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Digital Services Act

EC Digital Services Act (doc) EC Digital Services Act (pdf)

Digital Education Action Plan 2020

Digital Education Action Plan 2020 (doc)

Artificial Intelligence

EDF Position on EC AI White Paper (doc) EDF Position on EC AI White Paper (PDF)

Council Presidencies

Disability Priorities for the Presidency Trio Germany - Portugal - Slovenia (PDF)

Air Passengers' Rights

EDF Position on Air Passengers' Rights for Persons with Disabilities 2020

EU Green Deal

An Inclusive Green Deal for Europe (Word) An Inclusive Green Deal for Europe (PDF)

Rail Passengers' Rights

EDF Position Paper on Rail Passengers' Rights for the Trilogue negotiations (Word) EDF Position Paper on Rail Passengers'...

EU Green Deal

EDF's response to the public consultation on the "Climate Pact" (PDF)

Social Rights

A Strong Social Europe for Just Transitions: Implementing the EU Pillar of Social Rights

EU Strategy for Victims' Rights

EDF recommendations on the EU Strategy on Victims’ Rights (2020-2024) (PDF) EDF recommendations on the EU Strategy on...

Electronic Communications Code Toolkit

EDF toolkit on transposition of the European Electronic Communications Code (PDF) EDF toolkit on transposition of the European...

Equal access and choice to electronic communications

EDF Recommendations on equal access and choice to electronic communications services (Word) EDF Recommendations on equal access and...

Refugees and migrants with disabilities

EDF Toolkit on inclusion of refugees with disabilities

Council of the EU

Disability Priorities for the Croatian Presidency of the Council 2020

The Role of DPOs in International Cooperation

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) laid a firm foundation for ensuring...

EU Gender Equality Strategy post 2019

During the last decade, the European Commission adopted a Strategy for equality between women and men 2010-2015 and...

BEREC Guidelines detailing Quality of Service Parameters

General comment on the guidelines: Mainstream accessibility - Quality measurement parameters should set accessibility of services as one...

Disability Card

EDF started first campaigning for the introduction of a European Disability Card (then known as “European Mobility Card”)...

Accessibility of Audiovisual Media

The Audiovisual Media Services Directive or AVMSD (referred to as the Directive throughout this text) was adopted on...

EU Regulation 1300/2014 on the technical specifications for interoperability relating to accessibility of the Union's rail system for persons with disabilities and persons with reduced mobility - TSI PRM

EU Regulation 1300/2014 on the technical specifications for interoperability relating to accessibility of the Union's rail system for...

European Accessibility Act

The European Accessibility Act is a landmark agreement reached after decade-long campaigning by the European disability movement. The...

Draft implementing regulation on establishing a contract summary template for publicly available electronic communications service providers (EECC)

There are several aspects when it comes to the accessibility for persons with disabilities of the contract summary...

Council of the EU

In this document, you will find a short summary of policy items that will be decided or discussed...

Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T) Guidelines – evaluation

The EU holds responsibility on infrastructure policy - in the fields of transport, energy and telecommunications - since...

Sexual and reproductive health and rights of women and girls with disabilities

At EDF, we work a lot on the rights of women with disabilities too. We have a group...

Rail Passengers' Rights

These are EDF’s proposed amendments following the European Parliament’s vote on 15 November 2018 and the publication of...

Artificial Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence will have huge implications on the lives of all citizens, including persons with disabilities who can...

Web Accessibility Directive

Within the development of the Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public...

Instrument for Pre-Accession II

We welcome the European Commission’s (EC) legislative proposal of 14 June 2018 for a regulation establishing the Instrument...

European Solidarity Corps

EDF welcomes the European Commission’s initiative on European Solidarity Corps. Ahead of submitting its response to the second...

Connecting Europe Facility (CEF)

Transport accessibility in the EU is not optional, it is a legal obligation under the United Nations Convention...

Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, a new universal ambition was agreed on by world leaders with the adoption of the 2030...

Multi-annual Financial Framework 2021-2027

In 2013, EDF welcomed the European Structural and Investment Funds (ESI Funds) regulations for the period 2014-2020 as...

Web Accessibility Directive

Within the development of the Directive (EU) 2016/2102 on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public...