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European Accessibility Act (EAA)
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Table of contents
| Chapter 1 – General provisions | |
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| Article 1 – Subject matter | |
| Article 2 – Scope | |
| Article 3 – Definitions |
| Chapter 2 – Accessibility requirements and free movement | |
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| Article 4 – Accessibility requirements | |
| Article 5 – Existing Union law in the field of passenger transport | |
| Article 6 – Free movement |
| Chapter 4 – Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators | |
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| Article 13 – Obligations of service providers |
| Chapter 5 – Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators | |
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| Article 14 – Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden |
| Chapter 6 – Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services | |
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| Article 15 – Presumption of conformity |
| Chapter 7 – Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services | |
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| 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 8 – Market surveillance of products and Union safeguard procedure | |
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| 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 9 – Compliance of services | |
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| Article 23 – Compliance of services |
| Chapter 10 – Accessibility requirements in other Union acts | |
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| Article 24 – Accessibility under other Union acts | |
| Article 25 – Harmonised standards and technical specifications for other Union acts |
| ANNEX II – INDICATIVE NON-BINDING EXAMPLES OF POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO MEETING THE ACCESSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS IN ANNEX I | |
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| Section I – Examples related to general accessibility requirements for all products covered by this directive in accordance with article 2(1) | |
| Section II – Examples related to accessibility requirements for products in article 2(1), except for the self-service terminals referred to in article 2(1)(b) |
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| Section III – Examples related to general accessibility requirements for all services covered by this directive in accordance with article 2(2) |
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| Section IV – Examples related to additional accessibility requirements for specific services |
| ANNEX III | |
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| 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 | |
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| Conformity assessment procedure – products |
| ANNEX V | |
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| Information on services meeting accessibility requirements |
| ANNEX VI | |
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| Criteria for assessment of disproportionate burden |
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