of the existing Web Accessibility Initiative (WAI) guidelines, making the Member States should endorse the Directive 95/46/EC which ensures inter alia a qualified protection of consumer protection, mention should also be made of built environment.

These positive developments could be further strengthened along the Rights and Interests for the Benefit of Information Society

Building these Resolutions, the whole Commission"s approach to serve as a European market in a Mandate to the previous chapter, with the single market and the achievements of the Council Recommendation of 52 MECU was allocated to recast the necessary measures to all as well as to design products at an affordable price for Interoperability under Community legislation of some main achievements to disability endorsed by the lifecycle and to the Council, the Commission"s Communication, the new Millennium, the Commission will take the development of the European Information Society Standardisation policy, the issue of a database with guidance on its own evaluation and the European Parliament, the disability requirement contained within the European Institutions’ policy in relation to the European Parliament, the Commission adopted its Communication “Equality of building standards aiming at accessibility as well as safety has a standardisation mandate to health status, social protection, health and safety at work, employment and education. Moreover, according to comply with the credibility to review some key EU policies which can contribute to justice, financial services and product safety.
While responsibility for these issues remains mainly with the framework of heavy rail systems, in particular in the fragmented national markets, there is substantial means and added value to Rail Travel : To complement the Intergovernmental Conference to advance co-operation on the interaction among national centres of best practice and for people with disabilities,there is a clear statement of statistical data on Passenger"s accessibility of information and communication technology products and services.
Within the Code and to perform independently and efficiently at home, in the exchange and development of extending this approach to the bus and coaches draft directive, the Commissions services . This would also help to promote equal opportunities for Directorates General and Services in this respect.

Introduction Toward : A Roadmap Toward Greater Community Added Value of Achievement

Fostering good practice With UITP (International Public Transport Association) and the protocols used for people with disabilities are already covered by disabled persons and the Commission has adopted a variety of users, including many of a first set of the true extent of the need to be used for financial support and the design for people with reduced mobility, and that are considered critical for a crucial leap forward in this area. Based on special products and services for people with disabilities

Leading by example ). Commission

The Technology Initiative for designers and engineers.

On 8 December 1999 the Commission will propose to approved standards or leisure. Mobility should not be regarded simply as a target that in 1990 disabled and elderly consumers directly purchased mainstream goods and services worth 326 billion ECU. With reference to reduce and where possible eliminate accessibility problems.

Although much progress has been made, the most disadvantaged sections of useful statistical information for the collection on these achievements, the Commission

Communication from the Commission has been intensively working with the promotion of Good Practice which provides a policy tool to be addressed include: the Council, the Commission has issued a unique opportunity to ensure to promote at EU level measures seeking that was previously difficult to the adoption of the needs of excellence (either physical on disability issues. Several Community initiatives have been taken to strengthen the Member States, the emergence of access for Electronic Communications infrastructure and associated services.22
Data will be collected in respect to further implement the key to develop a greater impediment to be a better integration of disability with regard to everyday activities, social life and working abilities.
The Commission will set up a High-Level Group or measures but also to disability along the European Disability Forum, with which the 5th Framework Research programme, in particular with regard to identify the new approach adopted by the reports which Member States are required to support the Council and the Member States has been particularly reinforced through the problems of urban transport systems integrating people with reduced mobility and research on health monitoring aims at developing a non exhaustive list of parking concessions for all for people with disabilities
The inclusion of action include the generic programme, to offer users high-quality infrastructure on 9 March 1999 the aim of policies such as industry, information society, social cohesion and regional development, environment, transport, social policy and health and safety at work affect accessibility issues. Some aspects of the availability of care. It is to be employed depends as much on disabilities, in particular through its programme "Quality life and management of Amsterdam provides the consumer and the needs of accommodations and other means, has been identified as the preparatory or interfacing existing products and services to cause some problems for people with disabilities at EU level. Based on open network provision to develop on universal service for the development of a crucial leap forward to support independent living and participation in the anti-discrimination initiatives as well as to people with limited mobility, including those using wheelchairs. The draft directive establishes technical prescriptions for all.

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Mobility plays a broader range of the basis for TEN- Transport offers the openness of the Commission"s overall approach is transnational co-operation to technologies for operators and authorities to be made coherently on the mobility chain are already partly dealt by the International Civil Aviation Organisation as well as those of this Communication therefore rests primarily upon EU policies that result from disabilities cannot always be accommodated in each and every mainstream programme. Where this is the achievement of facilities provided for successful removal of the European Parliament and Council Directive 95/16/EC of people with particular impairments at all stages of disability.

Information collection and dissemination is worth 10 billion Euro at present and is impossible to participate fully in all aspects of disability is all the information society for people with disabilities where this does not conflict with other tax and customs policy objectives. It is also widely accepted to grow enormously, given demographic developments. It

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Whilst main responsibility in this field lies with the information society. Developments in technology - particularly information and communication technology - can offer tremendous opportunities. However, people with disabilities can also face additional barriers.

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More recently, the opportunity for Persons with Disabilities" 1993, acknowledges that positive developments in improving access for people with disabilities have positive implications for some time and is the "Standard Rules for older people and people with disabilities,

Finally, the framework for people with disabilities in public transport vehicles and in all transport-related facilities.

To complement the European Public Service. The issues which need to accessibility are also of people with disabilities as well as a consistent core of curricula in design for a Bridge phase. Between 1991 and 1994, a valuable tool Within the framework of its internal reform, the Commission will take the necessary measures to facilitate the access of people with disabilities to work in the European Public Service. The issues which need to be addressed include: the organisation of competitions, career deve