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European Accessibility Act In force since 17 April 2019

Directive (EU) 2019/882 on the accessibility requirements for products and services
32019L0882 · official text on EUR-Lex

Articles

Chapter I General provisions

• Article 1 — Subject matter
• Article 2 — Scope
• Article 3 — Definitions

Chapter II Accessibility requirements and free movement

• Article 4 — Accessibility requirements
• Article 5 — Existing Union law in the field of passenger transport
• Article 6 — Free movement

Chapter III Obligations of economic operators dealing with products

• Article 7 — Obligations of manufacturers
• Article 8 — Authorised representatives
• Article 9 — Obligations of importers
• Article 10 — Obligations of distributors
• Article 11 — Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributors
• Article 12 — Identification of economic operators dealing with products

Chapter IV Obligations of service providers

• Article 13 — Obligations of service providers

Chapter V Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators

• Article 14 — Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden

Chapter VI Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services

• Article 15 — Presumption of conformity

Chapter VII Conformity of products and CE marking

• Article 16 — EU declaration of conformity of products
• Article 17 — General principles of the CE marking of products
• Article 18 — Rules and conditions for affixing the CE marking

Chapter VIII Market surveillance of products and Union safeguard procedure

• Article 19 — Market surveillance of products
• Article 20 — Procedure at national level for dealing with products not complying with the applicable accessibility requirements
• Article 21 — Union safeguard procedure
• Article 22 — Formal non-compliance

Chapter IX Compliance of services

• Article 23 — Compliance of services

Chapter X Accessibility requirements in other Union acts

• Article 24 — Accessibility under other Union acts
• Article 25 — Harmonised standards and technical specifications for other Union acts

Chapter XI Delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions

• Article 26 — Exercise of the delegation
• Article 27 — Committee procedure
• Article 28 — Working Group
• Article 29 — Enforcement
• Article 30 — Penalties
• Article 31 — Transposition
• Article 32 — Transitional measures
• Article 33 — Report and review
• Article 34
• Article 35 — This Directive is addressed to the Member States.