Section 3: Exception for people with disabilities

The publisher shall transmit the digital file of a work to the Bibliothèque nationale de France within forty-five days of a request from the latter.

The legal entities and establishments mentioned in 1° of article L. 122-5-1 transmit to the Bibliothèque nationale de France the files of adapted documents in digital form that they have produced as soon as they make them available to the disabled persons mentioned in 7° of Article L. 122-5. With regard to their technical characteristics, the costs of their preservation and their use, the Bibliothèque nationale de France selects, from…

The Bibliothèque nationale de France shall give an annual account, in a report to the minister responsible for culture and the minister responsible for disabled people, of the conditions for selecting, conserving and making available files of adapted documents transmitted by the legal entities and establishments mentioned in 1° of Article L. 122-5-1 as well as the conditions for depositing and making available digital files deposited by publishers. This report…

For the application of the first paragraph of b of 2° of Article L. 122-5-1, the documents mentioned in article D. 314-128 of the Education Code are considered to be school books subject to the obligation to be deposited with the Bibliothèque nationale de France.