The European Parliament has persisted with the exclusion of microenterprises from the directive on accessibility of products and services to disabled persons. It did this by adopting on Thursday 14 September, a report submitted by Morten Løkkegaard (ALDE, Denmark) during a particularly drawn out vote due to the many different amendments. It passed, however, with a comfortable majority (537 vote in favour, 12 against, 89 abstentions).
It should be pointed out that microenterprises are...