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Dr Anna Drabarz
ORCID: 0000-0003-0855-3841

Dr Anna Drabarz

Doctor of Law. Assistant Professor at the Department of Public and European International Law at the Faculty of Law of the University of Białystok. She specializes in issues related to the implementation of the rights of people with disabilities in the field of European Union law and national law. She works at the Polish Ministry of Development Funds and Regional Policy, in the team transposing the European Accessibility Act into the Polish legal system.

 
DOI: 10.33226/0137-5490.2021.9.1
JEL: K23, K33, K38

During the last decade, a number of EU legal regulations have been adopted in different areas to make the EU space more accessible for persons with disabilities and older persons. European accessibility standards and funding opportunities have been put into place to support their implementation in the environment built and in the information and communication technologies (ICT) and disseminate the Design for All approach. The primary rationale for these steps involves the goals of social cohesion and inclusion, often overshadowing the market arguments relevant to business stakeholders. Their fullest (so far) combination has been adopted in the European Accessibility Act. The analysis, from a Poland's perspective as a Member State, presents how important it is to involve business entities in the processes of planning, creating, implementing and evaluating the transposing legal provisions and tools for increasing the level of accessibility of space, product and service.

Keywords: European Accessibility Act; social market economy; Web Accessibility Directive; CRPD