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The following announcement was issued by the Press Office of the Ministry of Labor and Social AffairsThe site where the Disability Certification Centers KEPA will be relocated to the Peace and Friendship Stadium from the current facilities of Piraeus was visited today by the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis.Mr. Hatzidakis met with the Chairman of the Board. of SEF Christina Tsiligiri the coordinating director of SEF Panagiotis Koutsogiannis and the deputy coordinating director Dimitris Bardakas as well as with technicians who handle the issue and discussed ways to accelerate the projects of relocation of the new buildings to KEPA. CHEF. The Management pledged to make every effort to ensure that the projects proceed without delay.The demolition of the existing constructions will be done in the next few days in order to build the new space of 1200 sq.m. of KEPA with 26 rooms warehouses etc. The new facilities will be modern and will have heating air conditioning and parking spaces.Afterwards the Minister of Labor and Social Affairs Kostis Hatzidakis addressed a conference on the accessibility of the disabled in public and public places entitled Access Everywhere which took place at SEF on the occasion of the 3rd of December World Disability.Mr. Hatzidakis noted that the relocation of KEPA is only one of the projects promoted by the Government for people with disabilities. Specifically for the accessibility measures the Minister reminded that we secured funding through the Recovery Fund for the accessibility of our fellow human beings with disabilities in 4000 private homes 700 private workplaces 300 public workplaces and 17 social welfare centers .These initiatives are combined as Mr. Hatzidakis stressed with measures that are now state law after the adoption of the law on the modernization of spatial planning during his tenure at the Ministry of Environment and Energy. These areThe obligation for both existing and new buildings to submit an accessibility study and to be adapted from the ground floor to the top floor to a new vertical accessibility.The incentives to enhance the accessibility of buildings with the possibility of installing structures such as special ramps outside the road line the addition of elevators in buildings where there was no relevant provision in the original building permit.The structures that serve people with disabilities landings lifts no longer counted in the building factor. And can be added without the consent of all co-owners.The obligation of accessibility of persons with disabilities or disabled persons in the common areas of the building in any case of change of use of the building or building space. Otherwise the construction is considered arbitraryIn addition at the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs Mr. Hatzidakis noted we develop initiatives and promote actions aimed at facilitating the daily lives of our fellow human beings with disabilities and defending their rights . In this contextWithin 2022 the disability card will be implemented .The personal assistant was instituted for 1000 people with disabilities and their respective assistants in the first phase satisfying a constant request of the disability movement.It has put an end to the suffering of our disabled fellow citizens with amputations and other irreversible diseases as they will no longer have to go through committees again and again to certify the same disability . Every day of the year is a day for people with disabilities. Every day we have to be next to these fellow human beings as whatever we do for them is not enough concluded Mr. Hatzidakis.
