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2024
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European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities - European Disability Card and European Parking Card for persons with disabilities for third country nationals legally residing in a Member State (joint debate - Disability cards)
Mr President, thank you very much. Commissioner, I'm sorry. The European Disability Card and the European Parking Card for persons with disabilities are certainly documents, solutions that people with disabilities have long and patiently waited for, who, despite changes and improvements, still have limited access to education, health care, the labour market, employment, culture and sport. So these are the expected solutions. What was and remains the main objective of this Directive? Well, improving mobility, improving accessibility, so that people with disabilities who go to another Member State, during a short stay of up to three months, can benefit from the solutions used by a given Member State. Were the negotiations easy? No, I don't. Are there problems? Yeah, yeah, yeah. These are the result of differing case-law in the Member States. But the charter opens Europe.