RESOLUTION OF THE COUNCIL AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL, of 16 December 1991 concerning a Community action programme on the accessibility of transport to persons with reduced mobility (92/C 18/01)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES AND THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE MEMBER STATES OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, MEETING WITHIN THE COUNCIL,

Whereas the completion of an internal market without frontiers may be expected to increase opportunities for mobility for all the people of Europe;

Whereas persons with reduced mobility, as citizens enjoying the same rights as other citizens, must also be able to benefit from these opportunities;

Whereas the increase of average life expectancy for the population of Europe will manifest itself in an increase in the number of persons with reduced mobility;

Whereas Community action to promote the accessibility of transport to persons with reduced mobility should form an integral part of a common transport policy,

Request the Commission:

- to formulate, taking account of the proposal which it has submitted to the Council for a Directive drawing up minimum requirements to improve the mobility and the safe transport to work of workers with reduced mobility (1) and also of the principle of subsidiarity and in cooperation with the experts from the Member States, a Community action programme including proposals for concrete measures designed to improve accessibility to all modes of public transport and to the access points thereto,

- to submit a draft of this action programme to the Council if possible before the end of September 1992.

(1) OJ No C 68, 16. 3. 1991, p. 7.