TurkeyRegulation on the Procedures and Principles for Improving Access of the Deaf and of Hearing-Impaired and Visually-Impaired Persons to Broadcast Services (Radio and Television Supreme Council), accessible programme quotas, sign-language news and voiced screens
Also known as Sağırların, İşitme Ve Görme Engellilerin Yayın Hizmetlerine Erişiminin İyileştirilmesine İlişkin Usul Ve Esaslar Hakkında Yönetmelik (Regulation on the Procedures and Principles for Improving Access of the Deaf and of Hearing-Impaired and Visually-Impaired Persons to Broadcast Services).
Sağırların İşitme ve Görme Engellilerin Yayın Hizmetlerine Erişiminin İyileştirilmesine İlişkin Usul ve Esaslar Hakkında Yönetmelik (Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu), Resmî Gazete 11/10/2019, sayı 30915, m. 2, 5, 6, 8, 9 ve 10
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you are a national terrestrial private media service provider with a national terrestrial television licence or temporary broadcasting right, or the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, broadcast accessible programmes, meaning programmes carrying detailed subtitles, sign language or audio description, for at least 10% of your monthly broadcast time within six months, 25% within two years (5% each in subtitles, sign language and audio description) and 40% within five years (10% each) (Regulation, Art. 5(1)).
- Broadcast at least two evening-band programmes a week, other than main news bulletins, as accessible programmes at first broadcast or within a week of it, and continue accessible series episodes as accessible programmes (Art. 5(3) and (6)).
- Announce the day and time of each accessible programme and its translation type at least one day ahead, state the translation type in its promotions, and send the Council your monthly statistics on accessible programmes within ten days of each month's end (Art. 5(5) and (8)).
- Broadcast one main news bulletin a day in sign language, and voice your weather and road status screens, market and currency screens, and score screens (Art. 6(1)).
- Show the sign-language interpreter, by green screen or blue screen, on at least one eighth of the screen and in waist-up view (Art. 8).
- Make sure a public service announcement you broadcast carries at least one of detailed subtitles, sign language and audio description (Art. 9(1)).
- Voice the symbols of the protective symbol system (Art. 10).
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Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Radyo ve Televizyon Üst Kurulu (Radio and Television Supreme Council), which executes the Regulation under Article 12
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- a national terrestrial private media service provider that holds a national terrestrial television broadcasting licence or a temporary broadcasting right
- the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, as to the television broadcast services it offers
What this law does
The Regulation is made under Article 24 and Article 37(1)(ö) of Law No. 6112 on the Establishment of Radio and Television Enterprises and Their Media Services. It covers the national terrestrial television services of private media service providers that hold a national terrestrial television broadcasting licence or a temporary broadcasting right, and the television services of the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation.
Article 5 requires accessible programmes, meaning programmes broadcast with at least one of detailed subtitles, sign language and audio description, to make up at least 10% of a provider's monthly broadcast time within six months, 25% within two years and 40% within five years, with at least two evening-band programmes a week broadcast as accessible programmes.
Article 6 requires a provider to broadcast one main news bulletin a day in sign language and to voice its weather and road, market and currency, and score screens. Article 8 requires the sign-language interpreter to fill at least one eighth of the screen, Article 9 requires public service announcements to carry at least one of the three translation types, and Article 10 requires the symbols of the protective symbol system to be voiced.
Articles 6, 9 and 10 entered into force three months after publication on and the other articles on the day of publication.
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