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ANNEX

National and international laws, recommendations and guidelines on access and services for disabled people:
BELGIUM

• Information regarding access via Vzw Toegankelijkheidheidsbureau, Koorstraat 1, Hasselt

• Steunpunt Toegankelijkheid Vlaanderen is in the process of being set up

BULGARIA 

• Regulation N1, 10 January 1995

• Act for Protection, Rehabilitation and Social Integration of Disabled people, 1995, updated 2001

ESTONIA 

• Social Welfare Act of the Republic of Estonia, Appendix of Legal Acts 94,1158, 1999

GERMANY 

• Barierrefreies Bauen, DIN 18024-2, November 1996

GREECE 

• Law 2831/2000, http://www.tee.gr/info.htm 

• ‘Development of Library Services for Visually Impaired People: Guide for Hellenic Libraries’

• Special guidelines on ‘Planning for Accessible Transportation and Independent Living of Individuals with Disabilities’, Hellenic Ministry for the Environment, Physical Planning and Public Works 1986-2000. http://www.minenv.gr/1/162/16203/g1620300.html 

HUNGARY 

• 1998 Law (No. 26)

• Ministry of Culture: Library Law of 1997

IRELAND

• Department for the Environment and Local Government: Branching Out: a new public library service, December 1998 http://www.environ.ie/press/publib.html

NETHERLANDS 

• NBLC 'Statuut voor de Openbaare Bibliotheek'

• Handbook 'Geboden Toegang', Wijk, M. et al (1995) http://www.bk.tudelft.nl/d-arch/dfa/publi.htm

POLAND 

• Directive of the Ministry of Spatial Management and Construction of 15 December 1994: technical requirements regarding buildings and their locations

• Disabled People's Bill of Rights; Resolution of the Sejm of the Republic of Poland of 1 August 1997

• Resolution no. 212/99 of the Board of the Public Fund for Rehabilitation of the Disabled of 26 May 1999

PORTUGAL 

• Law 123/97 (22 May), 95/99 (25 August), 96/99 (26 August), 97/99 (26 August)

ROMANIA 

• Urgent Ordinance no. 102, 29 June 1999

• Urgent Ordinance no. 40, 25 April 2000

• Urgent Ordinance no. 47, 29 March 2001

• Order 649, 25 April 2001

UNITED KINGDOM 

• Resource - the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries: The Disability Directory (provides guidance for museums and galleries on how to improve their services for all disabled people) http://www.resource.gov.uk/information/publications/00pubs.asp

• Resource - the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries: Learning and Access Strategy (a guide for museums, archives and libraries to support lifelong learning, social change and community development) 
  http://www.resource.gov.uk/information/publications/00pubs.asp

• Department for Culture, Media and Sport (Libraries, Information and Archives Division): Comprehensive, Efficient and Modern Public libraries - Standards and Assessment, 12 February 2001 http://www.culture.gov.uk/heritage/libraries_papers.html

• Disability Discrimination Act 1995 http://www.nlbuk.org/bpm/chapter3.html

• Resource - the Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries: Library services for visually impaired people: a manual of best practice http://www.natlib.co.uk/bpm/

•  ‘Out of sight but not out of mind.’ Visually impaired people’s perspective of library and information services, LISU Occasional Paper no. 29, November 2001 http://www.lboro.ac.uk/departments/dis/lisu/Outofsight.htm\

WALES 

• National Assembly for Wales: Comprehensive, Efficient and Modern Public Libraries for Wales. Standards and Monitoring, September 2001 http://www.wales.gov.uk/subiculture/content/libraries/libstandards-cnts-e.htm 

For reference:

EU

• Directive 2001/29/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society http://www.eurorights.org/eudmca/CopyrightDirective.html 

• Equality of Opportunity for People with Disabilities
  http://europa.eu.int/comm/employment_social/soc-prot/disable/index_en.htm 

CANADA

• Canadian Guidelines on Library and Information Services for People with Disabilities, February 1997 http://www.cla.ca/about/disabils.htm 

USA 

• Americans with Disabilities Act P.L. 101-336, 1990, titles II and III http://www.access-board.gov/about/ADA.htm

• Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1998 http://www.access-board.gov/about/Rehab Act Amend-508.htm

• Smithsonian Accessibility Program, Office of the Provost: Smithsonian Guidelines for Accessible Exhibition Design http://www.si.edu/opa/accessibility/exdesign/start.htm
  

IFLA

• Guidelines for Development - The Public Library Service, IFLA Publications Vol. 97, 2001, ISBN 3-598-21827-3 http://www.ifla.org/III/misc/ifla-un.htm

UNITED NATIONS

• International Day of Disabled Persons 3 December 2002 – this site contains useful list of publications including Declaration of the Rights of the Disabled http://www.un.org/depts/dhl/dispersons/ 

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