PolandAct on ensuring that economic operators meet accessibility requirements for certain products and services, services providing access to audiovisual media services
Dz. U. 2024 poz. 731 art. 14 i art. 5 pkt 31 ustawy o zapewnianiu spełniania wymagań dostępności niektórych produktów i usług przez podmioty gospodarcze
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you provide a service that gives access to audiovisual media services (a service delivered over a telecommunications network to identify media services other than radio programs, select them, receive information about them and display them, including the related facilities for persons with disabilities and electronic program guides), meet the general service requirements of Article 12 and, in addition, make electronic program guides and the information on facilities for persons with disabilities perceivable, functional, understandable and compatible (Art. 14 point 1; implements Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I, Section IV, point (b)(i)).
- Pass on the facilities for persons with disabilities that the audiovisual media service provider supplies (as defined in the Act on Radio and Television Broadcasting) with a quality that allows them to be displayed properly, synchronized with sound and picture, and controlled by the user (Art. 14 point 2; Annex I, Section IV, point (b)(ii)).
- The Act does not apply to services offered or provided by microenterprises (Art. 4 point 1).
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If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Article 73(1) point 2 fines a service provider that does not ensure its services meet Articles 12 to 19, does not give in time, or gives false or misleading, the information requested under Article 32(2) point 7, does not present evidence within the period of Article 62(1) point 1, does not assess conformity under Article 32(1), or does not inform the authority under Article 32(2) point 6. Each fine is up to ten times the average monthly wage in the national economy for the preceding year, as announced by the President of Statistics Poland, and not more than 10% of the turnover achieved in the financial year before the year of the fine. The cap shown is ten times the PLN 8,903.56 announced for 2025, which governs a fine imposed in 2026; the turnover limit can lower it. The PFRON President or the market surveillance authority imposes the fine by decision, and it is paid into the Accessibility Fund within 14 days of the decision becoming final (Art. 73(3) and (5)).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Currency
- PLN
- Fixed cap
- 89035.6
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The President of UKE, the market surveillance authority for services giving access to audiovisual media services under Article 38(3) point 1, within the market surveillance system of Article 38(2) that includes the PFRON President
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- a service provider that is not a microenterprise (mikroprzedsiębiorca): Article 4 point 1 provides that the Act does not apply to "usług oferowanych lub świadczonych przez mikroprzedsiębiorców" (services offered or provided by microenterprises)
What this law does
Article 14 requires services giving access to audiovisual media services to make electronic program guides and information on facilities for persons with disabilities perceivable, functional, understandable and compatible. Article 14 requires those services to pass on the facilities for persons with disabilities that the audiovisual media service provider supplies, with quality that allows proper display and synchronization.
Article 5 point 31 defines services giving access to audiovisual media services as services transmitted over a telecommunications network and used to identify media services, excluding radio programs, to select them and receive information about them and to display them.
When LexLint raises it
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