LithuaniaLaw on the Provision of Information to the Public, accessibility of public information, audiovisual media services and warning messages (Articles 20(1) and 34(2))
Visuomenės informavimo įstatymas Nr. I-1418, 20 str. 1 d. ir 34 str. 2 d.
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- If you prepare or disseminate public information, work with the competent State and municipal bodies so that the public information you disseminate progressively becomes accessible to persons with disabilities (Art. 34(2)); Art. 34(2) has applied since .
- If you provide audiovisual media services and are not LRT, adapt the public information you disseminate for persons with disabilities as the information accessibility improvement action plan approved by the institution the Government authorises provides (Art. 34(2)).
- If you provide audiovisual media services and are not LRT, report regularly to the Radio and Television Commission on how the measures in the action plan are being implemented (Art. 34(2)).
- If you publish the warning messages of State or municipal bodies in an emergency, publish them so that the information in them is accessible to persons with disabilities (Art. 20(1)); Art. 20(1) in this wording has applied since .
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Radio and Television Commission of Lithuania (Lietuvos radijo ir televizijos komisija), which supervises implementation of the information accessibility improvement action plan under Article 34(2)
What this law does
Article 34(2) of the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public requires the producers and disseminators of public information, working with the competent State and municipal bodies, to ensure that the public information they disseminate progressively becomes accessible to persons with disabilities.
Under Article 34(2) audiovisual media service providers other than LRT adapt the public information they disseminate for persons with disabilities according to the information accessibility improvement action plan approved by the institution the Government authorises. Article 34(2) has LRT adapt its television programmes for persons with hearing and visual impairments under the Law on the National Radio and Television.
Article 34(2) has the Radio and Television Commission supervise how the action plan is implemented, and audiovisual media service providers submit to it regular reports on the measures in the plan. The Commission publishes on its website the information needed to file a complaint about the adaptation for persons with disabilities of the public information that audiovisual media service providers disseminate.
Article 20(1) requires the producers and disseminators of public information to publish the warning messages of State and municipal bodies in an emergency so that the information is accessible to persons with disabilities. Article 28 of Act No. XIV-180 brought that act into force on , except its Article 10, which took effect on . Article 10 of Act No. XIV-180 added paragraph 2 to Article 34 of the Law.
Article 28(2) of Act No. XIV-180 required the institution the Government authorises and the Radio and Television Commission to adopt by the legal acts needed to implement Article 10. Lithuania listed the Law on the Provision of Information to the Public among its national measures for Directive (EU) 2019/882. The Ministry of Social Security and Labour lists Article 34 of the Law among the other laws that carry content accessibility requirements.
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