Public procurement
Legislation/regulations
From reported information, it was not clear whether the revised EU public procurement directives of 2004 had been implemented or whether the accessibility clauses of these directives have been implemented in relation to public procurements of ICTs.
Other initiatives
Action 3.4 of the National Programme for the Inclusion of Disabled People in the Information Society refers to meeting basic accessibility requirements in the request for tenders for the public procurement of ICT services and products.
The ACESSO Unit of the Unit of Mission, Innovation and Knowledge (UMIC) has developed a Technical Specifications Annex for ICTs Public Tenders that addresses procurements in relation to website development. As of October 2003, all of the public administration services were supposed to include the annex in all requests for tenders aiming at production of digital content (online services).
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