Vezi raport EN

2023

ACTIVITY

REPORT

FOREWORD

ANALYSIS OF PETITIONS

Access to public, legal and health services,

RECEIVED BY N.C.C.D. IN 2023

ANALYSIS OF CASES PROCESSED

to other services, goods and facilities

BY N.C.C.D. IN 2023

ANALYSIS OF CASE PROCESSING

BASED ON THE DECISIONS ISSUED

BY N.C.C.D.’S STEERING BOARD

DECISION A                                                                                                                                       EXAMPLES FROM THE CASE LAW

OF N.C.C.D.’S STEERING

Charging additional fees for additional boarding and disembarking services to indi-                                                                         BOARD DECISIONS

viduals with locomotor disabilities has been deemed by the N.C.C.D.’s Steering Board                                                                         ACTIVITY OF THE CASE

INVESTIGATION OFFICE

as a serious act of discrimination leading to a limitation of the right to free movement.

ACTIVITY UNDERTAKEN BY

Thus, the additional charge imposed on the petitioner, who is unable to travel alone                                                                      THE LEGAL DIRECTORATE

and depend on the wheelchair, represents, applying the disability criterion, an act of                                                                THE ISSUE OF DISCRIMINATION

discrimination which affected the petitioner’s right to benefit from the services offered                                                                IN ROMANIA REFLECTED IN

INTERNATIONAL REPORTS

by the respondent companies on equal terms with other persons, and as such the                                                              NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMBATING
provisions of Regulation (EC) No 1107/2006 of the European Parliament concerning                                                               DISCRIMINATION IN MASS-MEDIA

the rights of disabled persons and persons with reduced mobility when travelling by                                                                                  FINANCIAL

AND PERSONNEL DATA

air were not observed. Pursuant the provisions of article 20 para. 2 of G.O. no. 137/2000 the N.C.C.D.’s Steering Board found an act of discrimination and imposed on each of the 3 com- panies against which petitions were submitted an administrative fine amounting to 30,000 RON each, as the amount of the penalty is proportionate to the material benefits brought over the years by overcharging in a discriminatory manner the persons with locomotor disabilities when boarding and disembarking from aircraft.

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