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crossroads Șos. Olteniţa with Bd. C. Brâncoveanu and Str. Alunișului and the lack of access ramps restricted the access of disabled persons, in particular blind people. The petitioner claims that, as the local authorities only managed to provide easy access only in a small part of the crossroads in Bucharest, she filed many petitions both in her name and in the name of some associations, requesting proper equipment’s with crossing buttons at the crossroads of Șos. Olteniţei and Bd. Constantin Brâncoveanu and Str. Alunișului, considering the high number of blind people in that area, in addition to people with other disabilities. The complainant claims the equipment is improper, because of the incorrectly adjusted acoustic signals and the signalled area adapted only from one side of the road up to the middle of it crossroads, with no continuation to the other side of the street. One can in fact start crossing the road at the green light only up to the middle of the street, where blind people will have to risk their life to finish crossing the street. The complainant claims that access ramps are also tricky

and cannot be used by a person in a wheelchair.

The Steering board Resolution no. 41/20.01.2016 noted that the case is pursuant to the pro- visions of Art. 2 par. 1 and Art. 10 letter h) of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000 on the prevention and punishment of all facts of discrimination, as republished, and imposed a warning on the defendant Mayor of Bucharest, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 7 of the Government Ordinance no. 2/2001 on the legal regime of offences and of Art. 26 par. 1 of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000 on the prevention and punishment of all facts of discrimination, as republished. The Steering board recommends Mayor of Bucharest that they take appropriate measures no later than 6 months to provide budgetary funding for the repair of the situation notified by the complainant and implement measures taken in no longer than 1 year. The Steering board also recommends social inspectors within the National Agency for Payments and Social Inspection within the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Protection and Elderly to control and sanction in no more than 6 months the lack of

measures pursuant to the valid legislation.

28. Language. Access to public information The complainant claims that one of the public buildings of the Ciceu Mayor’s Institution is exclusively branded in Hungarian. The complainant claims that there is a sign written exclu- sively in Hungarian on one of the public buildings of the Ciceu Mayor’s Institution, Harghita county. The petitioner also submitted a series of photos with the building marked as “Kul- turotthon”. The complainant claims that by placing that sign written exclusively in Hungarian she is conditioned access to information regarding the destination of that building by the knowledge of Hungarian language. The mayor of Ciceu sends a very clear message through which he shows Romanian citizens who speak Hungarian are preferred. The petitioner, in her written conclusions, shows that the mayor took down the sign after receiving the petition and associated documentation.

The Steering board Resolution no. 43/20.01.2016 notes the existence of a differentiated and discriminatory treatment pursuant to the provisions of Art. 2 par. 1 corroborated to Art. 10 letter h) of the Government Ordinance no. 137/2000 on the prevention and punishment of all facts of discrimination, as republished, and ruled on imposing a warning, pursuant to the provisions of Art. 5 par. 2 and Art. 7 par. 3 of Government Ordinance no. 2/2001 on the legal regime of offences, with additional changes and modifications. The Steering board also recommends the defendant to make all due efforts so that public interest information be

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