This draft mandate was drawn up by an EU DG (forgive me if I don't quote
chapter and verse) based on the discussions at the meeting in Brussels
in October 2005, attended by some on this list. The attached document
describes a two-phase approach to establishing European-wide
accessibility standards, and making a free 'toolkit' widely available to
assist in the application of standards within procurement.

In the UK, the representative is based at the DTI. Other representatives
from the EU member countries are named in the second attachment. If you
agree with the content of the mandate, you might wish to lobby your
country representative to support the adoption of the mandate in the
vote, deadline 31 August.

Best wishes
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Ruth Loebl
Senior ICT Development Officer

Royal National Institute of the Blind
58-72 John Bright Street
Birmingham
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Tel: +44 (0)121-665 4231
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-----Original Message-----
From: Chiara Giovannini [mailto:c.giovannini@...]
Sent: 01 August 2005 08:51
Subject: Request for lobbying the national member of the 98/34 Committee
(ANEC 0134-05)

To the members of the ANEC DfA, ICT, Coordination Group and General
Assembly

Request for lobbying the national member of the 98/34 Committee

Dear All,

The 98/34 Committee will vote by correspondence with deadline 31 August
2005 an issue which is of major importance to ANEC:

* Draft Draft standardisation mandate to CEN, CENELEC and ETSI in
support of European accessibility requirements for public procurement of
products and services in the ICT domain

AIM OF THE MANDATE

* to provide a set of accessibility requirements for public
procurement of ICT products and services in Europe aimed at enhancing
ICT accessibility for people with disabilities and older persons.

* to create a mechanism through which the public procurers have
access to a freely-available electronic toolkit, enabling them to make
use of these harmonised requirements in public procurement.

We would appreciate if you could contact the representative of your
country on the 98/34 Committee to lobby in favor of the mandate.

WHY DO WE SUPPORT IT

* it is a basic consumer right to have access to products and
services. Discrimination exists if older people and people with
disabilities cannot use many of today's mainstream products and services

* Standards need to be developed to realise the full potential of
the legislative instruments which encourage a Design for All approach

* Public procurement is beneficial for consumers as it will
increase the market demand of accessible mainstream ICT products &
services (this is already happening in the United States)

Please find attached the draft programming mandate for your information
as well as the list with the contact details of 98/34 Committee
representatives contact points for each Member State. Should you need
any further information, please do not hesitate to contact me.

It would be helpful to receive feedback from you in case you were able
to talk to the respective 98/34 Committee representative.

Kind regards

Chiara GIOVANNINI
Programme Manager

ANEC - European Association for the Co-ordination of
Consumer Representation in Standardisation
Av. Tervueren 32 box 27 - B-1040 Brussels

Tel. +32 2 743 24 70 - E-Mail: anec@...
Fax +32 2 706 54 30 -

Direct E-mail: c.giovannini@...
Internet: <http://www.anec.org/>

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