Establishments open to the public will have an additional 3 to 9 years to make themselves accessible to people with disabilities, while upgrading should be mandatory for 2015.
The law was ambitious, but the deadlines were not tenable… Compliance for the accessibility of establishments open to the public is therefore postponed. Originally, the law of February 11, 2005 set general accessibility for people with disabilities at 2015. After three months of consultation, Jean-Marc Ayrault has just announced it, businesses will have three additional years to meet standards, schools six years, and transport or even complex heritage will even have a period of nine years.
Three years maximum for medical practices
As for medical offices, they will have three years to comply. A major project in perspective, since half of them were still not up to standards in 2013, according to the latest report from the Association des paralysés de France. Doctors will nevertheless be able to obtain exemptions from the Prefecture on several conditions, specified the office of Marisol Touraine: if the building is classified, if there is a technical impossibility, if there is a manifest disproportion between the cost of the work and the expected benefits, and in case of refusal of the co-ownership. The government has put in place a spreadsheet that defines which budget is acceptable and which accommodations can be excluded. “These new deadlines are difficult to accept “, commented the Fnath, the association of accident victims of life.
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