Is a securities firm, in the Netherlands

Wet op het financieel toezicht art. 4:22.0a, ingevoegd bij Implementatiewet toegankelijkheidsvoorschriften producten en diensten (Stb. 2024, 87), art. VI, met Besluit Gedragstoezicht financiële ondernemingen Wft art. 32ac (Stb. 2024, 204) · Read the law's page

• If you are a provider of credit, a bank, an investment firm, a payment service provider or an electronic money institution that supplies banking services to consumers, ensure those services meet the accessibility requirements in Annex I, Sections III and IV(e), to Directive (EU) 2019/882 (Wet op het financieel toezicht Art. 4:22.0a(1)).
• Have procedures that ensure your banking services meet those requirements (Besluit Gedragstoezicht financiële ondernemingen Art. 32ac(1)).
• If a banking service does not conform, take measures at once to bring it into line and notify the Netherlands Authority for the Financial Markets at once, stating the nature of the non-conformity and every measure taken (Art. 32ac(2)).
• If you have fewer than ten employees and an annual turnover or balance sheet total of at most EUR 2 million, Article 4:22.0a(1) does not apply to you (Art. 4:22.0a(3)).
• If you rely on the limit for a significant change in the nature of the banking service or a disproportionate burden, comply with the obligations in Article 14(3) to (6) and (8) of Directive (EU) 2019/882 (Wet op het financieel toezicht Art. 4:22.0a(5)).
• Include in your general terms and conditions, or an equivalent document, information showing that the banking service meets the accessibility requirements and that conformity is secured by internal procedures and their supervision, following Annex V to the Directive; make that information available to the public in writing and orally in a way that is accessible to persons with a disability, and keep it for as long as the service is offered (Besluit Gedragstoezicht financiële ondernemingen Wft, Art. 49.0c(1) to (3)).
• From 25 June 2026, Article 4:22.0a does not apply to the website and app content Article 2(4) of the Directive lists: pre-recorded time-based media and office file formats published before 28 June 2025, online maps where essential information is given accessibly for maps meant for navigation, third-party content you neither fund, develop nor control, and archives not updated or edited after 28 June 2025 (Wet op het financieel toezicht Art. 4:22.0a(6), inserted by Staatsblad 2026, 153).
• Service contracts concluded before 28 June 2025 may run unchanged until they expire, and at the latest until five years after that date; you may keep providing your services until 27 June 2030 using products you lawfully used before 28 June 2030 to provide similar services (Implementatiewet toegankelijkheidsvoorschriften producten en diensten, Art. VIII(1) and (2)). Self-service terminals lawfully used to provide services before 28 June 2025 may stay in use until the end of their economic life, and for no more than 20 years after they entered use (Art. VIII(3)).