11 Amendments of Rosa ESTARÀS FERRAGUT related to 2012/0340(COD)
Amendment 89 #
Proposal for a directive
Recital 24 a (new)
Recital 24 a (new)
(24a) The methodology used to monitor the compliance of the websites concerned with the requirements for web- accessibility on a continuous basis should be issued not later than one year after the adoption of this Directive.
Amendment 127 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
(8a) 'Web-accessibility' means principles and techniques to be observed when constructing websites concerned in order to render the content and functionalities of those websites accessible to all users, including people with disabilities. Web- accessibility refers in particular to principles and techniques that enhance users' perception, navigation, operation, interaction and understanding, and allows the use of assistive technology or augmentative and alternative communication.
Amendment 130 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
Article 2 – paragraph 1 – point 8 a (new)
(8a) 'Assistive technology' means any item, piece of equipment, or product system, acquired as such, or modified, or customised, and used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of persons with disabilities.
Amendment 166 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6 a (new)
Article 6a Enforcement body and its tasks 1. Each Member State shall establish or nominate one authority responsible for the enforcement of this Directive and competent to monitor the compliance of websites with the general accessibility requirements set in Article 3 and arrange for such authorities to have and use the necessary human and financial resources and powers to take the appropriate measures incumbent upon them under this Directive. These competent authorities shall involve organizations representing persons with disabilities. 2. Each Member State shall define the tasks, powers, organization and cooperation arrangements of the competent authorities, in accordance with Article 7, including the possibility for non-governmental organizations and consumer associations representing persons with disabilities to lodge a complaint with these latter in order to challenge any breach of obligation imposed to Member States by this Directive. 3. Member States shall keep the Commission informed about their implementing measures related to paragraph 2, and the Commission shall pass on such information to the other Member States. 4. The enforcement body shall report about the implementation measures related to Article 2 to its national competent authority.
Amendment 170 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 6 b (new)
Article 6 b (new)
Article 6b Implementing and enforcement measures For the purposes of this Directive, and in particular of Article 1(2) thereof, the competent authorities of the Member States shall be entitled to take, inter alia, the measures listed below, where appropriate: (a) for any website: (i) follow up on a complaint for inaccessibility of a website in a reasonable timeframe (ii) act as a resource centre for public bodies and authorities (iii) train civil servants and staff of public bodies and authorities to accessibility of websites and of web-based services. (iiii) give recommendations to implement this Directive (b) for any websites that fails to provide full accessibility: (i) where the failure to provide full accessibility is compatible with this Directive, to require that it be marked with suitable, clearly worded and easily comprehensible warnings, in the official languages of the Member States in which the website is used, on the barriers to accessibility it may represent.
Amendment 175 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
Article 7 – paragraph 1 a (new)
1a. The Commission shall establish a working group consisting of representatives of the Commission and representatives appointed by the Member States to meet annually in order to discuss about the results of the monitoring and exchange best practices regarding the implementation of this Directive. This working group shall actively involve relevant stakeholders, including persons with disabilities and their representative organisations.
Amendment 178 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 7 – paragraph 4
Article 7 – paragraph 4
4. The Commission establishes, by way of implementing acts, the methodology for the monitoring of the conformity of the websites concerned with the requirements for web-accessibility as set out in Article 3. That methodology shall be transparent, transferable, comparable and reproducible and it shall be established in close consultation with relevant industry and civil society stakeholders, including, in particular, representative organisations of persons with disabilities. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 9(3). The methodology will be published in the Official Journal of the European Union. no later than a year after the adoption of this Directive.
Amendment 195 #
Proposal for a directive
Article 10 – paragraph 1a (new)
Article 10 – paragraph 1a (new)
1a. Member States shall apply the measures referred to in Article 3(1) in accordance with their administrative, institutional and legal framework to every new website belonging to the public sector once this Directive enters into force, as well as to all websites: (a) belonging to public sector bodies' at national and federal level by 31 December 2015, (b) belonging to public sector bodies' at regional level or addressing urban centres over 100.000 citizens by 31 December 2016, (c) belonging to public sector bodies at local level by 31 December 2017 (d) operated by entities providing services of general interest to the public by 31 December 2017, the types of which are specified in the Annex.
Amendment 204 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex – point 6 a (new)
Annex – point 6 a (new)
(6a) Primary, secondary, higher and lifelong education, as well as extracurricular courses or activities offered by public institutions.
Amendment 211 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex – point 11 a (new)
Annex – point 11 a (new)
(11a) Tourist offices' information services
Amendment 217 #
Proposal for a directive
Annex – point 12 a (new)
Annex – point 12 a (new)
(12a) Cultural and scientific entities' websites