French General Code of Local Authorities
In forceIn municipalities with a population of 5,000 or more, a local accessibility committee is set up, made up of representatives of the municipality, associations or bodies representing disabled people with all types of disability, particularly physical, sensory, cognitive, mental or psychological, associations or bodies representing the elderly, representatives of economic players and representatives of other users of the town.
This committee draws up a report on the state of accessibility of the existing built environment, roads, public spaces and transport. It details the accessibility to disabled people or people with reduced mobility, according to the type of disability, of the main routes and paths within a radius of two hundred metres around priority stopping points within the meaning of article L. 1112-1 of the Transport Code. It draws up an annual report presented to the municipal council and makes any useful proposals likely to improve the accessibility of existing facilities.
It receives draft programmed accessibility agendas provided for in article L. 165-1 of the Construction and Housing Code concerning establishments open to the public located within the municipal territory.
It also receives monitoring documents defined by the decree provided for in article L. 165-5 of the Code de la construction et de l'habitation and the certificate of completion of the work provided for in the programmed accessibility agenda mentioned in the same article when the programmed accessibility agenda concerns an establishment receiving the public located within the municipal territory.
For rail transport services, the commission is the recipient of the accessibility master plans-programmed accessibility agendas provided for in the article L. 1112-2-1 du code des transports when they include one or more establishments open to the public located within the local authority area, as well as summaries of the work corresponding to these master accessibility plans-programmed accessibility plans provided for in I of article L. 1112-2-4 of the same code.
The communal commission and the inter-communal commission for accessibility shall keep up to date, electronically, the list of establishments open to the public located within the communal or inter-communal territory that have drawn up a programmed accessibility agenda and the list of establishments accessible to the disabled and the elderly.
The report of the communal accessibility commission is presented to the town council and forwarded to the State representative in the department, the president of the departmental council, the departmental council for citizenship and autonomy, as well as to all those responsible for the buildings, facilities and workplaces concerned by the report.
The mayor chairs the commission and draws up the list of its members.
This commission also organises a system for identifying the supply of housing accessible to disabled and elderly people.
The creation of an intercommunal commission for accessibility is compulsory for public establishments for intercommunal cooperation with jurisdiction over transport or spatial planning, as soon as they group together 5,000 inhabitants or more. It is chaired by the president of the establishment in question. It carries out its duties within the limits of the powers transferred to the grouping. The municipalities that are members of the establishment may also, by means of an agreement with the grouping, entrust the inter-municipal commission with all or some of the tasks of a municipal commission, even if they do not fall within the remit of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation. When they coexist, the communal and inter-communal commissions ensure that the findings they draw up are consistent, each within their area of competence, concerning the accessibility of the existing built environment, roads, public spaces and transport.
Public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with fewer than 5,000 inhabitants may create an inter-communal commission for accessibility. Chaired by the president of this establishment, it carries out its duties within the limits of the powers transferred to the grouping. The municipalities that are members of the establishment may also, by means of an agreement signed with this grouping, entrust the inter-municipal commission with all or part of the tasks of a municipal commission, even if they do not fall within the remit of the public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation.
Municipalities may freely set up an inter-municipal commission for accessibility. This committee carries out the tasks of a local committee for all the volunteer municipalities, within the limits of the powers transferred, where applicable, by one or more of them to a public establishment for inter-municipal cooperation. It is then chaired by one of the mayors of the municipalities concerned, who jointly draw up the list of its members.
