2. public provocation to commit terrorism within the meaning given by the Criminal Code. (2) When exercising the oversight powers thereof under this Article, the Council for Electronic Media shall take steps that are necessary and proportionate, shall respect the rights and shall observe principles set out in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union. Article 8a. (New, SG No. 109/2020, effective 22.12.2020) (1) Media service providers shall ensure that the content in the services thereof progressively becomes accessible to persons with a visual or hearing impairment. The means to achieve the accessibility of the content of audiovisual media services shall include, but need not be limited to, sign language, subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing, spoken subtitles, and audio description. Radio service providers shall provide programme services and programmes accessible to persons with a visual or hearing impairment via the Internet, mobile applications or other technical means available to the said providers within time limits and in manners specified in the action plans referred to in Item 1 of Paragraph (2). (2) Media service providers shall submit to the Council for Electronic Media: 1. action plans in respect of continuously and progressively making the services thereof more accessible to persons with disabilities for a three-year period; 2. annual reports on the progress made in making the services thereof accessible to persons with visual or hearing disabilities. (3) Media service providers shall ensure that emergency information, including public communications and announcements in natural disaster situations, which is made available to the public through audiovisual media services, is provided in a manner which is accessible to persons with disabilities. Emergency information should not be prevented from being made available to the public through audiovisual media services if in exceptional cases it might not be possible to provide emergency information in a manner that is accessible to persons with disabilities. (4) Public-service media service providers shall produce and provide for distribution news and current affairs programmes in accordance with technological developments and the economic capacity of the providers in a manner that such programmes are accessible to persons with disabilities. The action plans of public-service providers shall furthermore aim at subtitling all television programmes with language content like news, current affairs programmes, films, serials and other such, with the respective nonlinear on-demand services being progressively covered as well. The obligations of the BNR and the BNT to make the services provided thereby accessible shall be specified in the licences thereof. (5) Providers of media services within a national range and digital terrestrial broadcasting of television programme services with multi-subject or news programme type and an average daily share-of-audience exceeding 20 per cent and the television programme services of the BNT shall mandatorily ensure Bulgarian sign language interpretation in at least one of the newscasts thereof during the daypart between 19:00 and 23:30 hours. (6) On the Internet site thereof, the Council for Electronic Media shall keep up-to-date contact details for an administration employee designated by an order of the Chairperson of the Council for Electronic Media who has been tasked with providing information and receiving complaints regarding any accessibility issues. The Council for Electronic Media shall fulfil the obligations thereof in close cooperation with the organisations of persons with disabilities. (7) The Council for Electronic Media shall report to the European Commission on the implementation of the measures for making media services accessible to persons with disabilities. Article 8b. (New, SG No. 109/2020, effective 22.12.2020) The Council for Electronic Media may take measures for the appropriate prominence of audiovisual media services of general interest under defined general interest objectives such as media pluralism, freedom of speech and cultural diversity. Article 8c. (New, SG No. 109/2020, effective 22.12.2020) (1) The audiovisual media services provided by media service providers may not be overlaid for commercial purposes by third parties or modified without the explicit consent of the said providers. стр. 9 от 80