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Argentina: Resolution No. 570/2022 ENACOM – Content accessibility

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In brief

Resolution No. 570/2022 (“Resolution“), issued by the National Communications Authority (ENACOM), was published in the Official Gazette on 31 March 2022. The Resolution establishes that news signals that are mandatory for the subscription of television services must include additional visual communication media that uses sign language and closed captioning.

In depth 

The main purpose of the Resolution is to make content more accessible to people with sensory disabilities.

For such purpose, it is determined that ICT licensees registered with ENACOM to provide subscription services by physical and/or radio-electric and satellite link must incorporate sign language translation and closed captioning in the news signals of mandatory inclusion.

The incorporation must be made following the term established in the Progressive Scheme for the Implementation of Additional Media (“Scheme”) approved under Annex I of the Resolution. The Scheme establishes that within 180 days of the entry into force of the Resolution, the obligated parties must incorporate the following in the news signals of mandatory inclusion:

  • At least three hours of subtitled programming, between 7 pm and 11 pm. After the 180-day term, it shall be progressively incorporated, in successive periods of 180 days, three hours a day of subtitled programming until the totality of the programming is completed
  • At least one hour per day of programming translated into sign language, from 6 am to 10 am and 7 pm to 11 pm, respectively. After the 180-day term, it shall be progressively incorporated, in successive periods of 180 days, one hour per day of programming translated into sign language until the time slot from 6 am to 10 am is completed, and one hour per day of programming translated into sign language until the central time slot (i.e., 7 pm to 11 pm) is completed

Any breaches of the Scheme or the lack of incorporation of the additional media referred to above by the obliged parties will give rise to the application of the penalties provided for in Title VI of the Audiovisual Media Law No. 26,522.

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Guillermo Cervio is a partner in Baker & McKenzie´s Buenos Aires office. With more than 25 years of experience, he has been consistently recognized as a foremost practitioner in his field. He served as the coordinator of the Information Technology & Communications Group during from 2008 to 2016. Guillermo has authored books and articles on legal matters. He has been awarded for his book “Derecho de las Telecomunicaciones” by the National Academy of Law (Mención de honor, 1998) and Austral University (Premio tesina,1997) and for his paper filed in the IX National Congress on Corporate Law (Tucumán, 2004).He has been a professor in universities including the University of Buenos Aires, Austral University, Palermo University, Catholic University and CEMA. Guillermo has been awarded with Folsom fellowship granted by Center for American and International Law, Dallas, US in 2003.

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Martín Roth is a partner in the M&A, Real Estate and TMT practice groups in Baker McKenzie's Buenos Aires office. Martín has more than 13 years of extensive transactional domestic and international experience, focusing on the real estate and TMT industries. Prior to joining Baker McKenzie, he worked as a trainee lawyer on the Corporate, Banking/Finance and Litigation areas with a local law firm in Argentina. From 2007 to 2012, he worked in Baker McKenzie's Buenos Aires office. From 2013 to 2016, he worked as an independent attorney at another law firm. Martín rejoined the Buenos Aires office in 2016 and was named partner in July 2019.

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Valentina Salas is an Attorney at Law in Baker McKenzie Buenos Aires office.

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