CroatiaElectronic Media Act, accessibility of television and on-demand media services (Articles 18 and 20(2))
Zakon o elektroničkim medijima, čl. 18. i 20. st. 2. (NN 111/2021)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are a television publisher, provide audio or audiovisual media services on demand under Article 26, or transmit an audiovisual or radio program by satellite, internet or cable under Article 92, make your services continuously and progressively more accessible to children with developmental difficulties and to persons with disabilities, by proportionate measures (Art. 18(1)).
- Report to the Council for Media (the Council for Electronic Media in the Act as published) once a year, and by 1 September at the latest, on the measures you took to make your services more accessible (Art. 18(3)).
- When the minister orders you to publish proclamations and official announcements of state bodies during a major natural disaster, major accident, catastrophe or epidemic, publish them in a way that is also accessible to children with developmental difficulties and to persons with disabilities (Art. 20(1) and (2)).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Council for Media (Vijeće za medije, the Council for Electronic Media in the Act as published) and the Agency for Media (Agencija za medije, named Agencija za elektroničke medije in the Act as published), which is the online contact point for information and complaints on all accessibility questions under Article 18 (Art. 18(2) to (4))
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- a television publisher, a provider of television broadcasting media services (Article 18(1); Article 3(1), point 16)
- a provider of audio or audiovisual media services on demand with the permission of the Council (Article 26(1))
- a media service provider with permission for satellite, internet, cable or other transmission of an audiovisual or radio program that has no concession and is not an on-demand provider (Article 92(1))
What this law does
Article 2 of the Electronic Media Act transposes Directive 2010/13/EU, among other acts of the European Union. Article 1(5) applies the Act to Croatian Radiotelevision as well, unless a special law provides otherwise. Article 18(1) requires television publishers, and the media service providers within Articles 26 and 92, to make their services continuously and progressively more accessible, by proportionate measures, to children with developmental difficulties and to persons with disabilities.
Article 18(2) requires the Council for Electronic Media to encourage media service providers to develop accessibility action plans for the continuous and progressive increase of the accessibility of their services. Article 18(3) requires media service providers to report to the Council once a year, and by 1 September at the latest, on the measures they took.
Article 18(4) makes the Agency for Electronic Media the online contact point for information and for receiving complaints on all accessibility questions under Article 18. Article 29(1) of the Act implementing the European Media Freedom Act continues the Agency for Electronic Media as the Agency for Media from the day that Act entered into force. Article 5 of that Act makes the Council for Media (Vijeće za medije) and the director the bodies of the Agency for Media.
That Act enters into force on the eighth day after its publication, which was , so the new names apply from . Article 20(1) lets the minister order media service providers to publish, free of charge, proclamations and official announcements of state bodies during major natural disasters, major accidents, catastrophes or epidemics.
Article 20(2) requires media service providers to publish those announcements in a way that is also accessible to children with developmental difficulties and to persons with disabilities. Article 26(1) covers a legal or natural person that provides audio or audiovisual media services on demand with the permission of the Council.
Article 92(1) covers a media service provider that has no concession and is not an on-demand provider, to which the Council gives permission for satellite, internet, cable and other permitted forms of transmission of an audiovisual or radio program.
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