SlovakiaMedia Services Act: minimum shares of on-demand programmes with subtitles, sign language and audio description (from 1 January 2027)
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- This duty does not apply before . From that day, if you provide an on-demand audiovisual media service, reserve across all your catalogues at least 25 percent of the programmes offered for programmes with subtitles for persons with hearing impairment or with Slovak sign language, and at least 10 percent for programmes with audio description for blind persons, measured per calendar month (s. 58(1) and (2); Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7).
- Do not count in the total programmes added to a catalogue before that have no multimodal access, sports programmes and music programmes, and for the audio description share also journalism programmes based on guest discussion (s. 58(3) and (4)).
- Mark clearly every programme with subtitles, audio description or sign language, tell the regulator how you mark them and apply the mark in the catalogue (s. 58(5) and (6)).
- Within 15 days of the regulator's request, give it data on the share and number of programmes with each type of access and a list of them with the period they were offered (s. 59).
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Penalty structure
Section 143(2) requires the regulator to fine a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service from 100 to 5,000 euro for breaching the multimodal access duties of section 58(1), section 143(1)(c) a fine from 30 to 1,000 euro for failing to mark programmes under section 58(5) and (6), and section 143(3)(c) a fine from 100 to 10,000 euro for failing to give the regulator the data under section 59(2). Under section 140(1) the regulator imposes a fine if the person, despite a warning, repeatedly breached the same duty.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 100
- Currency
- EUR
- Fixed cap
- 10,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Council for Media Services (Rada pre mediálne služby), the regulator under the Media Services Act
What this law does
Section 58(1) will oblige a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service to reserve, across all its catalogues, at least 25 percent of the programmes offered for programmes with subtitles or sign language and at least 10 percent for programmes with audio description.
Section 58(2) to (4) measure the share by the number of programmes offered per calendar month, leave out programmes added to a catalogue before that have no multimodal access, sports programmes and music programmes, and for the audio description share also talk-based journalism programmes.
Section 58(5) and (6) oblige the provider to mark clearly every programme with subtitles, audio description or sign language, to tell the regulator how it marks them and to apply the mark in the catalogue. Section 59 obliges the provider to give the regulator on request, within 15 days, data on the share and number of programmes with each type of access and a list of them with the period they were offered.
Section 58(7) applies to multimodal access to an on-demand service the definition of multimodal access in section 14(6). Article XIV of the Media Services Act sets as the commencement day of sections 58 and 59. Section 143(2) requires the regulator to fine a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service from 100 to 5,000 euro for breaching the multimodal access duties of section 58(1).
Section 143(1)(c) requires a fine from 30 to 1,000 euro for failing to mark programmes with multimodal access under section 58(5) and (6). Section 143(3)(c) requires a fine from 100 to 10,000 euro for failing to give the regulator the data under section 59(2). Section 1(1)(e) names the Council for Media Services (Rada pre mediálne služby) as the regulator.
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