Question 7532 — people with disabilities

Summary

As part of a European and international movement, Law No. 2005-102 of February 11, 2005 as amended for equal rights and opportunities, participation and citizenship of people with disabilities, known as the “Handicap law”, is one of the main laws on the rights of people with disabilities since the 1975 law. It makes accessibility of the entire travel chain which includes the built environment, roads, developments of public spaces, transport systems and their intermodality, by 2015 (on January 1, 2015 for ERPs and on February 13, 2015 for public transport). Although real progress took place in the years following the adoption of the 2005 law, its implementation proved more difficult than expected. Taking note of these difficulties, Order No. 2014-1090 of September 26, 2014 relating to the implementation accessibility of establishments open to the public (ERP), public transport, residential buildings and roads for disabled people simplifies and clarifies accessibility standards. Its key provision is the establishment of a timetable system: the Scheduled Accessibility Agendas (Ad'AP). The programmed Accessibility Agenda is called Ad'AP for what concerns the built environment, in which it is obligatory, and SD'AP (accessibility master plan-programmed accessibility agenda) for the transport sector, in which it is a voluntary application tool. The Ad'AP is a multi-year programming document, which specifies the nature of the work and its cost and commits the establishment manager who signs it to carry out the work within one to three years. Its submission is obligatory for those who have not completed their obligations within the deadline set by the law of February 11, 2005. Certain managers, facing proven technical or financial constraints, may request up to 3 additional years and those at the head of particularly complex assets (determined by the requirement for continuity of service, the number of municipalities in which they are located, the number of buildings concerned, etc.) may exceptionally request up to 6 years additional, thus bringing the duration up to 9 years. A first detailed assessment of the implementation of these provisions will soon be submitted to Parliament; its preparation is based on work carried out by an inspection mission involving the IGF, the IGAS and the CGEDD. Its conclusions will also be shared transparently with all associations, in accordance with the commitment made within the framework of the committee. interministerial disability committee. Already, the monitoring elements constructed by the ministerial delegation for accessibility make it possible to attest that the Ad'AP system has made it possible to strongly relaunch the dynamic driven by the law of 2005. While less than 50,000 establishments serving the existing public had become accessible between the law of February 2005 and 2015, more than 670,000 ERPs have now entered the system. Ad'AP system. Built since 2005 or made accessible between 2005 and 2015, 350,000 ERPs are now accessible. More than a million ERPs are integrated into the process. ERPs will become accessible gradually until 2024 in the event that asset owners have obtained, in accordance with the law, a period of 9 years to carry out the necessary work. This is particularly the case for most ERPs of local authorities whose accessibility is progressing at the pace defined by their Ad'AP approved by the State. According to the same logic, the SD'AP gives the transport organizing authorities the possibility of extending the required work beyond 2015, and commits the transport organizing authority which signs it to carry out the accessibility works and actions within a period of up to: a period of 3 years maximum for the urban transport; two periods of 3 years maximum for interurban transport and transport in Ile-de-France; three periods of 3 years maximum for rail transport, including transport services using the lines of the regional express network (RER) Despite the legislative developments which have shaken up the SD'AP by modifying the geographical perimeters and powers (law on the modernization of public action territorial and affirmation of metropolises, law relating to the delimitation of regions, and law relating to the New Territorial Organization of the Republic), the results of the SD'AP are also encouraging. Since the 2005 law, transport accessibility has been considerably strengthened even if transport accessibility still remains imperfect due to the time required to complete work on stopping points. priorities. For rail transport, 44 of the 160 national stations to be made accessible for 2024-2025 have been made accessible for an implementation cost estimated at €877 million, as have 74 of the 361 regional stations outside Ile-de-France to be made accessible for 2024-2025 (for a cost estimated at €895 million). In Ile-de-France, 170 of the 385 stations to be made accessible by 2024-2025 have been brought up to standard at a cost of approximately €1,441 million. Regarding road transport, in urban areas, 50 to 70% of priority stops have already been made accessible and 85%, on average of buses, are accessible to all types of disabilities. In the interurban area, 15 to 30% of priority bus stops are already accessible to all types of disabilities and 60% on average of coaches are accessible to all types of disabilities. Finally, with regard to the metro in particular, the law of March 26, 2018 relating to the organization of Olympic and Paralympic Games of 2024 has provided that the competent transport organizing authorities for the metropolises of Greater Paris and the metropolis of Aix-Marseille will develop new proposals within 18 months to develop universal accessibility of the modes of transport necessary to reach the sites linked to the organization and running of the 2024 Olympic Games.

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