RomaniaLaw on the protection and promotion of the rights of persons with disabilities, accessibility duties of private operators
Legea nr. 448/2006 art. 64 alin. (2)-(3), art. 66-68, art. 69 alin. (1), art. 70 și art. 100 alin. (1) lit. b) privind protecția și promovarea drepturilor persoanelor cu handicap
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An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- If you operate a taxi service, provide at least one car adapted to the transport of persons with disabilities who use a wheelchair (due within six months of the Act's entry into force), and do not refuse to carry a person with a disability and the mobility device, which is discrimination (Art. 64(2) and (3)).
- If you publish books or magazines, make the electronic print matrices available to authorised legal entities that ask for them in order to convert the works into formats accessible to persons with visual or reading impairments, under the conditions of Law 8/1996 (Art. 66(1)).
- If you operate telephone services, adapt at least one booth in each bank of public telephones and give information on the cost of your services in forms accessible to persons with disabilities (Art. 67(1), due by ).
- If you provide banking services, give persons with disabilities, on request, account statements and other information in accessible formats (Art. 67(2)); the employees of banking and postal operators assist persons with disabilities in completing forms, on request (Art. 67(3)).
- If you own hotel premises, adapt at least one room for a guest who uses a wheelchair, mark the entrance and reception with tactile paving or carpets and hold a tactile map of the building, and fit lifts with tactile markings (Art. 68, due by ).
- If you are a central or local private institution (Art. 69(1)) or a central or local institution governed by private law (Art. 70(1)), ensure authorised sign-language interpreters for direct relations with persons who are deaf or deafblind (Art. 69(1)), and information and documentation services accessible to persons with disabilities (Art. 70(1)).
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Penalty structure
Article 100(1)(b) fines a breach of Articles 64, 65(1), (2) and (5), 66, 67, 68, 69(1), 70 and 71, among other articles, between 10,000 and 25,000 lei. The amounts are in lei, in the wording of Article 100(1) in force since . An offender may pay half the minimum fine within 15 days of receiving or being notified of the record of the contravention (Government Ordinance 2/2001, Article 28(1)).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- RON
- Fixed cap
- 25,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Social inspectors establish the contraventions of Article 100(1)(a), (b), (e), (f) and (h) and apply the fines (Article 100(2))
What this law does
Article 64(2) requires all taxi operators to provide at least one car adapted to the transport of persons with disabilities who use a wheelchair. Article 64(3) treats a taxi driver's refusal to carry a person with a disability and the mobility device as discrimination. Article 64(2) gave taxi operators six months from the Act's entry into force to provide the adapted car.
Article 66(1) requires publishers to make the electronic matrices used to print books and magazines available to authorised legal entities that ask for them in order to convert them into formats accessible to persons with visual or reading impairments. Article 67(1) required telephone operators, by , to adapt at least one booth in each bank of public telephones and to provide information on the cost of their services in forms accessible to persons with disabilities.
Article 67(2) requires banking service operators to make account statements and other information available to persons with disabilities, on request, in accessible formats. Article 67(3) requires the employees of banking and postal operators to assist persons with disabilities in completing forms, on request.
Article 68 requires hotel premises owners to adapt at least one room for a guest who uses a wheelchair, to mark the entrance and reception with tactile paving or carpets and hold a tactile map of the building, and to fit lifts with tactile markings. Article 69(1) requires central and local authorities and institutions, public or private, to provide authorised sign-language interpreters for direct relations with persons who are deaf or deafblind.
Article 70(1) requires central and local public authorities and institutions, public or governed by private law, to provide information and documentation services accessible to persons with disabilities. Article 100(1)(b) fines a breach of Articles 64, 66, 67 and 68, of Article 69(1) and of Article 70 between 10,000 and 25,000 lei. Article 100(1) has had its current wording since , when Law 145 of amended it.
Article 100(2) has social inspectors establish the contraventions of Article 100(1)(a), (b), (e), (f) and (h) and apply the fines. Article 100(6) supplements the contravention provisions with Government Ordinance 2/2001 on the legal regime of contraventions.
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