Accessibility statement

The Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic (hereinafter referred to as "the Office") is interested in ensuring the accessibility of its website in accordance with Act No. 95/2019 Coll. on Information Technologies in Public Administration and the relevant implementing regulations within the scope of the conditions under Directive (EU) 2016/2012.

This accessibility statement applies to the website www.indprop.gov.sk

Compliance status

This website is in partial compliance with Act No 95/2019 Coll. on Information Technology in Public Administration and the relevant implementing regulations to the extent of the conditions under Directive (EU) 2016/2012 with respect to the elements of non-compliance listed below.

Inaccessible content

The content listed below is not accessible for the following reasons:

Non-compliance with Directive (EU) 2016/2012 on the accessibility of websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies:

Text documents are provided using graphics, as scanned PDFs, these are documents delivered to the Authority by conventional mail (Public Decrees, Contracts). The Authority does not create or annotate these documents and does not have a source of relevant texts in electronic form, therefore it publishes the information in the only available form as scanned texts. /Success criterion 1.1.1 Non-textual content/. Images do not contain alternative text (ALT) - /Success Criterion 1.1.1 Non-text link/. Not all information that moves, flashes, scrolls, or auto-updates is detectable to an indisposed person in their reaction time. /Success Criterion 2.2.2 Pause, stop, hide/. The page does not always have a corresponding language defined in the header. /Success Criterion 3.1.1 Page language/. Color is used in some cases as the only visual means of providing information, indicating an action, eliciting a response, or distinguishing a visual element. Benchmark 1.4.1 Use of colour].

Non-compliance with Slovak generally binding legislation governing accessibility standards for websites and mobile applications:

Information in the document is provided by the use of graphics (Decree No. 78/2020 Z.z, § 18). Text documents are in RTF, DOC or DOCX format (Decree No. 78/2020 Coll., § 19). Editable published text documents for download shall not be provided simultaneously in DOCX and ODT formats (Decree No. 78/2020 Coll., § 19 ). Some links are not accompanied by information on the file format. The user is not informed that the hyperlink leads to a file of a different format, e.g. RTF, DOCX, XLS, PDF, ZIP, etc. (Decree No 78/2020 Coll., § 19 ).

Drawing up this accessibility statement

This declaration has been prepared on 1.6.2022. The evaluation of the compliance of the website with the requirements of Act No. 95/2019 Coll. on Information Technology in Public Administration and the relevant implementing regulations within the scope of the conditions under Directive (EU) 2016/2012 has been carried out by self-assessment. The declaration was last checked on 12.8.2022.

Feedback and contact information

In case of any problems with the accessibility and content of the website, contact us at the e-mail address infocentrumindprop.gov.sk. The administrator of the website is the Industrial Property Office of the Slovak Republic and its operator is the company ELET s.r.o..

Enforcement procedure

In the event of unsatisfactory responses to suggestions or requests sent in the framework of feedback to a public sector body in accordance with Article 7(1)(b) of the Directive of the European Parliament, you can contact the enforcement body in charge of enforcing the Directive, which is the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Slovak Republic for Investment and Informatisation at the following e-mail address: standard@vicepremier.gov.sk.