BelgiumDecree of the French Community on audiovisual media services and video-sharing services, Article 4.1-1, accessibility of programmes for persons with a sensory impairment
Décret du 4 février 2021 relatif aux services de médias audiovisuels et aux services de partage de vidéos articles 2.1.4-1, 4.1-1 et 9.2.2-1 (Communauté française)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are a service publisher or a service distributor in the French Community, apply the regulations of the Advisory College of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, approved by the Government, that govern the accessibility of programmes for persons with a sensory impairment (Article 4.1-1, first paragraph).
- Those regulations aim in particular to make programmes continuously and progressively more accessible to persons with a sensory impairment (Article 4.1-1, first paragraph).
- If you broadcast an urgent message of general interest at the request of a Government, ensure that it is also accessible to persons with a sensory impairment (Article 2.1.4-1, second paragraph).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Article 9.2.2-1(1), point 7, sets a fine of at least EUR 250 and at most 3% of annual turnover excluding tax, raised to 5% on a repeat within five years. The College may also issue a warning, order publication of a notice, suspend or withdraw the programme, suspend or withdraw the authorisation and suspend distribution (Article 9.2.2-1(1)).
- Rule
- Turnover pct only
- As of
- Minimum
- 250
- Currency
- EUR
- Turnover percentage cap
- 3
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Authorisation and Control College (Collège d'autorisation et de contrôle) of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel (CSA), which Article 9.2.2-1 empowers to sanction a breach of the audiovisual laws, decrees and regulations
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- is a service publisher or a service distributor subject to the decree of the French Community on audiovisual media services (Article 4.1-1, first paragraph)
What this law does
Article 4.1-1 of the French Community decree requires service publishers and service distributors to apply the regulations of the Advisory College of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, approved by the Government, that govern the accessibility of programmes for persons with a sensory impairment. Article 4.1-1 states that those regulations aim in particular to make programmes continuously and progressively more accessible to persons with a sensory impairment.
Article 2.1.4-1 requires service publishers, when they broadcast an urgent message of general interest, to ensure that it is also accessible to persons with a sensory impairment. Article 9.2.2-1 lets the Authorisation and Control College of the Conseil supérieur de l'audiovisuel, on finding a breach of the audiovisual laws, decrees and regulations, impose a fine. The consolidated text gives the decree's date as and its publication in the Moniteur belge as .
Article 10.4-1 provides that the decree enters into force on the twentieth day after its publication in the Moniteur belge.
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