4 Amendments of Brando BENIFEI related to 2021/0045(COD)
Amendment 38 #
Proposal for a regulation
Recital 19
Recital 19
(19) The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UN CRPD) requires its parties to take appropriate measures to ensure that persons with disabilities have access, on an equal basis with others, to information and communications technologies and systems. Directive (EU) 2018/1972 aims to ensure the provision throughout the Union of good quality, affordable, publicly available services through effective competition and choice, to deal with circumstances in which the needs of end-users, including those with disabilities in order to access the services on an equal basis with others, are not satisfactorily met by the market and to lay down the necessary end-user rights. In accordance with Article 109 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, all end-users should have access to emergency services, free of charge, through emergency communications to the most appropriate public safety answering point (PSAP). Member States are also required to ensure that access for end-users with disabilities to emergency services is available through emergency communications and is equivalent to that enjoyed by other end- users. Consequently, emergency communications are a means of communication that includes not only voice communications services, but also SMS, messaging, video or other types of communications, for example real time text, total conversation and relay services. It is for the Member States to determine the type of emergency communications that are technically feasible to ensure roaming customers access to emergency services. In order to ensure that roaming customers have access to emergency communications under the conditions laid down in Article 109 of Directive (EU) 2018/1972, visited network operators should inform the roaming provider through the wholesale roaming agreement about what type of emergency communications are mandated under national measures in the visited Member State. In addition, wholesale roaming agreements should include information on the technical parameters for ensuring access to emergency services, including for roaming customers with disabilities, as well as for ensuring the transmission of caller location information, including handset-derived information, to the most appropriate PSAP in the visited Member State. Such information should allow the roaming provider to identify and provide the emergency communication and the transmission of caller location free of charge.
Amendment 111 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 18 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. National regulatory authorities shall ensure that roaming all information referred to in Articles 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, and 18 which is provided to customers, is accessible for persons with disabilities in accordance with requirements of Directive (EU) 2019/882 (European Accessibility Act), the information does not exceed a level of complexity superior to level B1 (intermediate) of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, as well as is provided in easy-to-read format.
Amendment 113 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 18 – paragraph 2
Article 18 – paragraph 2
2. National regulatory authorities and, where relevant, BEREC shall make up-to- date information on the application of this Regulation, in particular Articles 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, and 12,12, 13, and 18 (1 a) publicly available in a manner that enablesaccessible to interested parties to have easy access to it, including to persons with disabilities.
Amendment 124 #
Proposal for a regulation
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point k a (new)
Article 21 – paragraph 1 – subparagraph 2 – point k a (new)
(ka) effectiveness of this Regulation on ensuring equal access to electronic communications by persons with disabilities when travelling within EU/EEA.