10 Amendments of Biljana BORZAN related to 2015/0278(COD)
Amendment 182 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 16
Recital 16
(16) Products and services falling within the scope of this Directive are the result of a screening exercise, carried out during the preparation of the Impact Assessment that identified those relevant products and services for persons with functional limitations, includingolder persons and persons with disabilities and older persons, for which Member States have adopted or are likely to adopt diverging national accessibility requirements.
Amendment 189 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 18
Recital 18
(18) It is necessary to introduce the accessibility requirements which enable all people to fully use the products and services and infrastructure, including the built environment, covered by this Directive in the 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 202 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 23
Recital 23
(23) In some situations,Without common accessibility requirements of the built environment would facilitate the free movement of the related services and ofconnected to products and services, any accessibility standards of goods and services cannot be effective in ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities. . Therefore, this Directive enablesshould oblige Member States to include the built environment used in the provision of the products and services under the scope of this Directive, ensuring compliance with the accessibility requirements set in Annex X.
Amendment 232 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 40
Recital 40
(40) In the absence of harmonised standards and where needed for market harmonisation purposes, the Commission should be able adopt or to specify needs of persons with functional limitations and persons with disabilities, the Commission should be able adopt, in cooperation with organisations representing persons with disabilities, implementing acts establishing common technical specifications for the accessibility requirements set in this Directive.
Amendment 243 #
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, the manufacturer declares that the product is in conformity with all applicable accessibility requirements and that he takes full responsibility therefor. The manufacturer should add a clear reference to accessibility next to the CE marking in order to better inform consumers.
Amendment 250 #
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 which 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 and the relevant economic operators, to act at an earlier stage in respect of such products.
Amendment 497 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 12 – paragraph 6 b (new)
Article 12 – paragraph 6 b (new)
6b. Member States are encouraged to provide incentives and guidelines to microenterprises and SMEs to facilitate the implementation of this Directive. The procedures and guidelines shall be developed in consultation with relevant stakeholders, including organisations representing persons with disabilities.
Amendment 499 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
Article 14 – paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Relevant stakeholders, including organisations representing persons with disabilities, shall be consulted systematically as part of the procedure for the adoption of implementing acts.
Amendment 555 #
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.
Amendment 561 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 26 – paragraph 2
Article 26 – paragraph 2
2. The penalties provided for shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive enough to not constitute an alternative for the economic operators from not conforming their products or services to the accessibility requirements laid down in this Directive.