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"Madam President, ladies and gentlemen, support for the inclusion of people with restricted mobility is one of the priorities of the EU 2020 strategy. The EU also ratified the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in January this year. This step is undoubtedly a sign of the determination of the EU to build a barrier-free Europe for about 80 million people. Fulfilment of the generally defined objectives, however, must include concrete practical steps both at EU and Member State level, and particularly at local community level. In the European Parliament’s Committee on Transport and Tourism, we have long been pushing for people with disabilities to have more accessible and properly tailored information on the rights they have for facilitating mobility. As the shadow rapporteur for the White Paper on transport, I would like to encourage the European Commission to present a document setting out the rights of passengers on all forms of transport as soon as possible, on the understanding that the document will have a separate chapter on people with disabilities. There are thousands of everyday obstacles for people with disabilities to overcome. I firmly believe that access to information in an appropriate form is one of the preconditions for the better social inclusion of people with disabilities and the elimination of barriers, in the interests of better mobility."@en1
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