NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION OF KOREA Submission to the Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities – July 2022 stipulates that the state may provide funding for operation, but it is a dispositive provision. In addition, attached Table 2 of the Enforcement Decree of the Subsidy Management Act excludes special transportation projects for persons with disabilities(operation expense) from eligibility, it is still impossible to provide national subsidies for the operation of special transportation. □ Recommendations ㅇ The government should establish and implement detailed plans to introduce intercity(high-speed) and wider-area express buses equipped with wheelchair boarding facilities. ㅇ Reasonable accommodation should be provided so that persons with visual and hearing disabilities can use buses equally with people without disabilities. ㅇ Related laws have to be reorganized so that national subsidies can be provided for mobile support centers and wide-area mobile support centers that operate special transportation, and measures to address regional gaps in the operation of special transportation should be prepared. 9-2 Accessibility to public buildings and public facilities ⁕Including LOI 6 □ Current status and problems ㅇ The government has amended the Enforcement Decree of the Act on the Guarantee of Convenience Promotion of Persons with Disabilities, Senior Citizens, Pregnant Women and Nursing Mothers(hereinafter referred to as the Enforcement Decree of Disability Convenience Act)(enforced on 2022.5.1.), referring to the 1st Concluding Observation of the Committee and the Policy Recommendation to Enhance Accessibility of Persons with Disabilities to Smallsized Public Facilities(2018) of the Commission and eased the minimum area criteria of facilities subject to mandatory installation of facilities for persons with disabilities such as supermarkets from more than 300㎡ to more than 50㎡. ㅇ Recently, the court issued a meaningful ruling in the first trial of “litigation for a 16