IMCO has prepared the EP's 1st reading position, which was adopted on 26.02.2014. The EP position extends the scope of the directive to ensure that all public sector bodies' websites are fully accessible. It also proposed to extend the new rules to websites belonging to other entities performing public tasks such as the provision of gas, heat, electricity or water, transport, or electronic communication services. Parliament foresees a set of staggered deadlines and proposes that a separate authority be nominated in each Member State tasked with monitoring and rigorously enforcing the rules and setting up a complaint mechanism for problems with web accessibility. On 18.12.2015, COREPER granted a mandate to start informal negotiations with the Parliament during the Dutch Presidency. A first trilogue took place on 26.01.2016.
Rapporteur: Dita Charanzova (ALDE)
Shadows: Sabine Verheyen(EPP), Josef Weidenholzer(S&D), Julia Reda(Greens/EFA) and Anneleen VanBossuyt (ECR).
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