SwedenMediemyndighetens föreskrifter om tillgänglighetskrav för tjänster som ger åtkomst till audiovisuella medietjänster (Swedish Media Authority regulations on accessibility requirements for services giving access to audiovisual media services)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- If you provide a service that gives access to audiovisual media services (identifying, selecting, receiving information about and using TV services and their accessibility features on websites, set-top boxes and apps), meet Annex 2 to Förordning (2023:676) and the added requirements of this regulation (MEMYFS 2025:1, s. 3).
- Provide electronic programme guides that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust and give information about the accessibility options (MEMYFS 2025:1, s. 3, point 1; Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I, Section IV).
- Pass subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, audio description, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation through in full, with adequate quality, in sync with sound and video, and let the user control their display and use (MEMYFS 2025:1, s. 3, point 2).
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If you get it wrong
Penalty structure
Section 39 of the Act sets the sanction fee (sanktionsavgift) at not less than SEK 10,000 and not more than SEK 10,000,000, determined by the seriousness and extent of the breach and the circumstances, reducible wholly or partly for special reasons, and payable to the State. The same range applies to a natural or a legal person, and the Act sets no turnover-based ceiling. No fee is decided in a minor case or where the breach underlies an application to impose a vite (sections 37 and 38). An order under sections 32 to 34 may also carry a vite (section 35), which the Vite Act (1985:206) sets at an amount likely to make the addressee comply, with no statutory ceiling.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- SEK
- Fixed cap
- 10,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Swedish Media Authority (Mediemyndigheten), the supervisory authority for services giving access to audiovisual media services under section 29 of the Ordinance
What this law does
MEMYFS 2025:1 is made under section 7 first paragraph point 2 of the Ordinance. Section 3 requires services that give access to audiovisual media services to meet the accessibility requirements in Annex 2 to the Ordinance. Section 3 point 1 requires electronic programme guides that are perceivable, operable, understandable and robust and that give information about the accessibility options.
Section 3 point 2 requires the provider to ensure that the accessibility components of the audiovisual media services, such as subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing, audio description, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation, are transmitted in full with adequate quality for correct display synchronized with sound. Section 3 point 2 also requires the provider to let the user control the display and use of those accessibility components.
The Swedish Media Authority states that its supervision can be pursued only to the extent possible under the current constitutional rules on freedom of the press and freedom of expression. Section 37 of the Act allows the supervisory authority to order an economic operator to pay a sanction fee for breach of rules made under the sections it lists.
When LexLint raises it
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