Ensuring strong equalities legislation after EU exit inquiry – Inclusion London’s evidence
Deaf and Disabled People’s main concerns regarding the exit from the EU:
– Losing EU Article 19 of the Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC
– Loss of funding from European Social Fund
– Terrible rise in incidents of hate crime since Brexit
Deaf and Disabled People’s main concerns regarding the exit from the EU:
- Losing EU Article 19 of the Procurement Directive 2004/18/EC
- Loss of funding from European Social Fund
- Terrible rise in incidents of hate crime since Brexit
Another key concern is that the UK government will decide to come out of the European Convention on Human Rights at a later date.
Other losses:
- Air passenger regulations for people with reduced mobility[1]
- EU Directive on web accessibility[2]
- European Accessibility Act[3]
Inclusion London’s full response is available here:
Inclusion London’s evidence to ‘ensuring strong equalities legislation after EU exit’ inquiry
[1] http://www.airpassengerrights.eu/en/reduced-mobility.html
[2] https://ec.europa.eu/digital-single-market/en/web-accessibility