European Accessibility Act (2019/882)

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Recitals

Chapter I – General provisions (Art. 1-3)
Art. 1Accessibility Requirements Directive - Subject matter
Art. 2Accessibility Requirements Directive - Scope
Art. 3Accessibility Requirements Directive - Definitions
Chapter II – Accessibility requirements and free movement (Art. 4-6)
Art. 4Accessibility Requirements Directive - Accessibility requirements
Art. 5 Accessibility Requirements Directive - Existing Union law in the field of passenger transport
Art. 6Accessibility Requirements Directive - Free movement
Chapter III – Obligations of economic operators dealing with products (Art. 7-12)
Art. 7Accessibility Requirements Directive - Obligations of manufacturers
Art. 8Accessibility Requirements Directive - Authorised representatives
Art. 9Accessibility Requirements Directive - Obligations of importers
Art. 10Accessibility Requirements Directive - Obligations of distributors
Art. 11Accessibility Requirements Directive - Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributors
Art. 12Accessibility Requirements Directive - Identification of economic operators dealing with products
Chapter IV – Obligations of service providers (Art. 13)
Art. 13Accessibility Requirements Directive - Obligations of service providers
Chapter V – Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators (Art. 14)
Art. 14Accessibility Requirements Directive - Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden
Chapter VI – Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services (Art. 15)
Art. 15Accessibility Requirements Directive - Presumption of conformity
Chapter VII – Conformity of products and CE marking (Art. 16-18)
Art. 16Accessibility Requirements Directive - EU declaration of conformity of products
Art. 17Accessibility Requirements Directive - General principles of the CE marking of products
Art. 18Accessibility Requirements Directive - Rules and conditions for affixing the CE marking
Chapter VIII – Market surveillance of products and Union safeguard procedure (Art. 19-22)
Art. 19Accessibility Requirements Directive - Market surveillance of products
Art. 20Accessibility Requirements Directive - Procedure at national level for dealing with products not complying with the applicable accessibility requirements
Art. 21Accessibility Requirements Directive - Union safeguard procedure
Art. 22Accessibility Requirements Directive - Formal non-compliance
Chapter IX – Compliance of services (Art. 23)
Art. 23Accessibility Requirements Directive - Compliance of services
Chapter X – Accessibility requirements in other Union acts (Art. 24-25)
Art. 24Accessibility Requirements Directive - Accessibility under other Union acts
Art. 25Accessibility Requirements Directive - Harmonised standards and technical specifications for other Union acts
Chapter XI – Delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions (Art. 26-35)
Art. 26Accessibility Requirements Directive - Exercise of the delegation
Art. 27Accessibility Requirements Directive - Committee procedure
Art. 28Accessibility Requirements Directive - Working Group
Art. 29Accessibility Requirements Directive - Enforcement
Art. 30Accessibility Requirements Directive - Penalties
Art. 31Accessibility Requirements Directive - Transposition
Art. 32 Accessibility Requirements Directive - Transitional measures
Art. 33Accessibility Requirements Directive - Report and review
Art. 34Accessibility Requirements Directive -
Art. 35Accessibility Requirements Directive -
Annexes
Art. Annex I Accessibility Requirements Directive - Accessibility requirements for products and services
Art. Annex II Accessibility Requirements Directive - Indicative non-binding examples of possible solutions that contribute to meeting the accessibility requirements in Annex I
Art. Annex IIIAccessibility Requirements Directive - Accessibility requirements for the purpose of Article 4(4) concerning the built environment where the services under the scope of this Directive are provided
Art. Annex IVAccessibility Requirements Directive - Conformity assessment procedure – products
Art. Annex VAccessibility Requirements Directive - Information on services meeting accessibility requirements
Art. Annex VIAccessibility Requirements Directive - Criteria for assessment of disproportionate burden

European Accessibility Act (2019/882)

Status: Adopted and in force since the 27^th of June 2019. National measures to implement the directive were to have been adopted by the 28^th of June 2022 and are to apply from the 28^th of June 2025.

EUR-Lex-link: The adopted and published version, including other language versions, can also be found here.

Full name: Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services.

Type: Directive.

Objective and key elements:

Aims to harmonise accessibility requirements for certain products and services in the EU, such as computers and smartphones, payment terminals, consumer banking and e-commerce.
Establishes obligations on manufactures, importers, distributors and service providers to ensure that products and services covered by the directive fulfil the accessibility requirements in the directive.
National market surveillance authorities are tasked with, among other tasks, ensuring compliance of products and services with the accessibility requirements.

Relevant to: Manufacturers, importers, distributors and service providers of products or services covered by the directive.

Swedish transposition: Please see Act on Accessibility of Certain Products and Services (applicable from the 28th of June 2025)

(Last updated 27 October 2025)

European Accessibility Act (2019/882)

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