RomaniaNational Audiovisual Council Decision on the audiovisual content code, accessibility shares for broadcasters and on-demand providers
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An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- If you are a broadcaster, make your programme services accessible to persons with visual or hearing impairments: at least 10% of broadcasting time in 2025, 20% in 2026, 35% in 2027 and at least 35% from 2028 must include programmes accessible to persons with disabilities; advertising spots and teleshopping are outside the shares (Decision 573/2025, Art. 53; implements Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7).
- If you provide an on-demand audiovisual media service, make programmes accessible to persons with visual or hearing impairments: at least 10% of the programmes in the catalogue in 2025, 20% in 2026, 35% in 2027 and at least 35% from 2028; advertising spots and teleshopping are outside the shares (Art. 54).
- If you are under Romanian jurisdiction, give the Council by 15 November of each year the report in the model of Annex 2 on the previous calendar year, with the action plan for the current year, state in it the share of the schedule or catalogue broadcast in an accessible way and the modalities used with their share of transmission time, and publish it on your website (Art. 55).
- If you are a broadcaster, carry the information and official communications of public authorities on natural disasters, states of necessity or emergency, siege or armed conflict in a way accessible to persons with disabilities, unless that is impossible (Art. 56); if you provide an on-demand service, make emergency information available to persons with disabilities on the same footing (Art. 57); in exceptional circumstances where accessible delivery is impossible, the information is still made public (Art. 58).
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Penalty structure
Article 91(1) of the Audiovisual Law makes non-compliance with the normative decisions of the Council a contravention, and Article 91(3) fines it between 5,000 and 100,000 lei where the provider does not come into line within the time and conditions of the warning the Council issues first (Article 91(2)) or breaches the provisions again. The amounts are in lei.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 5,000
- Currency
- RON
- Fixed cap
- 100,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The National Audiovisual Council (CNA), which keeps a single online contact point, easily accessible also to persons with disabilities, for information and petitions on the accessibility of audiovisual media services (Decision 573/2025, Article 59)
What this law does
Article 53(1) requires broadcasters to make their programme services accessible to persons with visual or hearing impairments, with at least 10% of broadcasting time including accessible programmes in 2025, 20% in 2026, 35% in 2027 and 35% from 2028. Article 53(2) excludes advertising spots and teleshopping from those shares.
Article 54(1) requires on-demand audiovisual media service providers to make programmes accessible to persons with visual or hearing impairments, with at least 10% of the programmes available in the catalogue in 2025, 20% in 2026, 35% in 2027 and 35% from 2028. Article 54(2) excludes advertising spots and teleshopping from the on-demand shares.
Article 55(1) requires providers under Romanian jurisdiction to give the Council by 15 November each year a report on the previous calendar year, with the action plan for the current year, to be published on their website. Article 55(1) sets 15 November of each year as the deadline for the reports on Article 53 and Article 54.
Article 55(2)(d) and (e) require the report to state the share of the schedule or catalogue broadcast in a way accessible to persons with disabilities and the modalities used, with the share of total transmission time of each type of service.
Article 56 requires broadcasters to carry the information and official communications of public authorities on natural disasters, states of necessity or emergency, siege or armed conflict in a way accessible to persons with disabilities, unless that is impossible. Article 57 requires on-demand providers to make emergency information, including communications and announcements during natural disasters, available to persons with disabilities, unless that is impossible.
Article 59 has the Council create on its website a single online contact point, easily accessible also to persons with disabilities, for information and petitions on the accessibility of audiovisual media services. Article 175(1) brings the decision into force 30 days after its publication in the Monitorul Oficial. The decision was published in Monitorul Oficial number 641 of .
Article 91(1) of the Audiovisual Law makes non-compliance with the normative decisions of the Council a contravention, and Article 91(3) fines it between 5,000 and 100,000 lei after a warning to come into line has gone unheeded.
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