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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)RecitalsChapter I General provisions (arts. 1-3)Article 1 Subject matterArticle 2 ScopeArticle 3 DefinitionsChapter II Accessibility requirements and free movement (arts. 4-6)Article 4 Accessibility requirementsArticle 5 Existing Union law in the field of passenger transportArticle 6 Free movementChapter III Obligations of economic operators dealing with products (arts. 7-12)Article 7 Obligations of manufacturersArticle 8 Authorised representativesArticle 9 Obligations of importersArticle 10 Obligations of distributorsArticle 11 Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributorsArticle 12 Identification of economic operators dealing with productsChapter IV Obligations of service providers (art. 13)Article 13 Obligations of service providersChapter V Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators (art. 14)Article 14 Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burdenChapter VI Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services (art. 15)Article 15 Presumption of conformityChapter VII Conformity of products and CE marking (arts. 16-18)Article 16 EU declaration of conformity of productsArticle 17 General principles of the CE marking of productsArticle 18 Rules and conditions for affixing the CE markingChapter VIII Market surveillance of products and Union safeguard procedure (arts. 19-22)Article 19 Market surveillance of productsArticle 20 Procedure at national level for dealing with products not complying with the applicable accessibility requirementsArticle 21 Union safeguard procedureArticle 22 Formal non-complianceChapter IX Compliance of services (art. 23)Article 23 Compliance of servicesChapter X Accessibility requirements in other Union acts (arts. 24-25)Article 24 Accessibility under other Union actsArticle 25 Harmonised standards and technical specifications for other Union actsChapter XI Delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions (arts. 26-35)Article 26 Exercise of the delegationArticle 27 Committee procedureArticle 28 Working GroupArticle 29 EnforcementArticle 30 PenaltiesArticle 31 TranspositionArticle 32 Transitional measuresArticle 33 Report and reviewArticle 34Article 35Annex I Accessibility requirements for products and servicesAnnex 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 servicesAnnex I, Section V Specific accessibility requirements related to the answering of emergency communications to the single European emergency number '112' by the most appropriate PSAPAnnex 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 criteriaAnnex II Indicative non-binding examples of possible solutions that contribute to meeting the accessibility requirements in Annex IAnnex III Accessibility requirements for the purpose of Article 4(4) concerning the built environment where the services under the scope of this Directive are providedAnnex IV Conformity assessment procedure - productsAnnex V Information on services meeting accessibility requirementsAnnex VI Criteria for assessment of disproportionate burdenDone at
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Version status: Entered into force | Document consolidation status: No known changes
Version date: 27 June 2019 - onwards
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Article 6 Free movement

Member States shall not impede, for reasons related to accessibility requirements, the making available on the market in their territory of products or the provision of services in their territory that comply with this Directive.

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