SlovakiaElectronic Communications Act, ss. 86(3)(d), 93(4) and 131f, answering of emergency communication to 112 by synchronized voice and text including real-time text, and by total conversation
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- Once the Ministry of the Interior has provided the technical solution for answering emergency communication (the Ministry must provide it by at the latest), if you provide a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service through which end-users can call numbers of the national or international numbering plan, provide to end-users of 112, free of charge, emergency calls, eCall, SMS and the answering of emergency communication by synchronized voice and text including real-time text (s. 93(4) and s. 131f; Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I Section IV(a)(iii)).
- Where the Ministry of the Interior enables the receipt of video, also provide the use of emergency communication by synchronized voice, text including real-time text, and video as total conversation (s. 93(4); Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I Section IV(a)(ii) and (iii)).
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Penalty structure
Section 124(1) sets the fine at EUR 200 up to 10 percent of turnover for the previous accounting period, which section 124(6) limits to EUR 300,000 where there was no turnover or the turnover cannot be calculated. Section 124(5) sets EUR 200 to EUR 20,000 for a person who is not a businessperson. A fine may be imposed within two years of the day the breach is found and within four years of the breach (section 124(13)). Where a serious or repeated breach is not removed despite a fine or a protective measure, the Office may prohibit the undertaking from providing networks or services for up to 24 months (section 124(14)). Turnover is the sum of all sales, revenues or income from the sale of goods or services without indirect taxes, plus any financial aid from public sources, and the previous accounting period is the one for which the last regular financial statements were drawn up (section 124(7) and (8)). In supervision the Office may also impose a procedural fine of up to EUR 2,000, also repeatedly, on a person that obstructs supervision by not meeting its duties under section 122(14), among them removing the deficiencies found within the period the Office sets (section 122(18)).
- Rule
- Turnover pct only
- As of
- Minimum
- 200
- Currency
- EUR
- Turnover percentage cap
- 10
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (Úrad pre reguláciu elektronických komunikácií a poštových služieb, the Office), which imposes the fine under section 124 and supervises compliance under section 122.
What it reaches
Instrument type
an act of a legislature
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- All of
- Criteria
- an undertaking that provides a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service through which end-users can make calls to numbers of the national or international numbering plan (section 93(2), to which section 93(4) refers)
- the Ministry of the Interior has provided the technical solution for answering emergency communication (section 131f), and for the video limb the Ministry enables the receipt of video
What this law does
Section 93(4) of the Electronic Communications Act, rewritten by Article VI of Act 88/2026, obliges an undertaking that provides a publicly available number-based interpersonal communications service to provide to end-users of 112, free of charge, emergency calls, eCall, SMS and the answering of emergency communication by synchronized voice and text including real-time text, and by total conversation where the Ministry of the Interior enables the receipt of video.
Section 86(3)(d), as rewritten by the same Article, gives a subscriber the right to use emergency communication on 112 by synchronized voice and text including real-time text, and by total conversation where the ministry enables the receipt of video. Section 131f makes the right in section 86(3)(d) and the duty in section 93(4), in the text in force from , apply on the basis of the Ministry of the Interior providing the technical solution for answering emergency communication.
Section 20ab of Act 129/2002, inserted by Article II of Act 88/2026, requires the Ministry to provide the emergency communication of section 5(2)(a) of that Act by at the latest. Article VIII of Act 88/2026 sets as its commencement day.
Article 4(8) of Directive (EU) 2019/882 requires Member States to ensure that the answering of emergency communications to 112 by the most appropriate PSAP complies with the accessibility requirements of Section V of Annex I. Section IV, point (a)(iii), of Annex I to that Directive requires electronic communications service providers to transmit emergency communications by voice and text, including real-time text, synchronized and where video is provided as total conversation, to the most appropriate PSAP.
Section 124(1) of the Act lets the Office fine a breach of section 93, paragraphs 1 to 6, between EUR 200 and a maximum of 10 percent of turnover for the previous accounting period. Section 124(5) and (6) of the Act set the fine for a person who is not a businessperson at EUR 200 to EUR 20,000 and cap the fine at EUR 300,000 where there was no turnover or the turnover cannot be calculated.
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