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Annex 1 - Accessibility requirements for products and services

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Annex 1 - Accessibility requirements for products and services

Section I – General accessibility requirements related to all products covered by this directive in accordance with Article 2(1)
Section II – Accessibility requirements related to products in Article 2(1), except for the self-service terminals referred to in Article 2(1)(b)
Section III – General accessibility requirements related to all services covered by this Directive in accordance with Article 2(2)
Section IV – Additional accessibility requirements related to specific services
Section V – Specific accessibility requirements related to the answering of emergency communications to the single European emergency number ‘112’ by the most appropriate PSAP
Section VI – Accessibility requirements for features, elements or functions of products and services in accordance with Article 24(2)
Section VII – Functional performance criteria

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European Accessibility Act

  • Chapter 1 (Art. 1 – 3) – General provisions
    • Art. 1 EAA – Subject matter
    • Art. 2 EAA – Scope
    • Art. 3 EAA – Definitions
  • Chapter 2 (Art. 4 – 6) – Accessibility requirements and free movement
    • Art. 4 EAA – Accessibility requirements
    • Art. 5 EAA – Existing Union law in the field of passenger transport
    • Art. 6 EAA – Free movement
  • Chapter 3 (Art. 7 – 12) – Obligations of economic operators dealing with products
    • Art. 7 EAA – Obligations of manufacturers
    • Art. 8 EAA – Authorised representatives
    • Art. 9 EAA – Obligations of importers
    • Art. 10 EAA – Obligations of distributors
    • Art. 11 EAA – Cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply to importers and distributors
    • Art. 12 EAA – Identification of economic operators dealing with products
  • Chapter 4 (Art. 13) – Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators
    • Art. 13 EAA – Obligations of service providers
  • Chapter 5 (Art. 14) – Fundamental alteration of products or services and disproportionate burden to economic operators
    • Art. 14 EAA – Fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden
  • Chapter 6 (Art. 15) – Harmonised standards and technical specifications of products and services
    • Art. 15 EAA – Presumption of conformity
  • Chapter 7 (Art. 16 – 18) – Conformity of products and CE marking
    • Art. 16 EAA – EU declaration of conformity of products
    • Art. 17 EAA – General principles of the CE marking of products
    • Art. 18 EAA – Rules and conditions for affixing the CE marking
  • Chapter 8 (Art. 19 – 22) – Market surveillance of products and Union safeguard procedure
    • Art. 19 EAA – Market surveillance of products
    • Art. 20 EAA – Procedure at national level for dealing with products not complying with the applicable accessibility requirements
    • Art. 21 EAA – Union safeguard procedure
    • Art. 22 EAA – Formal non-compliance
  • Chapter 9 – (Art. 23) – Compliance of services
    • Art. 23 EAA – Compliance of services
  • Chapter 10 – (Art. 24 -25) – Accessibility requirements in other Union acts
    • Art. 24 EAA – Accessibility under other Union acts
    • Art. 25 EAA – Harmonised standards and technical specifications for other Union acts
  • Chapter 11 (Art. 26 – 35) – Delegated acts, implementing powers and final provisions
    • Art. 26 EAA – Exercise of the delegation
    • Art. 27 EAA – Committee procedure
    • Art. 28 EAA – Working Group
    • Art. 29 EAA – Enforcement
    • Art. 30 EAA – Penalties
    • Art. 31 EAA – Transposition
    • Art. 32 EAA – Transitional measures
    • Art. 33 EAA – Report and review
    • Art. 34 EAA – Entry into force and application
    • Art. 35 EAA – Directive addressed to the Member States

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