BelgiumDecree of the German-speaking Community on media services and cinema screenings, Article 21, accessibility of audiovisual media services for persons with support needs
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are an audiovisual media service provider in the German-speaking Community, improve the accessibility of your services for persons with support needs continuously and increasingly, by appropriate measures (Article 21(1)).
- Report to the Media Council every three years from the date of your notification on how you carried out those measures (Article 21(1)).
- Provide emergency information that you make available to the public through audiovisual media services, including public communications and announcements in natural disasters, in a way that is accessible to persons with support needs (Article 21(2)).
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Penalty structure
Article 138 lets the Media Council impose a warning, suspension of the programme concerned, a press notice or an administrative fine of up to EUR 25,000 for a breach of Title 2; on a repeat within five years the fine is set at 5% of annual turnover excluding tax.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 25,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Media Council of the German-speaking Community (Medienrat der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft), which Article 138 empowers to sanction a breach of Title 2 of the Decree
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- is an audiovisual media service provider subject to the Decree of the German-speaking Community on media services and cinema screenings (Article 21(1))
What this law does
Article 21(1) of the Decree of the German-speaking Community requires audiovisual media service providers to improve the accessibility of their services for persons with support needs continuously and increasingly, by appropriate measures. Article 21(1) requires media service providers to report to the Media Council every three years from the date of their notification on how they carried out those measures.
Article 21(2) requires emergency information made available to the public through audiovisual media services to be provided in a way that is accessible to persons with support needs. Article 138 lets the Media Council, for a breach of Title 2 of the Decree, impose on the media service providers concerned a warning, a press notice or an administrative fine.
Article 157 provides that the Decree enters into force on the day of its publication, which the title line of the consolidated text gives as in the Belgisch Staatsblad.
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