SloveniaAct on the Accessibility of Products and Services for Persons with Disabilities (ZDPSI), services that give access to audiovisual media services and the Rules on their accessibility (Articles 10, 30(1) and 36)
ZDPSI 10., 30. (1.) in 36. člen (dostop do avdiovizualnih storitev), Zakon o dostopnosti do proizvodov in storitev za invalide, Uradni list RS, št. 14/23 in 14/26
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 (including an electronic programme guide) and you are not a microenterprise, supply electronic programme guides that are perceivable, usable, understandable and robust and that give information on the availability of accessibility elements (Art. 10(1)).
- Deliver the accessibility components of the audiovisual media services, such as subtitles, audio description, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation, in full, in adequate quality, in sync with sound and video, and with user control of display and use (Art. 10(1)).
- Give electronic programme guides the elements of Rules Art. 3: a mark for programme content that uses an accessibility technique, display that can be enlarged, and a switch between default and high-contrast display; and meet the quality rules of the Rules for subtitles (Arts. 4 to 8), audio description (Arts. 9 to 11), spoken subtitles (Art. 12) and sign language interpretation (Arts. 13 and 14), which apply from and not to services aired or equipped with access services before that day (Rules Arts. 15 and 16).
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Penalty structure
Article 36(1) fines a legal person EUR 500 to EUR 5,000, and a legal person that counts as a medium-sized or large company according to the company law EUR 1,000 to EUR 10,000, that offers the service in breach of the first or second indent of Article 10(1). Article 36(2) fines a sole trader or self-employed individual EUR 250 to EUR 2,500, Article 36(3) fines the responsible person, including in a state body or local self-government community, EUR 50 to EUR 250, and Article 36(4) fines an individual EUR 50 to EUR 250. The fine tiers for services depend on whether the legal person counts as a medium-sized or large company according to the company law: under Article 55(4) and (5) of the Zakon o gospodarskih družbah (ZGD-1), applied in that form from the financial year beginning in 2024, a company is medium-sized if it is neither micro nor small and meets two of: no more than 250 workers on average, net sales revenue not above EUR 50,000,000 and assets not above EUR 25,000,000, and large if it is none of micro, small or medium-sized. The Act states each tier in euros, within the ranges that Article 17(2) of the Minor Offences Act (ZP-1) allows, and no general provision multiplies a ceiling for a company.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 500
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 10,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Agency for Communication Networks and Services (AKOS) supervises the additional accessibility conditions for services giving access to audiovisual media services (Art. 30(1)).
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- a service that gives access to audiovisual media services, within Article 3(2) point 2 and Article 5 point 37 of the Act
- a provider that is not a microenterprise; the Act defines a microenterprise as an enterprise with fewer than ten employees and an annual turnover not above EUR 2 million, or an annual balance sheet total not above EUR 2 million (Article 4(2) and Article 5, point 17)
What this law does
Article 5 point 37 defines a service that gives access to audiovisual media services as a complementary service providing the technical means of access, carried over electronic communications networks and used to identify, select and use audiovisual media services and to receive information about them, and it includes electronic programme guides.
Article 10(1) requires the provider to supply electronic programme guides that are perceivable, usable, understandable and robust and that give information on the availability of accessibility elements. Article 10(1) requires the accessibility components of audiovisual media services, such as subtitles, audio description, spoken subtitles and sign language interpretation, to be delivered in full, in adequate quality, in sync with sound and video, and with user control of display and use.
Article 3 of the Rules on the conditions of accessibility of services that give persons with disabilities access to audiovisual media services (Uradni list RS 82/2024) requires electronic programme guides to mark programme content that uses an accessibility technique, to let information be enlarged, and to switch between default and high-contrast display.
Article 5 of the Rules requires subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing normally to run in two lines, at a speed of up to 20 characters per second except where verbatim transcription is needed. Article 11 of the Rules requires audio description to include actions, movements and scene changes, and to describe on-screen text, symbols, logos and graphics unless the nature of the work does not justify it.
Article 14 of the Rules requires the sign language interpreter to take up at least one fifth of the screen width. Article 15 of the Rules provides that they do not apply to audiovisual services that providers aired or equipped with access services before the Rules began to apply. The Rules enter into force on the day after their publication of and apply from .
Article 36(1) fines a legal person EUR 500 to EUR 5,000, and a legal person that counts as a medium-sized or large company according to the company law EUR 1,000 to EUR 10,000, that offers such a service in breach of the first or second indent of Article 10(1). Article 36(2) fines a sole trader or self-employed individual EUR 250 to EUR 2,500. Article 36(3) fines the responsible person EUR 50 to EUR 250, including the responsible person in a state body or a local self-government community. Article 36(4) fines an individual EUR 50 to EUR 250 for the offence of Article 36(1).
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