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Directive (EU) 2015/1535
Notification: 2024/0078/RO
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MSG: 20240418.EN
1. MSG 001 IND 2024 0078 RO EN 16-02-2024 RO NOTIF
2. Romania
3A. Ministerul Economiei, Antreprenoriatului și Turismului, Direcția Afaceri Europene și Relații Internaționale, Adresa: București, Calea Victoriei nr.152, email: reglementari.tehnice@economie.gov.ro, tel: +40372492634
3B. Autoritatea Națională pentru Protecția Consumatorilor, adresa: București, Blv.Aviatorilor
4. 2024/0078/RO - T00T - TRANSPORT
5. Order on the provision by economic operators of information regarding access to public passenger transport services and respectively in buildings owned by them to consumers in the disabled persons category
6. Information to consumers in the disabled persons category
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8. Article 1. Economic operators carrying out public passenger transport activities, including by air, as well as economic operators operating in buildings or premises where access ramps or other types of access for disabled persons cannot be installed or have not yet been provided, shall be required to provide clear and accurate information to consumers falling in this category on how to access them in public transport, buildings or premises.
Article 2. (1) Public transport operators shall be required to display in a visible form and size and to install on all access doors of the means of transport, dedicated to disabled persons, clear and accessible indications dedicated to them on how they may have access to boarding/alighting the public means of transport, consisting of pictograms and/or light signals, as well as an audio system to warn them of the places of boarding and alighting, the time of opening and closing of the doors and the name of the stations.
(2) Transport operators are required to install external/internal audio signals above each access door, as well as inside the means of transport, to announce their stop at the station.
(3) Public passenger transport operators are required to place, on each platform/refuge/station where the means of public transport will stop, but not limited to, special markings and information boards, which shall contain indications on the location of the door dedicated to the access of disabled persons or from where they will be taken over and how the boarding and alighting will be made.
(4) In each platform/station/refuge, public transport operators are required to display visible instructions, consisting of simple, succinct, intuitive and intelligible pictograms on the boarding and alighting of disabled persons from the means of transport, including the obligation of the staff involved to inform them of the station where they are to perform the alighting, as well as the concrete way in which they will be supported.
(5) At the request of persons with mobility impairments, the staff involved in the public transport of persons is required to provide them with information on how they will be helped to board/alight, as well as to provide assistance when boarding/alighting from the means of public transport.
(6) Public passenger transport operators are required to put in place information arrangements dedicated to persons who are blind or visually impaired, presented physically and/or digitally.
(7) At airports, it is mandatory to display on access doors, on information boards in their immediate vicinity or in waiting rooms, but not limited to, clear and accessible indications for all categories of disabled persons, consisting of pictograms and/or light signals, as well as an audio system, on how these persons are supported to have access, move and/or board.
(8) All the information referred to in paragraphs 1 to 7 shall be submitted as part of the regulations undertaken by public transport operators or premises management operators.
(9) For the category of blind or visually impaired persons, economic operators are required to transmit communications, information, warnings or indications according to the obligations laid down in Article 1, as well as those in paragraphs (1) to (7), but not limited to, in the audio version or by using any specific physical or digital means.
Article 3. (1) Economic operators operating in buildings or premises where access ramps or other access options for disabled persons cannot be installed or have not yet been provided are required to inform by any means, on doors or panels, in the immediate vicinity of the access path, how they can benefit from the necessary support.
(2) In application of the provisions of paragraph (1), economic operators must also have information variants dedicated to blind or visually impaired persons, either audio or by using any specific physical or digital means.
Article 4. (1) The economic operators referred to in Article 1 are required to display the information plate referred to in Annex I, which makes an integral part of this Order.
(2) The plate referred to in paragraph (1) shall be made through the care of economic operators,
according to the model shown in the Annex to this Order and displayed in the consumer’s field of vision in a visible place.
(3) Economic operators must also have variants dedicated to blind or visually impaired persons, either audio or by using any specific physical or digital means.
9. In order to fulfil one of the main tasks of A.N.P.C., that of defending consumers against actions that affect their lives and health, we consider it appropriate to issue an administrative act by which the above operators are required to provide clear and accurate information on the access of disabled persons to the means of transport or the related premises.
Operators of public transport by road, rail and water must be obliged to display on all access doors of the means of transport for people with disabilities the way in which they can enter and leave the means of transport, and to this end they must install stickers or light signals and an audio version to warn people with disabilities about boarding and alighting points, the opening and closing times of doors and the names of stations.
Public transport operators must also place, on each platform/refuge/station where the means of public transport will stop, but not limited to, special markings and information boards containing indications on the location of the door dedicated to the access of disabled persons or from where they will be taken over.
Operators of public transport by road, rail and water must display in each platform/shelter/station the procedure for boarding and alighting disabled people from transport, including the existence of an obligation on the driver to inform the disabled person where they are to alight and how they will be supported. There must also be information options dedicated to people who are blind or visually impaired, including by using the Braille Alphabet.
In airports, access doors or information panels in their immediate vicinity, in waiting rooms, but not limited to, information on how disabled persons will be supported to access, move, including for boarding, shall be transmitted.
All information must be presented as part of regulations undertaken by public transport operators or premises management operators.
In the case of blind persons, economic operators must have the obligation to make any communication, information, warning, but not limited to, either audio or using the Braille Alphabet.
Economic operators operating in buildings or premises where ramps or other access options for disabled persons cannot be provided shall be required to inform by any means, on doors or billboards, in the immediate vicinity of the access path, how they can benefit from the necessary support.
Economic operators making available to consumers hotel rooms, documents, including, but not limited to, invoices, contracts, information, must also have options dedicated to people who are blind or visually impaired, including through the use of the Braille Alphabet.
10. Reference(s) to basic text(s): No basic text available
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TBT aspects: No
SPS aspects: No
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