European UnionAudiovisual Media Services Directive, accessibility of media services to persons with disabilities
Directive 2010/13/EU, as amended by Directive (EU) 2018/1808, Article 7
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a directive or treaty
- Obligation class
- Reporting
As of .
What it requires
- If you are a media service provider under the jurisdiction of a Member State, make your audiovisual media services continuously and progressively more accessible to persons with disabilities through the proportionate measures that Member State's law sets, and report on a regular basis to its national regulatory authority or body on their implementation (Article 7(1) and (2)); this reaches you through the law of the Member State that transposes the Directive.
- Provide emergency information, including public communications and announcements in natural disaster situations, that you make available to the public through your audiovisual media service in a manner which is accessible to persons with disabilities, as the Member State's law provides (Article 7(5)).
- Member States encourage media service providers to develop accessibility action plans for continuously and progressively making their services more accessible to persons with disabilities, and any such plan is communicated to the national regulatory authority or body (Article 7(3)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The national regulatory authorities or bodies of the Member State with jurisdiction over the media service provider, to which it reports under Article 7(2)
Also on the record
EEA status
- Annex
- XI.V
- Status
- Incorporated
- Force date
- Joint committee decision number
- 337/2022
- Source link
- https://www.efta.int/eea-lex/32018l1808
- Decision date
What this law does
Article 7(1) of Directive 2010/13/EU, as replaced by Directive (EU) 2018/1808, requires Member States to ensure, without undue delay, that services provided by media service providers under their jurisdiction are made continuously and progressively more accessible to persons with disabilities through proportionate measures.
Article 7(2) requires Member States to ensure that media service providers report on a regular basis to the national regulatory authorities or bodies on the implementation of those measures, and Article 7(3) requires Member States to encourage media service providers to develop accessibility action plans, any such plan to be communicated to national regulatory authorities or bodies.
Article 7(4) requires each Member State to designate a single, easily accessible, including by persons with disabilities, and publicly available online point of contact for providing information and receiving complaints regarding any accessibility issues referred to in the Article.
Article 7(5) requires Member States to ensure that emergency information, including public communications and announcements in natural disaster situations, which is made available to the public through audiovisual media services, is provided in a manner which is accessible to persons with disabilities.
Directive (EU) 2018/1808 required Member States to bring into force the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with it by (Article 2(1)), so the duties reach a media service provider through the law of the Member State with jurisdiction over it.
When LexLint raises it
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