SlovakiaMedia Services Act: accessibility action plan, accessible emergency announcements and multimodal-access statistics of on-demand audiovisual media service providers
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
What it requires
- If you provide an on-demand audiovisual media service, draw up an action plan for three years aimed at lasting and gradual multimodal access to the service for persons with disabilities (s. 60(1); Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7).
- Publish the plan on the website of your service if it has one, submit it to the regulator by 31 December of the year before the three-year period, and submit an account of the plan by 31 March of the year after the period (s. 60(2), applying s. 57(2) and (3)).
- Make sure that important and urgent announcements of state bodies in an urgent public interest, or civil protection information, that you make available through your on-demand service are accompanied by interpretation into Slovak sign language together with subtitles for persons with hearing impairment or simultaneous transcription of the spoken word (s. 28(3)(c); Directive 2010/13/EU, Art. 7(4)).
- Keep special statistics that include the shares of programmes with multimodal access and deliver the statistics for a calendar month to the regulator within 15 days of its request (s. 28(4)(b) and (5)).
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Penalty structure
Section 143(1) requires the regulator to fine a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service from 30 to 1,000 euro for failing to meet section 60 (point (d)) or a duty under section 28(3) (point (b)), and section 143(3)(a) and (b) a fine from 100 to 10,000 euro for failing to keep or deliver the special statistics under section 28(4) and (5). Under section 140(1) the regulator imposes a fine if the person, despite a warning, repeatedly breached the same duty, a repeat being a breach less than three years after the earlier breach.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 30
- 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 60(1) obliges a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service to draw up an action plan for three years aimed at lasting and gradual multimodal access to the service for persons with disabilities.
Section 28(3)(c) obliges a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service to ensure that important and urgent announcements of state bodies in an urgent public interest, or civil protection information, made available through the service are accompanied by interpretation into Slovak sign language together with subtitles for persons with hearing impairment or simultaneous transcription of the spoken word.
Section 28(4)(b) and (5) oblige the provider to keep special statistics that include the shares of programmes with multimodal access and to deliver the monthly statistics to the regulator within 15 days of its request. Section 60(2) applies sections 57(2) and (3) to the submission and publication of the plan and of the account of it.
Section 57(2) and (3) require publication on the website of the service, submission to the regulator by 31 December of the year before the three-year period, and an account by 31 March of the year after it. Section 143(1)(d) requires the regulator to fine a provider of an on-demand audiovisual media service from 30 to 1,000 euro for failing to meet section 60. Section 143(1)(b) requires a fine from 30 to 1,000 euro for failing to meet a duty under section 28(3).
Section 143(3)(a) and (b) require a fine from 100 to 10,000 euro for failing to keep the special statistics under section 28(4) or to deliver them under section 28(5). Section 140(1) has the regulator impose a fine if the person, despite a warning, repeatedly breached the same duty. Section 1(1)(e) names the Council for Media Services (Rada pre mediálne služby) as the regulator. Article XIV of the Media Services Act takes effect on apart from the exceptions it names.
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