IrelandEuropean Union (Award of Public Authority Contracts) Regulations 2016, Regulation 42(4) and (5), accessibility criteria in technical specifications
In force since .
A procurement conditions rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
As of .
What it requires
- If you sell goods, services or works that a contracting authority procures for use by natural persons, whether the general public or its own staff, expect its technical specifications to take into account accessibility criteria for persons with disabilities or design for all users, except in duly justified cases (S.I. 284/2016, Reg. 42(4)); the paragraph names no technical standard.
- Where mandatory accessibility requirements are adopted by a legal act of the European Union, the technical specifications you tender against are defined by reference to them (Reg. 42(5)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
What this law does
Regulation 42(4) requires that, for procurement intended for use by natural persons, whether the general public or staff of the contracting authority, the technical specifications be drawn up, except in duly justified cases, so as to take into account accessibility criteria for persons with disabilities or design for all users.
Regulation 42(5) requires the technical specifications to be defined by reference to any mandatory accessibility requirements that a legal act of the European Union adopts.
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