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Establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities
Document EMPL-AM-756042 · COM(2023)0512 – C9-0328/2023 – 2023/0311(COD)
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| Text proposed by the Commission | Amendment |
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| Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities (Text with EEA relevance) | Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons (Text with EEA relevance) |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities (Text with EEA relevance) | Proposal for a DIRECTIVE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL establishing the European Disability Card and the European Road Transport Card for persons with disabilities (Text with EEA relevance) |
| (This amendment applies throughout the text) |
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| (1) The European Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, and respect of human rights and committed to combating discrimination, including on the grounds of disability, as set out in the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) and the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’). | (1) The European Union is founded on the values of human dignity, freedom, and respect of human rights and committed to combating discrimination, including on the grounds of disability, as set out in the Treaty on European Union (TEU), the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (the ‘Charter’) and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD). |
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| (2 a) An exemption shall be added to Art. 2.2 to allow for temporary recognition of ones’ disability status for the transition phase when moving abroad for work or studies, and while one is undergoing the reassessment procedure to have ones’ disability recognized by the new Member State. This exemption shall also apply to participants in EU Mobility Programmes, such as ERASMUS+ for example. |
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| (2 a) In Article 25 of the Charter, the Union recognises and respects the right of older persons to lead a dignified and independent life and to participate in social and cultural life. |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| (2 b) In order to strengthen the proposal on the Parking Card and to make some concrete improvements for persons with disabilities, a new database shall be set up to inform persons with disabilities of the different parking rights and rules concerning disabled parking spaces in the different Member States and its regions, cities, and municipalities. |
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| (3) Every citizen of the Union has the fundamental right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, subject to the limitations and conditions laid down in the Treaties and by the measures adopted to give effect to them. | (3) Every citizen of the Union has the fundamental right to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States, subject to the limitations and conditions laid down in the Treaties and by the measures adopted to give effect to them. Article 18 of the UNCRPD also recognises the rights of persons with disabilities to liberty of movement and to freedom to choose their residence, on an equal basis with others. |
Abir Al-Sahlani, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (4) According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, citizenship of the Union is destined to be the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States when exercising the right to move and reside within the territory of the Member States, enabling those who find themselves in the same situation to enjoy, within the scope ratione materiae of the TFEU, the same treatment in law irrespective of their nationality, subject to such exceptions as are expressly provided for. | (4) According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, citizenship of the Union is destined to be the fundamental status of nationals of the Member States when exercising the right to move and reside within the territory of the Member States, enabling those who find themselves in the same situation to enjoy, within the scope ratione materiae of the TFEU, the same treatment in law irrespective of their nationality, subject to such exceptions as are expressly provided for. The right to free movement should also apply to third country nationals who have legal residence in a Member State of the European Union and a recognised disability in that Member State, in the interest of equal treatment. Therefore, this Directive is to be complemented by a separate legal act which will bridge the legal gap between EU citizens and legally residing third country nationals in this regard. This will provide for more legal certainty not least for third country nationals women and girls with disabilities who have legal residence in the European Union. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (5) The Union is a Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)39 , and is bound by its provisions which are an integral part of the Union legal order to the extent of its competences. All the Member States are Parties to the UNCRPD and are bound by it also to the extent of their competences. | (5) The Union is a Party to the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD)39 , and is bound by its provisions which are an integral part of the Union legal order to the extent of its competences. All the Member States are Parties to the UNCRPD and are bound by it also to the extent of their competences. While the Union and all its Member States are bound by the UNCRPD there are significant differences in its implementation3a. There is a need to progress on equality for persons with disabilities both for the Union itself as well as in all Member States, for example through investments in infrastruture, capacity buidiling, training and awareness raising campaigns. The Union and all Member States should further ratify the Optional Protocol of the UNCRPD. |
| 3a https://fra.europa.eu/en/publication/2023/implementing-un-convention-rights-persons-disabilities-human-rights-indicators | |
| 39 Council Decision 2010/48/EC of 26 November 2009 concerning the conclusion, by the European Community, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, OJ L 23, 27.1.2010, p. 35. | 39 Council Decision 2010/48/EC of 26 November 2009 concerning the conclusion, by the European Community, of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, OJ L 23, 27.1.2010, p. 35. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Alicia Homs Ginel, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility to persons with disabilities. | (6) The UNCRPD recognises that persons with disabilities include those who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various administrative, technological and societal barriers can result in discriminatory treatment. The purpose of the UNCRPD is therefore to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, individual autonomy including the freedom to make one’s own choices, and independence of persons, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of respect for difference and acceptance of persons with disabilities as part of human diversity and humanity and the need to take appropriate measures to ensure full and equal accessibility to persons with disabilities. |
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| (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility to persons with disabilities. | (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure universal accessibility to persons with disabilities and to ensure that persons with disabilities enjoy personal mobility with the greatest possible independence. |
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| (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility to persons with disabilities. | (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society and all aspects of life on an equal basis with persons without disabilities. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility to persons with disabilities. |
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| (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure accessibility to persons with disabilities. | (6) The purpose of the UNCRPD is to promote, protect and ensure the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities, and to promote respect of their inherent dignity, thus ensuring their full and effective participation and inclusion in society on an equal basis with others. The UNCRPD also recognises the importance of the need to take appropriate measures to ensure equality of opportunity and universal accessibility for persons with disabilities. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (6 a) The UNCRPD further recognises the difficult conditions faced by persons with disabilities who are subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination on the basis of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national, ethnic, indigenous or social origin, property, birth, age or other status. It particular, it recognises that women and girls with disabilities are at greater risk and subject to multiple discrimination, and that State Parties should take adequate measures to ensure their full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (7) The European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission at Gothenburg on 17 November 201740 provides that everyone, inter alia regardless of disability, has the right to equal treatment and opportunities regarding, among others, access to goods and services available to the public (principle 3). In addition, the European Pillar of Social Rights recognises that persons with disabilities have the right to services that enable them to participate in society (principle 17). | (7) The European Pillar of Social Rights, proclaimed by the European Parliament, the Council and the European Commission at Gothenburg on 17 November 20174 provides that everyone, inter alia regardless of disability, has the right to equal treatment and opportunities regarding employment, social protection, education, and access to goods and services available to the public and that equal opportunities of under-represented groups are to be fostered (principle 3). In addition, the European Pillar of Social Rights recognises that persons with disabilities have the right to live in dignity and to income support that ensures a decent living, services that enable them to participate in society and a work environment adapted to their requirements (principle 17). |
| 40 Interinstitutional Proclamation on the European Pillar of Social Rights, OJ C 428, 13.12.2017, p. 10. |
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| (7 a) The UNCRPD recognises that women and girls with disabilities are subject to multiple discrimination, and that State Parties should take measures to ensure their full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms. The Convention on Preventing and Combating Violence against Women and Domestic Violence, to which the European Union is a party, shall also guide the establishment of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| (7 a) The equality and non-discrimination mandate contained in Article 5 of the CRPD is relevant, as the European Disability Card is meant to accelerate the equality of persons with disabilities through global recognition within the EU, in its member countries and among themselves. |
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| (8) Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and the Council41 (the ‘European Accessibility Act’) aims to improve access to products and services by eliminating and preventing barriers arising from divergent accessibility requirements in the Member States, thus contributing to increasing the availability of accessible products and services in the internal market, including access to websites and mobile device based service of certain public services42 , and improve the accessibility of relevant information. In addition, Union law also guarantees the right to non-discrimination in access to transport and other rights such as the right to receive assistance free of charge for passengers with disabilities and reduced mobility travelling by air43 , rail44 , waterborne means of transport45 , or bus and coach46 . Union law also enables the Member States to provide for reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels as well as exemptions from the obligation to pay such fees or user charges for or any vehicle used or owned by persons with disabilities as concerns the roads subject to road charging47 . | (8) Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and the Council41 (the ‘European Accessibility Act’) aims to overcome obstacles for persons with disabilities and persons with physical impairments and to improve access to products and services by eliminating and preventing barriers arising from divergent accessibility requirements in the Member States, thus contributing to increasing the availability of accessible products and services in the internal market, including access to websites and mobile device based service of certain public services42 , and improve the accessibility of relevant information. In addition, Union law also guarantees the right to non-discrimination in access to transport and other rights such as the right to receive assistance free of charge for passengers with disabilities and reduced mobility travelling by air43 , rail44 , waterborne means of transport45 , or bus and coach46 . Union law also enables the Member States to provide for reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels as well as exemptions from the obligation to pay such fees or user charges for or any vehicle used or owned by persons with disabilities as concerns the roads subject to road charging47 . |
| 41 Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services, (OJ L 150, 7.6.2019, p. 70). | 41 Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services, (OJ L 150, 7.6.2019, p. 70). |
| 42 In addition, Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, aims to improve the accessibility of public sector bodies websites and their mobile apps. | 42 In addition, Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies, aims to improve the accessibility of public sector bodies websites and their mobile apps. |
| 43 Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air, OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 1. | 43 Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 5 July 2006 concerning the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by air, OJ L 204, 26.7.2006, p. 1. |
| 44 Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations OJ L 172, 17.5.2021, p. 1. | 44 Regulation (EU) 2021/782 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2021 on rail passengers’ rights and obligations OJ L 172, 17.5.2021, p. 1. |
| 45 Regulation (EU) No 1177/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 concerning the rights of passengers when travelling by sea and inland waterway and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004, OJ L 334, 17.12.2010, p. 1. | 45 Regulation (EU) No 1177/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 concerning the rights of passengers when travelling by sea and inland waterway and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004, OJ L 334, 17.12.2010, p. 1. |
| 46 Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 1). | 46 Regulation (EU) No 181/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 concerning the rights of passengers in bus and coach transport and amending Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 1). |
| 47 European Parliament and Council, Directive (EU 1999/62/EC and European Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2022/362 amending Directives 1999/62/EC, 1999/37/EC and (EU) 2019/520, as regards the charging of vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures. | 47 European Parliament and Council, Directive (EU 1999/62/EC and European Parliament and Council Directive (EU) 2022/362 amending Directives 1999/62/EC, 1999/37/EC and (EU) 2019/520, as regards the charging of vehicles for the use of certain infrastructures. |
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| (8 a) CRPD states in Article 18, dedicated to Liberty of movement and nationality, that States Parties shall recognize the rights of persons with disabilities to liberty of movement, to freedom to choose their residence and to a nationality, on an equal basis with others, including by ensuring that persons with disabilities are not deprived, on the basis of disability, of their ability to obtain, possess and utilize documentation of their nationality or other documentation of identification, or to utilize relevant processes such as immigration proceedings, that may be needed to facilitate exercise of the right to liberty of movement. |
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| (9) Persons with disabilities may apply to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the recognition of disability status as this is a matter within their competence. Each Member State and its respective competent authorities have a disability assessment procedure which differs from Member State to Member State. Where the competent authorities recognise the disability status of an applicant, they issue a disability certificate, a disability card or other formal document recognising the applicant’s disability status. | (9) Persons with disabilities may apply to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the recognition of disability status as this is a matter within their competence. Each Member State and its respective competent authorities have a disability assessment procedure which differs from Member State to Member State. Where the competent authorities recognise the disability status of an applicant, they issue a disability certificate, a disability card or other formal document recognising the applicant’s disability status. Some Member States do not have a single national disability card and / or definition of a disability status, which may lead to recognition of different levels of disability. In those Member States, service needs or other criteria may be used - often in a different way in different sectors - when services or benefits are granted to persons with disabilities |
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| (9) Persons with disabilities may apply to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the recognition of disability status as this is a matter within their competence. Each Member State and its respective competent authorities have a disability assessment procedure which differs from Member State to Member State. Where the competent authorities recognise the disability status of an applicant, they issue a disability certificate, a disability card or other formal document recognising the applicant’s disability status. | (9) Persons with disabilities and older persons may apply to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the recognition of disability or elderly status as this is a matter within their competence. Each Member State and its respective competent authorities have a disability assessment procedure which differs from Member State to Member State. Where the competent authorities recognise the disability or elderly status of an applicant, they issue a disability certificate, a disability card, elderly card or other formal document recognising the applicant’s disability or elderly status. |
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| (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. | (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. The Social Model of Disability establishes that it is society which disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of impairments, by the way persons with disabilities are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society. Impairment is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment. Disability is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community due to physical and social barriers. Member States are encouraged to modify their nationally applied definitions to align with the Social Model of Disability and to design fair and transparent disability assessment procedures accordingly. |
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| (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. | (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. The definitions of disability and the criteria used to assess disability in the Member States are closely linked to the social security system in place in each country, which determines access to, for example, a protected labour market or benefits for persons with disabilities and their carers. |
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| (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. | (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability or elderly status between Member States, persons with disabilities and older persons may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. |
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| (10) Due to the lack of recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities may face specific difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. | (10) Due to the lack of mutual recognition of disability status between Member States, persons with disabilities frequently face difficulties when exercising their fundamental rights of free movement. |
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| (11) Persons with disabilities moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. | deleted |
The concept of a "long" or "longer" period appears undefined; it is more appropriate to maintain the validity of the two documents issued by the home country until " residence" is assumed in the host country (e.g., a young person with disabilities who attends Erasmus in another European country does not assume residence for that period, and it would not make sense to burden him/her with the request for documents from the host country even if for an extended period of several months.
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| (11) Persons with disabilities moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. | (11) Persons with disabilities moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. Nevertheless, persons with disabilities staying for a fixed period of time, that is longer than the considered short period of time, in the context of a mobility programme, should not need to have their disability status assessed in the new Member State. Those could be mobility projects for VET, school pupils, adult education, youth exchanges, youth workers, youth participation activities, Discover EU Inclusion action, projects for higher education students and staff, partnerships for cooperation. |
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| (11) Persons with disabilities moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. | (11) Persons with disabilities and older persons moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study, living or staying in other Member States for other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability or elderly status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card, elderly card, or any other formal document recognising their disability or elderly status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (11) Persons with disabilities moving for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, except where otherwise provided by law or agreed among Member States, may have their disability status assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State and may receive a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. | (11) In the cases where persons with disabilities move for longer periods to other Member States for employment, study or other purposes, the European Disability Card should serve as temporary recognition of their disability status until formal decision by the competent authorities in the other Member State, by means of a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in accordance with applicable rules of that Member State. |
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| (12) However, persons with recognised disability status travelling to or visiting for a short period of time a Member States other than the Member State in which they reside, may encounter significant difficulties, if their disability status is not recognised in the Member State they travel to or visit and if they do not hold a certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in the host Member State, in order to benefit from special conditions and/or preferential treatment offered there. | (12) However, persons with recognised disability status travelling to or visiting for a short period of time a Member States other than the Member State in which they reside, often encounter significant difficulties, if their disability status is not recognised in the Member State they travel to or visit and if they do not hold a certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in the host Member State, in order to benefit from special conditions and/or preferential treatment offered there. Persons with non-visible disabilities often face specific difficulties when being asked to prove their disability while travelling. |
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| (12) However, persons with recognised disability status travelling to or visiting for a short period of time a Member States other than the Member State in which they reside, may encounter significant difficulties, if their disability status is not recognised in the Member State they travel to or visit and if they do not hold a certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in the host Member State, in order to benefit from special conditions and/or preferential treatment offered there. | (12) However, persons with recognised disability status and older persons travelling to or visiting for a short period of time a Member States other than the Member State in which they reside, may encounter significant difficulties, if their disability or elderly status is not recognised in the Member State they travel to or visit and if they do not hold a certificate, disability card, elderly card, or any other formal document recognising their disability or elderly status in the host Member State, in order to benefit from special conditions and/or preferential treatment offered there. |
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| (12 a) Being a woman is a factor that affects all dimensions, including mobility and free movement, and must therefore be considered so that this legislation contributes to recognising the rights of women and girls with disabilities, mothers and carers of persons with disabilities and protecting them from intersectional discrimination. |
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| (13) In this case, persons with disabilities travelling to or visiting another Member State are put at a disadvantage when exercising their free movement rights as compared to persons with disabilities holding a disability certificate, a disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in the Member State they travel to or visit. | (13) In this case, persons with disabilities and older persons travelling to or visiting another Member State are put at a disadvantage when exercising their free movement rights as compared to persons with disabilities and older persons holding a disability certificate, a disability card, elderly card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in the Member State they travel to or visit. |
Abir Al-Sahlani, Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Monica Semedo, Jordi Cañas, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (13 a) Impediments to the fundamental right of free movement is exacerbated for women and girls with disabilities who are confronted with intersectional discrimination in all areas of life, not least in education and employment. For example, 20 % of women with disabilities are in full-time employment, compared to 29% of men with disabilities and 48% of women without disabilities. 22% of women with disabilities are at risk of poverty, compared to 20% of men with disabilities and 16% of women without disabilities. 17% of women with disabilities graduate tertiary education, compared to 18% of men with disabilities and 32% of women without disabilities. 11% of women with disabilities have unmet needs for medical examination, compared to 10% of men with disabilities and 3% of women without disabilities.47a The difference is particularly noticeable in rural areas where access to services and opportunities in general is much more limited compared to urban areas. Therefore the European Disability Card must have a clearer gender equality perspective and contribute to improving the free movement especially for women and girls with disabilities, for example when they move to another Member State for work or study and are reassessed by the new Member State. It is crucial that the vulnerable situation for women and girls with disabilities is not exacerbated further but rather, that they are encouraged to exercise their freedom of movement and protected when they do in order to ensure their free movement and economic independence. | |
| 47a Intersecting inequalities in the European Union in the 2023 Gender Equality Index https://eige.europa.eu/gender-equality-index/2022/domain/intersecting-inequalities/disability/work |
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| (13 a) Persons with disabilities who also belong to other marginalized groups such as LGBTQI+, racialized groups and ethnic minorities, people from disadvantaged socio-economic background, young people and people from remote geographical areas... often face multiple discrimination therefore it is important that Member States apply an intersectional approach when transposing and implementing this directive. |
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| (13 a) The European Union has ratified the Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence, the Istanbul Convention. |
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| (14) Furthermore, not knowing whether and, if so, to what extent their disability status and formal documents recognising this status may be recognised when travelling to or visiting another Member State, creates uncertainty for them. Ultimately, persons with disabilities may be deterred from exercising their rights of free movement. | (14) Furthermore, not knowing whether and, if so, to what extent their disability status and formal documents recognising this status may be recognised when travelling to or visiting another Member State, creates uncertainty for them. Ultimately, persons with disabilities may be deterred from exercising their rights of free movement. An exemption shall be added to Art. 2.2 to allow for temporary recognition of ones’ disability status for the transition phase when moving abroad for work or studies, and while one is undergoing the reassessment procedure to have ones’ disability recognized by the new Member State. This exemption shall also apply to participants in EU Mobility Programmes, such as ERASMUS+ for example. |
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| (14) Furthermore, not knowing whether and, if so, to what extent their disability status and formal documents recognising this status may be recognised when travelling to or visiting another Member State, creates uncertainty for them. Ultimately, persons with disabilities may be deterred from exercising their rights of free movement. | (14) Furthermore, not knowing whether and, if so, to what extent their disability or elderly status and formal documents recognising this status may be recognised when travelling to or visiting another Member State, creates uncertainty for them. Ultimately, persons with disabilities and older persons may be deterred from exercising their rights of free movement. |
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| (14 a) In view of both demographic changes and the need to increase the mobility of persons with disabilities, Member States should increase measures aimed at improving the accessibility of public spaces and infrastructure and adjusting them to the needs of persons with disabilities. |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside visible and invisible barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel 48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities 49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. Similarly, lack of knowledge about physical, psychosocial, cognitive and sensory accessibility is a breeding ground for discriminatory behaviour. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside various visible and invisible barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . Furthermore, the widespread lack of knowledge of psychosocial, cognitive, physical or sensorial accessibility policies can pave the way to discriminatory behaviour. The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside various physical, intellectual and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces and services, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel12, because they have specific needs resulting in additional expenses related to their disability and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities13. The lack of recognition of disability status, in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and personal autonomy. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, or making use of assistance animals that must not endanger the life or health of others, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities and older persons from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities and older persons49 . The lack of recognition of disability or elderly status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces as well as services and activities, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of automatic recognition of disability status in other Member States often limits their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives, social and economic integration and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs and may also require person(s) accompanying or assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. | (15) Alongside physical and other barriers in accessing both public and private spaces, high expenses are a key factor discouraging many persons with disabilities from travel48 , because they have specific needs due to their disabilities and may also require person(s) assisting them including those recognised as personal assistant(s) in accordance with national legislation or practices, making their travel costs higher than for persons without disabilities49 . The lack of recognition of disability status in other Member States might limit their access to special conditions, such as free access or reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment and has an impact on their travel costs, lives and choices. |
| 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. | 48 Findings from Final Report based on Survey targeted at EU-level CSOs; Shaw and Coles, ‘Disability, holiday making and the tourism industry in the UK: a preliminary survey’, 25(3) Tourism Management (2004) 397-403; Eugénia Lima Devile and Andreia Antunes Moura (2021), Travel by People With Physical Disabilities: Constraints and Influences in the Decision-Making Process. |
| 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] | 49 McKercher and Darcy (2018), Re-conceptualizing barriers to travel by people with disabilities, Tourism Management Perspectives, 59-66. [More for Explanatory Memorandum?] |
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| (16) Preferential treatment (such as personal assistance, priority access, etc.) offered with or without remuneration may be important for persons with disabilities to be able to access various services, activities or facilities and to better experience them. However, due to the lack of recognition, in the Member State they visit or travel to, of their disability status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States, persons with disabilities may not be able to benefit from the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in that Member State to holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status issued there. | (16) Preferential treatment (such as personal assistance, priority access, etc.) offered with or without remuneration may be important for persons with disabilities and older persons to be able to access various services, activities or facilities and to better experience them. However, due to the lack of recognition, in the Member State they visit or travel to, of their disability or elderly status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States, persons with disabilities and older persons may not be able to benefit from the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in that Member State to holders of a disability certificate, disability card, elderly card or any other formal document recognising their disability status issued there. |
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| (16) Preferential treatment (such as personal assistance, priority access, etc.) offered with or without remuneration may be important for persons with disabilities to be able to access various services, activities or facilities and to better experience them. However, due to the lack of recognition, in the Member State they visit or travel to, of their disability status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States, persons with disabilities may not be able to benefit from the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in that Member State to holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status issued there. | (16) Preferential treatment (such as personal assistance, priority access, etc.) offered with or without remuneration may be important for persons with disabilities to be able to access various services, activities or facilities and to derive maximum benefit from them. However, due to the lack of recognition, in the Member State they visit or travel to, of their disability status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States, persons with disabilities may not be able to benefit from the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in that Member State to holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status issued there. |
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| (16 a) To this must be added the enormous lack of knowledge about psychosocial accessibility, which is why no individual and structural measures are taken to eliminate the barriers that hinder or impede it, including attitudinal, administrative and systemic or symbolic barriers, in order to help combat the stigma and prejudices that lead to discrimination, violence, abuse, social exclusion and segregation, which constitute obstacles to the effective exercise of the rights of persons with disabilities and do not favour respect for their autonomy, will and preferences. |
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| (17) The Pilot Project on the EU Disability card launched in 2016 and carried out in eight Member States, demonstrated the advantages for persons with disabilities in accessing services in the areas of culture, leisure, sport, and, in some cases, transport, and supporting their cross-border movement in the EU for a short period50 . In addition, it included other examples of services, activities and facilities which offer special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities. | (17) The Pilot Project on the EU Disability card launched in 2016 and carried out in eight Member States, demonstrated the advantages for persons with disabilities in accessing services in the areas of culture, leisure, sport, and, in some cases, transport, and supporting their cross-border movement in the EU for a short period as well as the fact that the card’s objectives continue to be relevant to the current needs of persons with disabilities 50 . In addition, it included other examples of services, activities and facilities which offer special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities. |
| 50 See also the Final Report of the Study assessing the implementation of the pilot action on the EU Disability Card and associated benefits, published in May 2021, https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4adbe538-0a02-11ec-b5d3-01aa75ed71a1/language-en. | 50 See also the Final Report of the Study assessing the implementation of the pilot action on the EU Disability Card and associated benefits, published in May 2021, https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/4adbe538-0a02-11ec-b5d3-01aa75ed71a1/language-en. |
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| (18) On the basis of their disability status, persons with disabilities may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. | (18) On the basis of their disability status, persons with disabilities may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. In order to strengthen the proposal on the Parking Card and to make some concrete improvements for persons with disabilities, a new database shall be set up to inform persons with disabilities of the different parking rights and rules concerning disabled parking spaces in the different Member States and its regions, cities, and municipalities. |
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| (18) On the basis of their disability status, persons with disabilities may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. | (18) On the basis of their disability or elderly status, persons with disabilities and older persons may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities and older persons which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities and older persons (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. |
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| (18) On the basis of their disability status, persons with disabilities may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. | (18) On the basis of their disability status in accordance with national law and practice, persons with disabilities may apply for a parking card to competent authorities in the Member State in which they reside for the issuance of a parking card for person with disabilities which recognises the right to certain parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. Each Member State has in place an application procedure, be it at local, regional or national level, to obtain a parking card for person with disabilities (or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s)) and criteria which must be fulfilled in order to be eligible. |
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| (19) Council Recommendation 98/376/EC51 has provided for a European model of a parking card for persons with disabilities, which has facilitated the recognition of the parking card across Member States. However, its implementation and the inclusion of national specific additions or deviations from the recommended model have led to a variety of different cards. This hinders the cross-border recognition of the cards across Member States, hampering the access of persons with disabilities to parking conditions provided and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities who are holders of a parking card in other Member States. Moreover, the Council Recommendation has not been updated to reflect ongoing technological and digitalisation developments. Member States also experience problems with fraud and forgery of the cards, as the format is usually quite simple and easily forged and in practice different in each Member States, which makes it difficult to verify. | (19) Council Recommendation 98/376/EC has provided for a European model of a parking card for persons with disabilities, which has facilitated the recognition of the parking card across Member States, However, its implementation and the inclusion of national specific additions or deviations from the recommended model have led to a variety of different cards. This hinders the cross-border recognition of the cards across Member States, hampering the access of persons with disabilities to parking conditions provided and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities who are holders of a parking card in other Member States. Moreover, the Council Recommendation has not been updated to reflect ongoing technological and digitalisation developments. Member States also experience problems with fraud and forgery of the cards, as the format is usually quite simple and easily forged and in practice different in each Member States, which makes it difficult to verify . Access to services should be instantaneous without requiring a new application in case of moving to another country. |
| 51 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 on a parking card for people with disabilities (OJ L 167, 12.6.1998, p. 25), as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. |
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| (19) Council Recommendation 98/376/EC51 has provided for a European model of a parking card for persons with disabilities, which has facilitated the recognition of the parking card across Member States. However, its implementation and the inclusion of national specific additions or deviations from the recommended model have led to a variety of different cards. This hinders the cross-border recognition of the cards across Member States, hampering the access of persons with disabilities to parking conditions provided and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities who are holders of a parking card in other Member States. Moreover, the Council Recommendation has not been updated to reflect ongoing technological and digitalisation developments. Member States also experience problems with fraud and forgery of the cards, as the format is usually quite simple and easily forged and in practice different in each Member States, which makes it difficult to verify. | (19) Council Recommendation 98/376/EC51 has provided for a European model of a parking card for persons with disabilities, which has facilitated the recognition of the parking card across Member States. However, its implementation and the inclusion of national specific additions or deviations from the recommended model have led to a variety of different cards. This hinders the cross-border recognition of the cards across Member States, hampering the access of persons with disabilities and older persons to parking conditions provided and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons who are holders of a parking card in other Member States. Moreover, the Council Recommendation has not been updated to reflect ongoing technological and digitalisation developments. Member States also experience problems with fraud and forgery of the cards, as the format is usually quite simple and easily forged and in practice different in each Member States, which makes it difficult to verify. |
| 51 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 on a parking card for people with disabilities (OJ L 167, 12.6.1998, p. 25), as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. | 51 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 on a parking card for people with disabilities (OJ L 167, 12.6.1998, p. 25), as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. |
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| (20) In order to facilitate the access by persons with disabilities to special conditions or preferential treatment related to services, activities and facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, in other Member States, remaining barriers and difficulties in travelling to or visiting another Member State due to the lack of recognition of their disability status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States and parking rights should be removed. | (20) In order to facilitate the access by persons with disabilities and older persons to special conditions or preferential treatment related to services, activities and facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, in other Member States, remaining barriers and difficulties in travelling to or visiting another Member State due to the lack of recognition of their disability or elderly status and of formal documents recognising this status issued in other Member States and parking rights should be removed. |
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| (21) Therefore, in view of facilitating the exercise by persons with disabilities when travelling to or visiting another Member State for a short period, of the rights to access special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities without discrimination on grounds of nationality on the same basis as persons with disabilities in that Member State, and in view of facilitating the use of transport and benefiting from parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities on the same basis as in that Member State, it is necessary to establish the framework, rules and common conditions, including a common standardised model, for a European Disability Card as proof of recognised disability status and for a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, as proof of their recognised right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. | (21) Therefore, in view of facilitating the exercise by persons with disabilities and older persons when travelling to or visiting another Member State for a short period, of the rights to access special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities without discrimination on grounds of nationality on the same basis as persons with disabilities and older persons in that Member State, and in view of facilitating the use of transport and benefiting from parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons on the same basis as in that Member State, it is necessary to establish the framework, rules and common conditions, including a common standardised model, for a European Disability and Elderly Card as proof of recognised disability or elderly status and for a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons, as proof of their recognised right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities issued by the competent authorities in the host country. | (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities or, where applicable, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities issued by the competent authorities in the host country. |
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| (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities issued by the competent authorities in the host country. | (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability or elderly status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons, on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability and eldery cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities and older persons issued by the competent authorities in the host country. |
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| (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities issued by the competent authorities in the host country. | (22) Mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should facilitate and guarantee persons with recognised disability status in a Member State, access to special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators or public authorities (including hospitals, health care institutions and emergency services) in a variety of services, activities and facilities, including when not provided for remuneration, as well as access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, on equal terms and conditions as those provided for on the basis of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status and parking cards for persons with disabilities issued by the competent authorities in the host country. |
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| (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains, such as culture, leisure, tourism, sports, public and private transport, education. | (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern the provision of accessibility and reasonable accommodation measures for a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains, such as culture, leisure, tourism, sports, public and private transport, education, employment and healthcare. |
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| (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains, such as culture, leisure, tourism, sports, public and private transport, education. | (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains. |
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| (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains, such as culture, leisure, tourism, sports, public and private transport, education. | (23) Beside parking conditions and facilities, the services, activities and facilities covered by this Directive concern a wide variety of ever-changing activities, including activities provided not for remuneration, by public authorities or private operators, either on a mandatory (on the basis of national/local rules or legal obligations) but often also on a voluntary basis (in particular by private operators) in a variety of policy domains, such as culture, leisure, tourism, sports, public and private transport. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. | (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals (particularly guide dogs or assistance dogs for persons with visual disabilities), assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals (particularly guide dogs or assistance dogs for persons with visual disabilities), personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. Persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities are designated by the persons with disabilities themselves or their legal guardian(s) and can change on an ad hoc basis provided there is explicit consent by the persons with disabilities or their legal guardian(s) depending on their needs. |
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| (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. | (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. With regard to the adoption of effective measures to ensure mobility, it is necessary to consider accessibility for people with disabilities in the different means of public transport (train, plane, etc.) and who need to use their own wheelchair due to the specialisation required to guarantee their safety. |
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| (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. | (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. Persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities are designated by the persons with disabilities themselves and can change on an ad hoc basis depending on their needs. |
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| (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities. | (24) Examples of special conditions or preferential treatment include free access, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels, priority access, designated seats in parks and other public areas, accessible seating in cultural or public events, personal assistance, assistance animals, assistance on the beach to enter the water, support (such as access to braille, audio guides, sign language interpretation), provisions of aids or assistance, loan of a wheelchair, loan of a floating wheelchair, obtaining tourist information in accessible formats, using a mobility scooter on roads or a wheelchair in bike lanes without a fine, etc. Parking conditions and facilities include extended parking or reserved parking spaces. With respect to passenger transport services, in addition to the special conditions or preferential treatment offered to persons with disabilities and older persons, in accordance with national legislation or practices, assistance animals, personal assistants or other persons accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities and older persons (or reduced mobility) may travel free of charge or be seated, where practicable next to the person with disabilities and older persons. |
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| (24 a) Personal assistants assist the person with disabilities or carry out activities of daily living if need be in the framework of a contractual relationship, and they do so with the objective of encouraging personal autonomy, facilitating community life and promoting independent living |
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| (25) The issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in a Member State is to be determined by this Directive together with that Member State’s applicable procedures and competences for the assessment and recognition of disability status and parking rights for persons with disabilities. | (25) The issuance of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons in a Member State is to be determined by this Directive together with that Member State’s applicable procedures and competences for the assessment and recognition of disability status and parking rights for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
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| (25) The issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in a Member State is to be determined by this Directive together with that Member State’s applicable procedures and competences for the assessment and recognition of disability status and parking rights for persons with disabilities. | (25) The issuance, renewal and withdrawal of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in a Member State is to be determined by this Directive together with that Member State’s applicable rules, procedures and competences for the assessment and recognition of disability status and parking rights for persons with disabilities. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (25 a) Experience shows that when presenting a European Disability Card or similar national recgnition of disability, due to a lack of awareness, misunderstandings or communication barriers persons with disabilities, particularly those with invisible disabilities, do not always receive the most relevant support and accomodation for their disability. Member States should therefore provide the option to persons with disabilities, when applying for the card to the relevant authorities, to choose to display relevant symbol(s) on the card in order to indicate their assistance requirements. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (25 a) The issuance and renewal of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should always be and remain free of charge. |
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| (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities should be given the option to use either the digital or physical one, or both. | (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of The Pilot Project on the EU Disability card as well as of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities should be duly informed about these possibilities and be given the option to use either the digital or physical one, or both. |
| 52 COM(2021) 281final | 52 COM(2021) 281final |
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| (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities should be given the option to use either the digital or physical one, or both. | (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities should be free to decide to use either the digital or physical one, or both on an equal basis and without discrimination. |
| 52 COM(2021) 281final | 52 COM(2021) 281final |
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| (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities should be given the option to use either the digital or physical one, or both. | (26) In addition to the physical format, Member States should provide for a digital card when format and specifications have been set via delegated and implementing acts, after proposal by the Commission. Such proposal should build on the experience of past and ongoing work at European level on digitalisation of certificates and documents, such as the EU Digital COVID Certificate set up under Regulation (EU) 2021/953 and enable the use of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card via EU Digital Identity Wallets52 . Persons with disabilities and older persons should be given the option to use either the digital or physical one, or both. |
| 52 COM(2021) 281final | 52 COM(2021) 281final |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (26 a) In order to strengthen the utility and impact of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, the Commission should establish a publicly available Union database, based on information provided and regularly updated by the Member States, in order to inform persons with disabilities of the different parking conditions and facilities offered for persons with disabilities in each Member State and its regions, cities, and municipalities. This Union database should be available in a public and fully accessible Union website dedicated to the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| (27) The issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities entails the processing of personal data, including in particular the data concerning the card holder’s disability status, which constitutes ‘data concerning health’ within the meaning of Article 4(15) of Regulation (EU) 2016/67953 and is a special category of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 of that Regulation. Any personal data processing in the context of this Directive should comply with applicable data protection legislation, in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679. When transposing this Directive, the Member States should ensure that the national legislation include appropriate safeguards applicable to the processing of personal data, in particular special categories of personal data. The Member States should also ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive | (27) The issuance of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons entails the processing of personal data, including in particular the data concerning the card holder’s disability or elderly status, which constitutes ‘data concerning health’ within the meaning of Article 4(15) of Regulation (EU) 2016/67953 and is a special category of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 of that Regulation. Any personal data processing in the context of this Directive should comply with applicable data protection legislation, in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679. When transposing this Directive, the Member States should ensure that the national legislation include appropriate safeguards applicable to the processing of personal data, in particular special categories of personal data. The Member States should also ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive |
| 53 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). | 53 Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) (OJ L 119, 4.5.2016, p. 1). |
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| (28) The Member State responsible for issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be the one where the person habitually resides within the meaning of Regulations (EC) Nos 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council54 and (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council55 and received the assessment of their disability status. Holders of a European Disability Card or European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be able to use the cards during their stay in any other Member State. | (28) The Member State responsible for issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be the one where the person habitually resides in accordance with national law and received the assessment of their disability status. Holders of a European Disability Card or European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be able to use the cards during their stay in any other Member State. |
| 54 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p. 1) | |
| 55 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1). |
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| (28) The Member State responsible for issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be the one where the person habitually resides within the meaning of Regulations (EC) Nos 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council54 and (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council55 and received the assessment of their disability status. Holders of a European Disability Card or European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should be able to use the cards during their stay in any other Member State. | (28) The Member State responsible for issuing the European Disability and Elderly Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons should be the one where the person habitually resides within the meaning of Regulations (EC) Nos 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council54 and (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council55 and received the assessment of their disability or elderly status. Holders of a European Disability and Elderly Card or European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons should be able to use the cards during their stay in any other Member State. |
| 54 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p. 1) | 54 Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 166, 30.4.2004, p. 1) |
| 55 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1). | 55 Regulation (EC) No 987/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 September 2009 laying down the procedure for implementing Regulation (EC) No 883/2004 on the coordination of social security systems (OJ L 284, 30.10.2009, p. 1). |
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| (28 a) It is imperative to take into account the gender-based violence to which European women and girls with disabilities are most exposed. This means that access to resources, mechanisms and benefits to combat and mitigate this scourge must be guaranteed throughout the EU, responding to the protection and support needs of women and girls with disabilities, mothers and carers who are victims of violence, abuse and mistreatment. |
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| (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes. | (29) In order to guarantee that workers and participants of EU mobility programmes with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, to the holders of national certificates, disability cards or other formal documents recognising disability status, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers and participants of EU mobility programmes who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related or educational purposes. |
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| (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes. | (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers with disabilities who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes in addition to study-related purposes when the duration of the stay does not exceed three months as foreseen in the Directive 2004/38/EC . |
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| (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes. | (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities and older persons can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons should also be available to workers who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities should also be available to workers who travel to or visit another Member State for work-related purposes. | (29) In order to guarantee that workers with disabilities can effectively exercise their rights to free movement fully and also enjoy services, activities and facilities offered by Member States, including when provided not for remuneration, the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities also applies to mobile workers, including frontier and cross-border workers with disabilities. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Alicia Homs Ginel, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council56 . | (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council20. Social security benefits, social protection and social assistance should be covered in certain time-limited instances, either when moving to another Member State for work or study or while being part of any Union or national initiatives and/or any mobility programmes, to allow for the temporary continued recognition of the disability status while the persons with disabilities are undergoing the reassessment process to have their disability status recognised by another Member State. |
| 56 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC, OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77. |
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| (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council56 . | (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). Nevertheless, in light of this Directive, Member States should improve national disability assessment and recognition frameworks, to ensure that all beneficiaries with a disability are eligible for the European Disability Card. It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council56 . |
| 56 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC, OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77. | 56 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC, OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77. |
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| (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council56 . | (30) The envisaged framework for mutual recognition of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons does not impinge on the competences of a Member State to assess and recognise the disability or elderly status and to grant special conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities, older persons, and/or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). It does not cover social security benefits, social protection or social assistance covered by Article 24(2) of Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council56 . |
| 56 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC, OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77. | 56 Directive 2004/38/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on the right of citizens of the Union and their family members to move and reside freely within the territory of the Member States amending Regulation (EEC) No 1612/68 and repealing Directives 64/221/EEC, 68/360/EEC, 72/194/EEC, 73/148/EEC, 75/34/EEC, 75/35/EEC, 90/364/EEC, 90/365/EEC and 93/96/EEC, OJ L 158, 30.4.2004, p. 77. |
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats (including easy to read formats and subtitled national sign language videos and international sign videos) for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities on an accessible online information platform respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. The Commission should set up a publicly available EU database to inform persons with disabilities of the different parking rights and rules concerning disabled parking spaces in the different Member States and its regions, cities, and municipalities. Such database should be available in all EU languages in comprehensive, user-friendly and accessible format (including easy to read formats and subtitled national sign language videos and international sign videos). |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available by Member States in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities, accessible formats, for persons with disabilities including in digital formats, national sign languages and easy-to-read, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities, respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available by Member States in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities , including in digital formats, national sign languages and easy to read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities, respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. |
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available on an EU digital Portal in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882 including by making all information available in the national sign langue(s). Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. |
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability and Elderly Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities and older persons respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities and older persons should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities and older persons respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. |
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| (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card and/or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. | (31) In order to raise awareness and facilitate access to special conditions or preferential treatment, while travelling to or visiting another Member State, all relevant information with respect to the conditions, rules, practices, and procedures applicable to obtain the European Disability Card for persons with disabilities and its subsequent use should be made publicly available including via dedicated EU-level website in all EU languages in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. Private operators or public authorities granting special conditions or preferential treatment to persons with disabilities should make such information publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly manner and accessible formats, for persons with disabilities respecting the relevant accessibility requirements for services established in Annex I to Directive (EU) 2019/882. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (31 a) In order to increase the number of service providers who offer special conditions or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities, Member States should support and encourage private operators and public authorities through relevant measures including through providing information and exchanges of best practice on the different types of special conditions or preferential treatment which could be offered as well as the provision of training on disability mainstreaming and disability awareness to ensure the special conditions or preferential treatment offered is done so in an inclusive and accessible way. For example such training could address the accessibility issues faced by persons with disabilities, requirements of persons with different disabilities concerning communication, respectful and safe management of equipment, use of assistive augmentative communication (AAC) and how to provide and publicise any offer of special conditions or preferential treatments in an accessibly visible way. Member States should ensure all such measures are carried out in partnership with persons with disabilities and their representative organisation to ensure they are inclusive and effectives. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (31 a) Member States should ensure that private operators or public authorities make information on any special conditions or preferential treatment publicly available in a clear, comprehensive, user-friendly and easily accessible way and in accessible formats. The Commission should establish a single dedicated website, available in all official languages, collating the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by their public authorities. Member States should facilitate information concerning the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators on the website where available and to update this information regularly according to any national legislation changes. |
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| (31 a) In order to strengthen the proposal on the European Parking Card and to make tangible improvements for persons with disabilities and person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), a new database shall be set up to inform persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) of the different parking rights and rules concerning disabled parking spaces in the different Member States and its regions, cities, and municipalities. |
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| (31 a) There is a need for the Commission to develop guidelines for common universally recognized pictograms for different types of assistance required by persons with disabilities. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards. | (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards. Member States should ensure that any measures taken to combat forgery or fraud ensure due regard and consideration to the rights of persons with disabilities and should not result in any interference with their legitimate interests in using either card or lead in any way to their stigmatisation. Member States should assess the impact of any measures on persons with disabilities and consult them and their representative organisations in the measures’ design and implementation. |
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| (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards. | (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards and exchange information on such cases. |
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| (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards. | (32) Member States should take all the necessary steps to avoid any risk of forgery or fraud when issuing the European Disability and Elderly Card or the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons and should actively combat fraudulent use and forgery of these cards. |
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| (33) In order to ensure the proper application of this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement the directive to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, and to amend Annexes I and Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud and ensure interoperability. | (33) In order to ensure the proper application of this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement the directive to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, and to amend Annexes I and Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud and ensure interoperability. The digital format is to be developed in the form of a certified attribute and integrated within national digital wallet projects aimed at flowing into the EUDI Wallet project. |
Some Member State is already pursuing the project of digitizing EDC and other identifying attributes through a special IO app feature, which is integrated into the IT Wallet and then into the European EUDI Wallet. This is an efficient and effective solution from the point of view of security, cost-effectiveness and ease of use.
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| (33) In order to ensure the proper application of this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement the directive to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, and to amend Annexes I and Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud and ensure interoperability. | (33) In order to ensure the proper application of this Directive, the power to adopt acts in accordance with Article 290 TFEU should be delegated to the Commission to supplement the directive to set the digital format of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons, and to amend Annexes I and Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud and ensure interoperability. |
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| (34) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Directive, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission with regards to establishing common technical specifications further specifying the respective formats of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, their respective security and digital features, as well as interoperability matters. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council57 . | (34) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Directive, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission with regards to establishing common technical specifications – consistent with the design of the EUDI Wallet - further specifying the respective formats of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, their respective security and digital features, as well as interoperability matters. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council57 . |
| 57 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). | 57 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). |
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| (34) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Directive, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission with regards to establishing common technical specifications further specifying the respective formats of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, their respective security and digital features, as well as interoperability matters. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council57 . | (34) In order to ensure uniform conditions for the implementation of this Directive, implementing powers should be conferred on the Commission with regards to establishing common technical specifications further specifying the respective formats of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons, their respective security and digital features, as well as interoperability matters. Those powers should be exercised in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council57 . |
| 57 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). | 57 Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 16 February 2011 laying down the rules and general principles concerning mechanisms for control by Member States of the Commission’s exercise of implementing powers (OJ L 55, 28.2.2011, p. 13). |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies or private associations, organisations or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities under national law. | (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies such as equality bodies or private associations, organisations in particular representative organisations of persons with disabilities or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities under national law. Persons with disabilities should further have a right to redress, including adequate compensation, in case of infringements of their rights arising from this Directive. Member States should ensure these provisions comply with the principle of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities in their design and implementation in line with the UNCRPD. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies or private associations, organisations or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities under national law. | (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies such as equality bodies or private associations, organisations in particular representative organisations of persons with disabilities or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities under national law. Persons with disabilities should further have a right to redress, including adequate compensation, in case of infringements of their rights arising from this Directive. Member States should ensure these provisions comply with the principle of reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities in their design and implementation. |
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| (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies or private associations, organisations or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities under national law. | (35) Member States should ensure that adequate and effective means exist to ensure compliance with this Directive and should therefore establish appropriate remedies, including checks on compliance and administrative and judicial procedures, to guarantee that persons with disabilities, older persons and person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as public bodies or private associations, organisations or other legal entities which have a legitimate interest may take action on behalf of a person with disabilities or on behalf of a older person under national law. |
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| (36) Member States should take appropriate measures and provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in the event of breaches or failure to comply with the obligations laid down in this Directive and that relates to the rights which are within its scope. Such penalties can include administrative and financial sanctions, such as fines or the payment of compensation, as well as other types of penalties. | (36) Member States should take appropriate measures and provide for effective, proportionate and dissuasive penalties in the event of breaches or failure to comply with the obligations laid down in this Directive and that relates to the rights which are within its scope. Such penalties can include administrative and financial sanctions, such as fines or the payment of compensation, as well as other types of penalties in line with national law and practice. |
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| (36 a) Member States should strive to curtail fraudulently obtained disability benefits to uphold mutual trust in national social protection arrangements across the Union, as the mutual recognition of disability entitlements is the cornerstone of the proper functioning of the European Disability Card. Instances of systemic fraud and corruption relating to disability benefits severely undermine such trust, have a detrimental effect on the ability to secure Union-wide social protection, and risk undermining the rights of those genuinely deserving of disability benefits. |
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| (36 a) With regard to the adoption of effective measures to ensure mobility, it is necessary to consider accessibility for persons with disabilities in the different means of public transport (train, plane, etc.) and who need to use their own wheelchair due to the specialisation required to guarantee their safety. |
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| (37) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter. Notably, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for the rights of persons with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community and to promote the application of Article 26 of the Charter. | (37) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter. Notably, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for the rights of persons with disabilities and older persons to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community and to promote the application of Article 26 of the Charter. |
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| (37) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter. Notably, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for the rights of persons with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community and to promote the application of Article 26 of the Charter. | (37) This Directive respects the fundamental rights and observes the principles recognised in particular by the Charter. Notably, this Directive seeks to ensure full respect for the rights of persons with disabilities to benefit from measures designed to ensure their independence, social, economic and occupational integration and participation in the life of the community and to promote the application of Article 26 of the Charter. |
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| (38) Since the objective of this Directive, namely to enhance the possibilities for persons with disabilities to travel to or visit another Member States, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the action establishing a framework with rules and common conditions, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective, | (38) Since the objective of this Directive, namely to enhance the possibilities for persons with disabilities and older persons to travel to or visit another Member States, cannot be sufficiently achieved by the Member States but can rather, by reason of the scale and effects of the action establishing a framework with rules and common conditions, be better achieved at Union level, the Union may adopt measures, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity as set out in Article 5 of the Treaty on European Union. In accordance with the principle of proportionality, as set out in that Article, this Directive does not go beyond what is necessary in order to achieve that objective, |
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| (38 a) An exemption shall be added to Art. 2.2 to allow for temporary recognition of disability status for participants of EU Mobility Programmes such as ERASMUS+. |
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| (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); | (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities or, where applicable, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s), in view of facilitating visits and short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are residents, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or, where applicable, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); |
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| (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); | (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons as proof respectively of a disability or elderly status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities and older persons in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities, older persons or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); | (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of promoting equal rights and freedom of movement for persons with disabilities and facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); |
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| (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); | (a) the rules governing the issuance and the effectiveness of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, access to limited traffic zones or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); |
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| (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s); | (a) the rules governing the issuance of the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities as proof respectively of a disability status or of a right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities, in view of facilitating short stays of persons with disabilities in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, by granting them access to any special conditions or preferential treatment with respect to services, activities or facilities, including when provided not for remuneration, or parking conditions and facilities offered to or reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) assisting them including their personal assistant(s); |
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| (a a) The conditions necessary to promote equality for persons with disabilities and to contribute to their free movement within the EU, without obstacles to free movement and with the individual supports that each person needs, projecting the EU's basic foundation, free mobility, to all persons with disabilities, who so far face severe disadvantages in this domain. |
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| (b) common templates for the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | (b) common templates for the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| 1. This Directive shall apply to parking conditions and facilities and to all situations where special conditions or preferential treatment are offered by private operators or public authorities to persons with disabilities as regards access to the following services, activities and facilities: | 1. This Directive shall apply to parking conditions and facilities and to all situations where special conditions or preferential treatment are offered by private operators or public authorities to persons with disabilities and older persons as regards access to the following services, activities and facilities: |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| – EU Mobility Programmes |
The aim is to allow the participation of young persons with disabilities in EU Mobility Programmes, in order to support learners to overcome the barriers to participate in mobility programmes. This proposal is a suggestion contained in the “EDF position paper on the European disability card 2022”.
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| – Limited Traffic Zones |
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| – education, youth exchanges and socio-educational exchanges within the meaning of Article 165 TFEU, |
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| – other activities and facilities, , including where not provided for remuneration. | – other activities and facilities, , including where not provided for remuneration, including hospitals, care institutions and emergency services. |
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| – Information and counselling services for women with disabilities, with special attention to women and girls who are victims of violence and abuse. |
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| – Protection services in humanitarian emergencies and risk situations. |
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| – Justice services, including free legal aid. |
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| – Recognition of the disability vis-à-vis institutions, authorities and policies promoted by all European Union bodies, in particular in EU mobility programmes (such as ERASMUS+ and other similar programmes). In the case of EU mobility programmes, the duration shall be extended to at least one school year. |
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| 1 a. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: | |
| a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State with to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system, or | |
| b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme. | |
| Unless the Member State that issued the card maintains its benefits during that period. |
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| 1 a. This Directive shall apply to all persons with disabilities participating in a mobility program within the EU that has a fixed period of time. In that case, the use of the Disability Card and the Parking Card shall be extended for the duration of the programme. |
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| The provisions of this paragraph do not apply in cases where people with disabilities move to work or study in another EU country. In this case, the Directive will ensure temporary access to the personal and financial benefits and assistive devices necessary for personal autonomy while the disability is reassessed in the new country of residence. |
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| 2 a. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: | |
| a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State with to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system, or | |
| b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 2 a. Paragraph 2 shall not apply in the following time-limited and momentary situations in order to ensure equal treatment and equal access between national and other Union citizens with disabilities: | |
| a) where European Disability Card holders move to another Member State to engage in an employment contract or enrol in an educational institution until such time as their disability status is re-assessed and formally recognised by the competent authorities in the other Member State or | |
| b) where a European Disability Card holder participates in any Union initiative and/or any mobility programme. |
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| 2 a. Without prejudice to the Article 2.2, temporary recognition of disability status shall be exceptionally allowed for the transitional period of time while: | |
| a) the person with disabilities is in the process of recognition of disability status after moving to the Member State different from the Member State of his/her residence for work-related or educational purposes; | |
| b) the person with disabilities participates at the EU mobility programme in a Member State different from the Member State of his/her residence. |
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| 2 a. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: | |
| a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State with to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system, or | |
| b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme. |
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| 2 a. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: | |
| (a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system; | |
| (b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme. |
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| 2 a. Exceptions to paragraph 2 shall be made by Member States to ensure equal treatment and opportunities between national and other Europeans with disabilities: | |
| a) when a European Disability Card holder moves to the Member State with to a work contract or enrolment in an education institution until their disability is re-assessed in the national system, or | |
| b) when a European Disability Card holder participates in an EU Mobility Programme. |
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| 2 a. In case of a negative result of reassessment, Member State may choose to recover the costs associated with the provision of the benefits in the area of social security from the beneficiary. |
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| 3. This Directive does not affect Member States’ competence to determine the conditions for assessing and recognising disability status, or for granting the right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. It does not affect Member States’ competence to issue in addition at national, regional or local level, a certificate, a disability card or any other formal document for persons with disabilities. | 3. This Directive does not affect Member States’ competence to determine the conditions for assessing and recognising disability or elderly status, or for granting the right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons. It does not affect Member States’ competence to issue in addition at national, regional or local level, a certificate, a disability card, elderly card, or any other formal document for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
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| 3. This Directive does not affect Member States’ competence to determine the conditions for assessing and recognising disability status, or for granting the right to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. It does not affect Member States’ competence to issue in addition at national, regional or local level, a certificate, a disability card or any other formal document for persons with disabilities. | 3. This Directive does not affect Member States’ competence to determine the conditions for assessing and recognising disability status, or for granting the right to parking conditions, access to limited traffic zones and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities. It does not affect Member States’ competence to issue in addition at national, regional or local level, a certificate, a disability card or any other formal document for persons with disabilities. |
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| 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s). | 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s) and guide dogs and assistance dogs. |
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| 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s). | 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s), guide dogs or assistance animals. |
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| 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s). | 4. This Directive does not impinge on national competences to grant or require to grant special benefits or specific, preferential conditions, such as free access, reduced tariffs, or preferential treatment for persons with disabilities, older persons, and, where provided, for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s). |
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| 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s), may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. | 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s) and guide dogs and assistance dogs, may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. |
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| 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s), may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. | 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities, person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s), or guide dogs and assistance animals may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. |
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| 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s), may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. | 5. This Directive shall be without prejudice to the rights that persons with disabilities, older persons, or person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including their personal assistant(s), may derive from other provisions of Union law or national law implementing Union law, including those granting specific benefits, special conditions, or preferential treatment. |
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| (a a) Discrimination on the basis of disability" means any distinction, exclusion or restriction on the basis of disability which has the purpose or effect of impairing or nullifying the recognition, enjoyment or exercise, on an equal basis, of all human rights and fundamental freedoms in the political, economic, social, cultural, civil or any other field. It includes all forms of discrimination, including denial of reasonable accommodation. |
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| (c) “persons with disabilities” means persons who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; | (c) “persons with disabilities” means persons who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others. The Social Model of Disability establishes that it is society who disables physically impaired people. Disability is something imposed on top of impairments, by the way disabled people are unnecessarily isolated and excluded from full participation in society. Impairment is the functional limitation within the individual caused by physical, mental or sensory impairment. Disability is the loss or limitation of opportunities to take part in the normal life of the community due to physical and social barriers; |
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| (c) “persons with disabilities” means persons who have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; | (c) “persons with disabilities” means persons who in line with national law and practice have long-term physical, mental, intellectual or sensory impairments which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; |
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| (c a) “older persons” means persons of older age, those aged 65 years or more, which in interaction with various barriers may hinder their full and effective participation in society on an equal basis with others; |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| (d) “personal assistant” is a person accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities who is recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such; | (d) “personal assistant” is a person accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities who is recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such; this person performs or assists in the daily living tasks of another person who is unable or in need of such assistance. Its aim is to promote independent living, foster personal autonomy and facilitate community living. The relationship between the two is contractual in nature and shall present a profile appropriate to the multiple tasks to be performed. |
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| (d) “personal assistant” is a person accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities who is recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such; | (d) “personal assistant” is a person accompanying or assisting persons with disabilities and older persons who is recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such; |
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices such as residence in the concerned Member State and/or eligibility to benefits, which require an additional individual assessment or decision on the need for specific services, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means any specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or any differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals, such as guide dogs or assistance dogs, recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or national practices of the host Member State as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and older persons and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), guide dogs or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
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| (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; | (e) “special conditions or preferential treatment” means specific conditions, including those related to financial conditions, or differentiated treatment related to assistance and support such as free access, reduced tariffs, priority access, offered to persons with disabilities and/or, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or assistance dogs or guide dogs recognised in accordance with the national legislation or practices as such, irrespective whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations; |
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| (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. | (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities or, where applicable, person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s) in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. |
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| (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. | (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities or person(s) accompanying or assisting them including their personal assistant(s) in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. |
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| (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. | (f) “parking conditions and facilities” means any parking space reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons in general as well as associated parking benefits for, or preferential conditions afforded to, persons with disabilities and older persons, such as free parking, reduced tariffs, reduced fees or user charges for toll roads/bridges/tunnels or extended parking spaces irrespective of whether provided on a voluntary basis or imposed by legal obligations. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| (f a) “Reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights, fundamental freedoms and the rights provided under this Directive; |
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| (f a) “reasonable accommodation” means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedoms; |
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| (f a) “Reasonable accomodation” means necessary and appropriate modification and adjustments not imposing a disproportionate or undue burden, where needed in a particular case, to ensure to persons with disabilities the enjoyment or exercise on an equal basis with others of all human rights and fundamental freedom. |
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| (f b) co-production is a relationship where professionals and citizens share power to design, plan and deliver support together, recognising that both partners have vital contributions to make in order to improve quality of life for people and communities. It entails several components: Co-design, including planning of services; Co-decision making in the allocation of resources; Co-delivery of services, including the role of volunteers in providing the services; Co-evaluation of the services; |
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| (f b) “EU mobility programme” means any programme that has a fixed period of time, and that is temporary, that takes place in another Member State that the state or residence, in the field of education, training, or for work related purposes. |
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| (f c) an organization representing disabled people has to have a membership consisting of disabled people in its entirety. The board and all governing body have to consist of disabled people. The Organisation has to prove that a strong effort is undertaken to fill remunerated positions, including senior positions, with adequately qualified disabled staff. |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens as well as, where applicable according to national rules, third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) and including sign language interpreter(s) as indicated by the letter “A” on their European Disability Card, or by assistance animals, |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens, as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union, whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens, as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and residents and family members of Union citizens and residents whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as guide dogs or assistance animals. |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and residents and family members of Union citizens and residents whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), as well as guide and assistance dogs, |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence, regardless of the disability's severity, by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
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| (a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), | (a) Union citizens whose disability status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
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| (a a) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose elderly status is recognised by the competent authorities in the Member State of their residence by means of a certificate, a card or any other formal document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures, as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), |
The specific inclusion of older persons in this Directive is necessary and justified, as about half of the persons with disabilities in the EU are aged above 65 years (48,5 %, source: Eurostat 2022). In addition, the number of persons with a disability is expected to increase, as the EU population is getting older.
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| (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). | (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens as well as, where applicable according to national rules, third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). |
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| (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). | (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens, as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a Member State of the European Union whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). |
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| (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). | (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens, as well as third country nationals that have permanent residence status in a member state of the European Union whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). |
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| (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). | (b) Union citizens and family members of Union citizens whose rights to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons are recognised in their Member State of residence by way of a parking card or another document issued in accordance with national competences, practices, and procedures as well as, when applicable, to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s). |
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| (b a) Any person with a factual disability, according to the meaning stated in Article 1 of the CRPD, when they reside and are displaced in an EU State other than their own, even if they do not have a disability status recognised by their Member State of residence. |
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| (b b) Persons with disabilities in a situation of international protection in an EU Member State. |
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| (b c) Citizens of the Union who have a medical certificate of diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder issued or validated by the health services supported by public funds. |
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| Equal access to special conditions or preferential treatment and to parking conditions and facilities for persons with disabilities | Equal access to special conditions or preferential treatment and to parking conditions and facilities for persons with disabilities and older persons |
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| 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Disability Card, while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1). | 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that , subject to verification of the validity of the European Disability Card only, the holders of the same holders of a European Disability Card, while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1). |
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| 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Disability Card, while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1). | 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Disability and Elderly Card, while travelling to, visiting, living in, working or studying in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities and older persons who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card, elderly card, or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1). |
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| 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Disability Card, while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1). | 1. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Disability Card, while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access on equal terms and conditions as those provided to persons with disabilities who are holders of a disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document recognising their disability status in that Member State, to any special conditions or preferential treatment offered with respect to the services, activities and facilities referred to in Article 2(1) and 2(2a). |
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| 1 a. Member States shall take all necessary measures to recognise all persons with disabilities who are holders of a European Disability Card as being specially protected against discrimination on the grounds of disability, with the consequent right of access throughout the EU to the remedies and mechanisms provided against breaches of rights and lack of effective equal treatment. |
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| 1 a. Member States shall take the necessary measures to recognise holders of a European Disability Card as persons protected against discrimination on the grounds of disability, and as such, as persons with the right to have access to the available resources and assistance in cases of rights violations and the absence of real and effective equal treatment. |
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| 2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities on equal terms and conditions as those provided for in that Member State to its holders of parking cards issued in that Member State. | 2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons while travelling to, visiting, living in, working or studying in a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities and older persons on equal terms and conditions as those provided for in that Member State to its holders of parking cards issued in that Member State. |
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| 2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access to parking conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities on equal terms and conditions as those provided for in that Member State to its holders of parking cards issued in that Member State. | 2. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that holders of a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities while travelling to or visiting a Member State other than that of which they are a resident, shall be granted access to limited traffic zones and to parking and the relevant specific conditions and facilities reserved for persons with disabilities on equal terms and conditions as those provided for in that Member State to its holders of parking cards issued in that Member State. |
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| (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals of the holder of a European Disability Card; | (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or guide dogs or assistance animals of the holder of a European Disability Card; |
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| (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals of the holder of a European Disability Card; | (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals of the holder of a European Disability and Elderly Card; |
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| (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or assistance animals of the holder of a European Disability Card; | (a) when special conditions or preferential treatment referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) or specific conditions for assistance animals, these favourable or specific conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) or guide and assistance dogs of the holder of a European Disability Card; |
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| (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | (b) parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article apply to person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s) |
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| (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | (b) when the conditions concerning the access to limited traffic zones and the use of parking facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, provided that the card holder is in the vehicle. |
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| (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | (b) when parking conditions and facilities referred to in paragraph 2 of this Article include favourable conditions for person(s) accompanying or assisting them including personal assistant(s), these favourable conditions are granted on equal terms and conditions to the person(s) accompanying or assisting them, including personal assistant(s) of the holder of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
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| 3 a. Service providers shall comply with the following obligations and measures: | |
| (a) Service providers are obliged to recognise holders of the European Disability Card as persons who are specially protected against discrimination on the grounds of disability by guaranteeing them the right of access throughout the EU to the remedies and mechanisms available to them against infringements of their rights. | |
| (b) Service providers shall ensure that they provide services in accordance with the accessibility requirements set out in this Directive. | |
| (c) Service providers shall produce the necessary information in accordance with Annex I and explain how their services comply with the applicable accessibility requirements. The information shall be made available to the public in a form that is universally accessible to all persons with disabilities. | |
| (d) In the event of non-compliance, service providers shall take the necessary corrective measures to bring the service into compliance with the applicable universal accessibility requirements. |
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| II EUROPEAN DISABILITY CARD AND EUROPEAN PARKING CARD FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES | II EUROPEAN DISABILITY AND ELDERLY CARD AND EUROPEAN PARKING CARD FOR PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES AND OLDER PERSONS |
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| Format, mutual recognition, issue and validity of the European Disability Card | Format, mutual recognition, issue and validity of the European Disability and Elderly Card |
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| 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. | 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. On the BACK SIDE of the card, Member States shall insert digital means that allow, in accordance with national regulations, limited within the national territory and for nationals of the country that issued the document only, the display of additional and more specific information related to the disability status of the card holder. This information, which is accessible by a computerized tool upon presentation of the BACK SIDE of the physical card bearing the aforementioned digital feature, must be the same as that shown on the digital format of the European disability card. Member states shall then insert on the BACK SIDE of the card the appropriate digital means to allow, in accordance with national regulations, to verify the validity of the card through digital infrastructure, functioning in all member states, the characteristics of which will be specified later by the Commission. |
All Member States should use a digital means (such as the QR code) to be affixed to the BACK SIDE of the card, which allows for immediate verification of additional information related to the disability condition. The possibility of consulting the QR code should be limited within the state issuing the EDC and only for citizens of that country, in order to limit problems with interconnections of national databases and personal data protection. Instead, the capability to use the QR code to check only the validity of the card should be a cross-border possibility for all Member States.
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. | 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format and the universal accessibility requirements set out in Annex I. Member States shall provide the option to persons with disabilities, when applying for the card to the relevant authorities, to display their required reasonable accommodation via the relevant symbols on the Card. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. |
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| 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. | 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability and Elderly Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability and Elderly Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability and Elderly Card in Annex I. |
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| 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. | 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Disability Card following the common standardised and universally accessible format set out in Annex I. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Disability Card, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex I, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex I. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. |
| Where a holder of a European Disability Card takes up residence in another Member State, that Member States may, unilaterally or based on bilateral agreements, decide to recognise the European Disability Card issued by another Member State, and automatically issue a new European Disability Card in accordance with national procedures, without further investigation. Annex (x) lists the Member States that mutually or unilaterally adopt each other's disability card without further investigation. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. Member States shall take measures necessary to ensure that presentation of the European Disability Card exempts the holder from presentation of other certification attesting the disability status. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States and before the UE institutions. The European Disability Card will be compatible with any national disability recognition card or certificate. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be issues and renewed for free, be mutually recognised in all Member States and be compatible with national certificates or cards. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability and Elderly Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. |
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| 2. European Disability Cards issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Disability Cards issued by one Member State shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. |
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| 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew or withdraw the European Disability Card in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European Disability Card shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. | 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew or withdraw the European Disability Card in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Such procedures shall be free of charge for the card holder. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European Disability Card shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. |
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| 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew or withdraw the European Disability Card in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European Disability Card shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. | 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew or withdraw the European Disability and Elderly Card in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, integrity, authenticity and confidentiality of the data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European Disability and Elderly Card shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability recognition, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed totally free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other Union legislation. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly where already provided for in the national disability assessment and recognition procedure, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed either 60 days or the period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities whichever is shorter. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence in compliance with the applicable national legislation and procedures either directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. Persons with disabilities should be duly informed about the possibility to apply for this card if it is not issued directly. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability recognition, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other Union legislation. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly if such is the procedure according to the national disability recognition, or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. The card shall never be required as a proof of disability in the context of rights established in other Union legislation. |
It should be voluntary to become a European Disability Card holder to avoid stigmatisation. It should never be an obligation to show the Card as proof of disability for services that are granted under other Union legislation, such as the right to assistance at airports under Regulation 1107/2006[1]. It also has to be free of charge so that cost would not be an additional barrier to apply for the Card.[1] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=celex%3A32006R1107, retrieved on 19 October 2023
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. In the event of a change of country of residence, the renewal period may be extended by 6 to 8 months. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. In case of a change in the country of residence, the card renewal period may be extended from 6 to 8 months. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within a reasonable period from the date of the application set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability and Elderly Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities and older persons. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards, elderly cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities and older persons. |
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities or a delegated person, according to national law. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. |
This proposal amendment is finalised to allow to person with disabilities to request the European Disability Card by a person of their own choice under national law, because there might be accessibility barriers making it impossible for them to do it.
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| 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. | 4. The European Disability Card shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence directly or upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued and renewed and provided free of charge for the beneficiary, within the same period set in the applicable national legislation for issuing disability certificates, disability cards or any other formal document recognising the disability status of a person with disabilities. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 4 a. Member States shall ensure that persons with disabilities, or designated representatives acting on their behalf and with their or their legal guardian(s)´ approval, may appeal a decision by the competent authorities regarding the issuance, renewal or withdrawal of a European Disability Card. |
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| 4 a. Member States shall take necessary measures to ensure that EU funding supports the European Disability Card’s production and implementation. |
There should be no cost burden on the Member state or person as barrier to producing and implementing the card
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| 4 a. Member States shall use the back of the card to display information on the kind of assistance that the card holder needs. |
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| 4 a. The costs of the European Disability and Elderly Card for card holders shall be equal in all Member States. |
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| 5. The European Disability Card shall be issued as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. | 5. The European Disability and Elderly Card shall be issued as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities and older persons shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. |
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| 5. The European Disability Card shall be issued as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. | 5. The European Disability Card shall be issued as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use, on equal footing, either the digital or physical card, or both. |
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| 5 a. The European Disability Card will be issued (first and subsequent issues) free of charge, at no cost to the person applying for it. |
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| 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. | 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. In case of a change in the country of residence, the card renewal period may be extended from 6 to 8 months. |
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| 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. | 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. In the event of a change of country of residence, the renewal period may be extended by 6 to 8 months. |
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| 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. | 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State is established by the individual Member State in compliance with current legislation. The cards issued up to the time of transposition of the Directive by the countries participating in the pilot project, in accordance with the applicable requirements and based on Council Recommendation 98/376 remain in force until their natural expiration. |
The changes are intended to reduce the reissuance costs for member states that have already started the issuance of cards during the pilot project.
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| 6. The validity of the European Disability Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. | 6. The validity of the European Disability and Elderly Card issued by a Member State shall be at least for the same duration as that of the disability certificate, disability card, elderly card or any other formal document with the longest duration recognising their disability status issued to the person concerned by the competent authority of the Member State in its territory. |
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| 6 a. Holders of the European Disability Card shall be able to access the necessary support for persons with disabilities during the transition period of moving to another country to study or work until their disability has been certified by their new country of residence. |
Currently disabled people relocating within Europe often face serious difficulties travelling and relocating. It is necessary to ensure access to disability specific benefits and services such as personal assistance, housing support or reasonable accommodations in education or at work.
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| 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability. | 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability. The digital format of the European Disability Card is to be developed in the form of a certified attribute and integrated within national digital wallet projects, aimed at flowing into the EUDI Wallet project. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability. | 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure accessibility and interoperability. |
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| 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability. | 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement this Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Disability and Elderly Card and ensure interoperability, and to amend Annex I in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, introduce digital features in order to prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability. |
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| (1) Universal accessibility shall be ensured throughout the process related to the format, mutual recognition, issuing and validity of the European Disability Card. |
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| (2) In the event that the same person with a disability holds both the European Disability Card and the Parking Card, flexible and simple formulas will be established that allow for the same material and/or digital support, in order to avoid unnecessary administrative burdens. |
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| 7 a. The Commission shall set up a publicly available database that contains relevant information related to the applicable parking rules, conditions, and spaces as defined on local, regional, or national level. The database shall be available in all EU languages. |
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| 7 b. Member States shall encourage public authorities to upload relevant information in the database. |
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| Format, mutual recognition, issue and validity of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities | Format, mutual recognition, issue and validity of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons |
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| 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities following the common standardised format set out in Annex II. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex II, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability Card in Annex II. | 1. Each Member State shall introduce the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons following the common standardised format set out in Annex II. Member States shall introduce digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention as part of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons, as soon as the requirements concerning the digital features referred to in Annex II, are laid down by the Commission in the technical specifications referred to in Article 8. The digital storage medium shall not contain more personal data than the data provided for the European Disability and Elderly Card in Annex II. |
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| 1 a. The Commission shall set up a publicly available database that contains relevant information related to the applicable parking rules, conditions, and spaces as defined on local, regional, or national level. The database shall be available in all EU languages. Member States shall encourage public authorities to upload relevant information in the database. |
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| 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States and during the transition period of moving from one country to another to study or to work. |
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| 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities and older persons issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. |
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| 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities issued by Member States shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. | 2. European Parking Cards for persons with disabilities issued by one Member State shall be mutually recognised in all Member States. |
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| 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew, or withdraw the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, authenticity and confidentiality of the personal data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. | 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew, or withdraw the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Such procedures shall be free of charge for the card holder. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, authenticity and confidentiality of the personal data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. |
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| 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew, or withdraw the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, authenticity and confidentiality of the personal data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. | 3. Competent authorities in the Member States shall issue, renew, or withdraw the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons in accordance with their national rules, procedures and practices. Without prejudice to Regulation (EU) 2016/679, Member States shall ensure the security, authenticity and confidentiality of the personal data collected and stored for the purpose of this Directive. The competent authority responsible for issuing the European parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons shall be considered as the controller referred to in Article 4(7) of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and shall have responsibility for the processing of personal data. Cooperation with external service providers shall not exclude any liability on the part of a Member State which may arise under Union or national law in respect of breaches of obligations with regard to personal data. |
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. The presentation of the application for renewal of the parking card within the period provided for in the applicable State regulations, extends the validity of the previously issued card until the resolution of the procedure. In the event that the application is submitted within ninety calendar days after the date on which the validity of the last card issued has expired, it will be understood that the validity of the card will continue to be valid until the resolution of the corresponding renewal procedure. |
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities or by a delegated person, according to national law. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. The validity of the Card is equal to the certification of the disability condition, disability cards or any other formal document that recognizes the disability status of a person with a disability. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. |
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed free of charge for the beneficiary and within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. |
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities or older persons. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. |
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| 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 60 days. | 4. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed by the Member State of residence upon application by the person with disabilities. It shall be issued or renewed within a reasonable period from the date of the application which shall not exceed 30 days. |
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| The words “European Parking Card” shall be displayed in braille using the Marburg code dimensions. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 4 a. Member States shall ensure that persons with disabilities, or designated representatives acting on their behalf and with their or their legal guardian(s)´ approval, may appeal a decision by the competent authorities regarding the issuance, renewal or withdrawal of a European Parking Card. |
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| 4 a. The costs of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons for card holders shall be equal in all Member States. |
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| 5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities replaces all existing valid parking cards, issued in accordance with the Council Recommendation on parking cards for persons with disabilities58 at national, regional or local level at the latest by dd/mm/yy [date of application of this Directive]. | 5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities replaces all existing valid parking cards, issued in accordance with the Council Recommendation on parking cards for persons with disabilities58 at national, regional or local level upon the request for its issuance, and in any case within 3 years from the date of application of this Directive. |
| 58 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 (98/376/EC) OJ L 167/25,12.6.1998 as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. | 58 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 (98/376/EC) OJ L 167/25,12.6.1998 as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. |
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| 5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities replaces all existing valid parking cards, issued in accordance with the Council Recommendation on parking cards for persons with disabilities58 at national, regional or local level at the latest by dd/mm/yy [date of application of this Directive]. | 5. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons replaces all existing valid parking cards, issued in accordance with the Council Recommendation on parking cards for persons with disabilities58 at national, regional or local level at the latest by dd/mm/yy [date of application of this Directive]. |
| 58 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 (98/376/EC) OJ L 167/25,12.6.1998 as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. | 58 Council Recommendation of 4 June 1998 (98/376/EC) OJ L 167/25,12.6.1998 as adapted by Council Recommendation of 3 March 2008 by reason of accession of the Republic of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, Romania, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic OJ L 63/43,7.3.2008. |
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| 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. | 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. Persons with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs) across Europe, recognizing the diverse range of conditions, often experience reduction in mobility, that does not yet meet the threshold of disability and therefore are likely to become disabled without support. |
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| 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. | 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities and older persons shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. |
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| 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use either the digital or physical card, or both. | 6. The European Parking Card for persons with disabilities shall be issued or renewed as a physical card and shall be complemented by a digital format upon adoption of the delegated acts referred to in paragraph 7. Persons with disabilities shall be given the option to use, on equal footing, either the digital or physical card, or both. |
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| 6 a. Member States shall encourage public and private authorities to upload relevant information in a publicly available database. |
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| 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement the Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools, and to amend Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools. | 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement the Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools, and to amend Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools. The digital format of the European Parking Card is to be developed in the form of a certified attribute to be integrated within national digital wallet projects aimed at flowing into the EUDI Wallet project. |
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| 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement the Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools, and to amend Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools. | 7. The Commission is empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 11 to supplement the Directive in order to set the digital format of the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools, and to amend Annex II in order to modify the common features of the standardised format, adapt the format to technical developments, prevent forgery and fraud, address abuse or misuse and ensure interoperability, including through the development and deployment of digital tools. |
João Albuquerque, Daniela Rondinelli, Marc Angel, Milan Brglez, Agnes Jongerius, Aurore Lalucq, Elisabetta Gualmini, Klára Dobrev, Marianne Vind, Vilija Blinkevičiūtė, Alex Agius Saliba, Brando Benifei, Ilan De Basso, Alicia Homs Ginel, Carina Ohlsson, Estrella Durá Ferrandis
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| 7 a. The Commission shall establish a publicly available Union database that contains all relevant information related to the applicable parking conditions and facilities as defined at local, regional, or national level in each Member State. The database shall be available in all EU languages and in accessible formats. The database shall be available in the single website, in all official languages, collating the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by their public authorities. Member States shall facilitate information concerning the special conditions or preferential treatment offered by private operators on the website where available and to update this information regularly according to any national legislation changes. |
Lucia Ďuriš Nicholsonová, Abir Al-Sahlani, Jordi Cañas, Monica Semedo, Atidzhe Alieva-Veli, Dragoş Pîslaru, Irena Joveva, Max Orville, Sylvie Brunet, Marie-Pierre Vedrenne
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| 7 a. The Commission shall establish a publicly available Union database that contains relevant information related to the applicable parking conditions and facilities as defined at local, regional, or national level in each Member State. The database shall be available in all EU languages and the national sign languages of Member States as well as in accessible formats. Member States shall ensure public authorities upload this information to the database and update it where necessary. |
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| 7 a. The Commission shall set up a publicly available database that contains relevant information related to the applicable parking rules, conditions, and spaces as defined on local, regional, or national level. The database shall be available in all EU languages. Member States shall make sure that public authorities upload and regularly update relevant information in the database. |
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| 7 a. The Commission shall set up a publicly available database that includes relevant information to the applicable parking rules, conditions, and spaces as defined on local, regional, or national level. The database shall be available and updated in all EU official languages. |
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| 7 a. The Commission shall establish a publicly accessible database, available in all EU official languages, containing information concerning the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, as defined at local, regional or national level. |
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| Article7a | |
| Provisions for card holders when changing residence | |
| 1. Member States shall ensure the beneficiaries who have changed their member state of residence and are pending the issuance of a national disability card by the competent authorities, are guaranteed their rights and benefits provided by the Disability Card and the Parking Card of the member state who issued it. The European Disability Card and the European Parking Card shall be valid until the new national card has been issued. | |
| 2. Member States shall ensure that the process of re-assessment of the disability and the issuing of the new national card and therefore the new European Disabilities and Parking Card does not exceed 6 months. |
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| 1. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing common technical specifications for further specifying the formats of the European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities, their respective security and state of the art digital features including their specific format and, the data contained therein, including the appropriate security measures for the personal data, as well as interoperability matters, such as common EU applications for reading the data contained in digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention, as well as for defining the technical specifications of the digital card storage medium, for matters such as verifying the validity of the cards and their number, for controlling their authenticity, for preventing forgery and fraud, reading of the card(s) between Member States, for their use in the EU Digital Identity Wallet as well as for ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities to any data in the cards. | 1. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts establishing common technical specifications for further specifying the formats of the European Disability and Elderly Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons, their respective security and state of the art digital features including their specific format and, the data contained therein, including the appropriate security measures for the personal data, as well as interoperability matters, such as common EU applications for reading the data contained in digital features in physical cards using electronic means addressing fraud-prevention, as well as for defining the technical specifications of the digital card storage medium, for matters such as verifying the validity of the cards and their number, for controlling their authenticity, for preventing forgery and fraud, reading of the card(s) between Member States, for their use in the EU Digital Identity Wallet as well as for ensuring accessibility for persons with disabilities and older persons to any data in the cards. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, as well as in national sign languages and easy to read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. This information, including information about the services covered in article 2 paragraph 1, shall be collected on an EU-level website and shall be available in all EU languages. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, as well as in national sign languages and easy to read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. This information, including information about the services covered in article 2, paragraph 1, shall be collected on EU-level website and shall be available in all EU languages. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, in an easy tro read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. This information, including information about the services covered in article 2 paragraph 1, shall be collected on an EU-level website and shall be available in all EU languages. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available including on an EU-level website in all EU languages. The information shall be available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, as well as in national sign languages and easy-to-read format, and upon individual request in other assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. The Commission ensures that such informations are available in all EU official languages on an EU-level website. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats (such as easy to read formats and subtitled national sign language videos and international sign videos), including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, national sign languages, Braille, and easy to read format, audio version and upon request in other alternative assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, as well as in national sign languages and easy to read format, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. |
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| 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities. | 1. Member States shall make the conditions and rules, practices, and procedures to issue, renew or withdraw a European Disability and Elderly Card and a European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons publicly available in accessible formats, including in digital formats, and upon request in assistive formats requested by persons with disabilities and older persons. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. Similarly, the Commission is committed to informing the public at the European level about the two documents and specifically their mutual recognition feature within the European Union. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures and the European Commission shall define and coordinate, taking in consideration the participation of all relevant stakeholders, a campaign to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public, including to public authorities and private operators having the potential to offer preferential treatment pursuant to Article 5, and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public including to public authorities and private operators having the potential to offer preferential treatment pursuant to Article 5 and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. The Commission shall undertake a European awareness raising campaign in cooperation with the Member States. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States and the Commission shall take appropriate measures, including via dedicated campaigns on national and EU level, to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures, and the European Commission shall coordinate a campaign, to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures, and the European Commission shall coordinate a campaign, to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities and older persons, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability and Elderly Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities and older persons. |
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| 2. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. | 2. Commission and Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among the public and inform persons with disabilities, including in accessible ways, about the existence and conditions to obtain, use, or renew the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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| Member States shall take necessary measures to ensure clear steps to involve engagement with persons with disabilities and their representative organisations in the European Disability Card’s implementation and surveillance. |
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| 2 a. Member States shall educate and raise awareness as well about the concept of disability driven by rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMDs), making assessment processes more accessible and achievable, as people affected currently have to spend time and effort proving their disability to obtain a card. |
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| 2 a. Member States shall take appropriate measures to raise awareness among professionals in contact with the public, including in accessible ways, about the existence and rights conferred by the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities. |
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European Parliament (2023). “AMENDMENTS 70 - 369 - Draft report Establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities”. Text, 23 November 2023. docId EMPL-AM-756042. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/EMPL-AM-756042 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/EMPL-AM-756042 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-empl-am-756042,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{AMENDMENTS 70 - 369 - Draft report Establishing the European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities}},
year = {2023},
date = {2023-11-23},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/EMPL-AM-756042}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/EMPL-AM-756042},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId EMPL-AM-756042. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}