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Published date: 7 June 2019

Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 April 2019 on the accessibility requirements for products and services (Text with EEA relevance) (European Accessibility Act)

	Recitals
	Chapter I General provisions (arts. 1-3)
	Article 1 Subject matter
	Article 2 Scope
	Article 3 Definitions
	Chapter II Accessibility requirements and free movement (arts. 4-6)
	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 (arts. 7-12)
	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 (art. 13)
	Article 13 Obligations of service providers
	Chapter V Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators (art. 14)
	Article 14 Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden
	Chapter VI Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services (art. 15)
	Article 15 Presumption of conformity
	Chapter VII Conformity of products and CE marking (arts. 16-18)
	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 (arts. 19-22)
	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 (art. 23)
	Article 23 Compliance of services
	Chapter X Accessibility requirements in other Union acts (arts. 24-25)
	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 (arts. 26-35)
	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
	Annex I Accessibility requirements for products and services
	Annex I, Section I General accessibility requirements related to all products covered by this directive in accordance with Article 2(1)
	Annex I, Section II Accessibility requirements related to products in Article 2(1), except for the self-service terminals referred to in Article 2(1)(b)
	Annex I, Section III General accessibility requirements related to all services covered by this Directive in accordance with Article 2(2)
	Annex I, Section IV Additional accessibility requirements related to specific services
	Annex I, Section V Specific accessibility requirements related to the answering of emergency communications to the single European emergency number '112' by the most appropriate PSAP
	Annex I, Section VI Accessibility requirements for features, elements or functions of products and services in accordance with Article 24(2)
	Annex I, Section VII Functional performance criteria
	Annex II Indicative non-binding examples of possible solutions that contribute to meeting the accessibility requirements in Annex I
	Annex III Accessibility requirements for the purpose of Article 4(4) concerning the built environment where the services under the scope of this Directive are provided
	Annex IV Conformity assessment procedure - products
	Annex V Information on services meeting accessibility requirements
	Annex VI Criteria for assessment of disproportionate burden
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