Table of contents 3.3.4 Ticket-vending machines of ÖBB (Austrian Federal Railways) – Modernisation at the expense of older and disabled persons (VA BD/29-V/06) 3.3.7 ................................................................................................ Trains for people with special needs (VA BD/249-V/06) ......................................... No fare reduction for invalidity pensioners (VA BD/277-V/06, 581-SV/06) ................. Fragmented procedures for people with disabilities ............................................ 88 89 90 90 3.4 Discrimination on the ground of age ........................................................ 91 3.4.1 Nobody responsible for alleged discrimination on the ground of age against a bank official working in a hived-off undertaking? (VA BD/356-V/06) ..................... 3.3.5 3.3.6 3.4.2 Expensive bus ride within a school excursion (VA BD/97-V/05) .............................. 91 94 3.5 Discrimination on the ground of social status ........................................ 95 3.5.1 Yellow paper-based healthcare voucher instead of e-card (electronic health card) for social assistance recipients – Amending Act establishes a basis for the elimination of discrimination (VA W/681-SOZ/05) ............................................. 3.5.2 Telephone connection a luxury? (VA NÖ/278-SOZ/05) .......................................... 95 97 4 EC-TREATY ............................................................................................... 99 4.1 Discrimination on the ground of residence ............................................. 99 4.1.1 Discriminatory entrance fees charged to non-resident visitors of a beach in the Municipality of Klosterneuburg (VA NÖ/178-G/04, State government of Lower Austria LAD1-BI-52/045-2004, Municipality of Klosterneuburg GAIII-BG046426, BKA-671.828/0010-V/A/8/2004) VIII ............. 99