BulgariaRadio and Television Act, Article 8a(1) to (4), accessibility of radio and television services to people with impaired vision or hearing
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are a media service provider, ensure that the content of your services gradually becomes accessible to people with impaired vision or hearing; the means include, without limitation, sign language interpretation, subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, spoken subtitles and audio description (Art. 8a(1); implements Directive 2010/13/EU as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/1808, Art. 7).
- If you provide radio services, offer, within the periods and in the ways set in your action plan, programmes accessible to people with impaired vision or hearing over the internet, mobile applications or other technical means you have (Art. 8a(1)).
- Give the Council for Electronic Media an action plan for continuously and gradually increasing the accessibility of your services for people with disabilities, covering a three-year period, and annual reports on the progress made in the accessibility of your services for people with impaired vision or hearing (Art. 8a(2); Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7).
- Provide emergency information, including public announcements and natural-disaster messages, that you broadcast through audiovisual media services in a way accessible to people with disabilities; public announcement of emergency information is not to be obstructed if in exceptional circumstances it proves impossible to provide it in an accessible way (Art. 8a(3); Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7).
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Council for Electronic Media: its officials establish the violations of the Act and its Chair issues the penal decrees (Article 127(1) and (2))
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
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- Criteria
- a media service provider, that is a provider of audiovisual media services or radio services within Article 2(1) of the Radio and Television Act; Article 8a(1) and (2) bind "Доставчиците на медийни услуги" and Article 8a(4) binds the public media service providers
What this law does
Article 8a(1) requires media service providers to ensure that the content of their services gradually becomes accessible to people with impaired vision or hearing, by means that include sign language interpretation, subtitles for deaf and hard-of-hearing people, spoken subtitles and audio description.
Article 8a(1) requires radio service providers to offer, over the internet, mobile applications or other technical means, programmes accessible to people with impaired vision or hearing in the periods and ways set in their action plans. Article 8a(2) requires media service providers to give the Council for Electronic Media three-year action plans for continuously and gradually increasing the accessibility of their services and annual progress reports.
Article 8a(3) requires media service providers to make emergency information, including public announcements and natural-disaster messages broadcast through audiovisual media services, available in a way accessible to people with disabilities. Article 8a(4) requires public media service providers to make news and current-affairs television programmes accessible to people with impaired vision or hearing in line with technological development and their economic means.
Article 8a(4) leaves the specific accessibility duties of the Bulgarian National Radio and the Bulgarian National Television to their licences. Article 8a(4) binds only the public media service providers. Article 8a(6) has the Council for Electronic Media keep on its website the contact details of an official designated to give information and receive complaints on accessibility.
Article 126(1), which sets the property sanction for a media service provider's breach of the provisions it lists, does not list Article 8a. Article 127 has the officials of the Council for Electronic Media establish violations of the Act and its Chair issue the penal decrees.
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