SwedenPost- och telestyrelsens föreskrifter om offentliggörande av information (Post and Telecom Authority regulations on the publication of information), accessible format and information on products and services for end users with disabilities
PTSFS 2022:7, Post- och telestyrelsens föreskrifter om offentliggörande av information
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you provide an internet access service or a publicly available interpersonal communications service, publish your contact details and a description of your services, including information on the parts of your products and services designed especially for end users with disabilities, covering as a minimum functions, methods, guidelines and procedures and changes in the operation of the service, in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/882 (PTSFS 2022:7, s. 4; Directive (EU) 2018/1972, Annex IX point 2.6).
- Publish all the information the regulations require (contact details and service descriptions, prices, standard contract terms, access to emergency communications and dispute resolution, ss. 4 to 9) in a format that is machine-readable, easy to reach and accessible to end users with disabilities in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/882 (PTSFS 2022:7, s. 10; Directive (EU) 2018/1972, Art. 103(1)).
- The regulations do not apply to a microenterprise that provides only number-independent interpersonal communications services, an enterprise that employs fewer than 10 persons and whose turnover or balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million (PTSFS 2022:7, s. 2; Lag (2022:482), 1 kap. 7 §).
- If you sell an internet access service or a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service to a consumer in a bundle with other services or terminal equipment, the publication duty covers every element of the bundle (Lag (2022:482), 7 kap. 26 §).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS), the regulatory authority and the supervisory authority under the Act
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
Section 2 of the regulations excludes the microenterprise by the Act's own term. Chapter 1 section 7 of the Act defines a microenterprise by Title I of the Annex to Commission Recommendation 2003/361/EC and joins the turnover and balance sheet limits with "or".
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- Criteria
- the provider is not a microenterprise that provides only number-independent interpersonal communications services, a microenterprise being an enterprise that employs fewer than 10 persons and whose turnover or balance sheet total does not exceed EUR 2 million
What this law does
PTSFS 2022:7 is made under chapter 7 section 2 point 2 of the Ordinance (2022:511). Chapter 7 section 5 of the Act requires a provider of an internet access service or a publicly available interpersonal communications service to publish clear, comprehensive and up-to-date information about the service. The regulations give detailed rules on what that provider must publish and how.
Section 4 of the regulations requires the provider to publish information on the parts of its products and services that are designed especially for end users with disabilities, in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/882. That information must cover, as a minimum, functions, methods, guidelines and procedures, and changes in the operation of the service.
Section 10 of the regulations requires the published information to be machine-readable and easily accessible, and to be published in a format that is accessible to end users with disabilities in accordance with Directive (EU) 2019/882. Section 2 of the regulations makes them inapplicable to a microenterprise that provides only number-independent interpersonal communications services.
When a provider of an internet access service or a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service provides it to a consumer together with other services or terminal equipment as a bundle, chapter 7 section 26 of the Act applies the publication duty of section 5 to all elements of the bundle. A footnote to the regulations refers to Directive (EU) 2018/1972.
Article 103(1) of that Directive requires the information in Annex IX to be published in a clear, comprehensive, machine-readable manner and in an accessible format for end-users with disabilities. Annex IX point 2.6 lists details of products and services specifically designed for end-users with disabilities among the information to be published. The Post and Telecom Authority is the regulatory authority and the supervisory authority under the Act.
The supervisory authority may require a person to give the information or documents supervision needs. An order of that kind may be combined with a conditional fine (vite). Where the supervisory authority suspects that the Act or the regulations made in connection with it are not followed, it must tell the operator and give it a reasonable time to respond. The supervisory authority may then issue the orders needed for correction at once or within a reasonable time.
A correction order of that kind may also be combined with a conditional fine (vite). The regulations were decided on . The regulations entered into force on .
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