Accessibility Assessment Reports

Accessibility Assessment Report

Updated: 23-10-2024

The production of the Assessment Reports of the Degree of Accessibility – Supervision of the Technical Standards of Accessibility present here, is part of one of the requirements of the legal regime of accessibility in force, namely that of monitoring the application of Decree-Law No 163/2006 of 8 August 2006 (DL163/2006), as amended.

Article 2 of Decree-Law No 125/2017 of 4 October 2017 (DL125/2017) provided for the transfer to the sphere of competence of the Instituto Nacional Reabilitação, I.P. (INR) of a set of competences initially attributed to the defunct Directorate-General for National Buildings and Monuments, including monitoring the implementation of Decree-Law No 163/2006 and drawing up, on an annual basis, an overall assessment of the degree of accessibility existing in the spaces, buildings and equipment covered by the scope of that Decree-Law, namely: the facilities and their surroundings of central, regional and local public administration and public institutes that are in the nature of personalised services and public funds; buildings, establishments, equipment for public use and public roads listed in paragraph 2 of article 2 of DL163/2006 and, also, residential buildings in which the Technical Standards of Accessibility in force (NTA), published in annex to this law, are applicable.

This is precisely the purpose of the reports presented here, which, in essence, year after year, intend to assess the commitment to accessibility on the part of all the agents involved in some way in the built territory. The remaining competences attributed to the INR by DL125/2017 contribute to the overall assessment of the degree of compliance with the NTAs: monitoring compliance with the NTA with regard to the obligations imposed on central public administration bodies and public institutes and the power to impose penalties in the context of these monitoring actions (Articles 12 and 21, respectively, of DL163/2006); registration of the terms of responsibility of urban operations promoted by the central, regional and local public administration and public institutes (Article 4 of DL163/2006) and collection of the justification of the reasons that may legitimise possible non-compliance with the NTA, in cases where they are exempt from licensing and authorisation (Article 10 of DL163/2006). In addition, pursuant to Article 22(2) of Decree-Law No 163/2006, reports on the situation as at 31 December of each year, to be sent to this institute by 30 March of the following year, by the other NTA supervisory bodies, in particular: the IGF – Audit Authority – which, with the entry into force of Decree-Law No 125/2017, assumed the supervisory competence with regard to the duties imposed on local public administration entities, initially assigned to the Inspectorate-General for Territorial Administration – and the municipal councils, as supervisory entities for the duties imposed on individuals.

Accessibility Assessment Report

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