BrazilConsumer Defense Code, Accessible Information About Products and Services
Art. 6, parágrafo único, da Lei nº 8.078, de 11 de setembro de 1990 (Código de Defesa do Consumidor)
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding private bodies.
- Instrument type
- an act of a legislature
As of .
What it requires
- The Code names no technical standard: the sole paragraph of Article 6 requires the information to be accessible as regulation provides.
- Make the information you give about your products and services (quantity, characteristics, composition, quality, taxes, price and their risks) accessible to persons with disabilities (CDC Art. 6, III and sole paragraph).
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text, as of .
Who enforces it
Settledness
- As of
- Open questions
- Which regulation gives content to the sole paragraph of Article 6, which requires the information to be accessible "observado o disposto em regulamento" (as regulation provides)?
What this law does
Item III of Article 6 of the Consumer Defense Code makes adequate and clear information about the different products and services, with the correct specification of quantity, characteristics, composition, quality, taxes and price, and about the risks they present, a basic right of the consumer. The sole paragraph of Article 6, added by Article 100 of the Brazilian Inclusion Law, requires that information to be accessible to persons with disabilities, as regulation provides.
Under Article 56, breaches of the consumer defense rules are subject to administrative sanctions, among them a fine, suspension of the supply of a product or service, temporary suspension of activity, cancellation of a license, interdiction and administrative intervention, without prejudice to civil and criminal sanctions.
Under Article 57 the fine is graded by the gravity of the breach, the advantage obtained and the economic condition of the supplier, and is not less than two hundred and not more than three million times the value of the Fiscal Reference Unit (Ufir), or an equivalent index that replaces it. The sole paragraph took effect with the entry into force of the Brazilian Inclusion Law.
When LexLint raises it
When your app profile says your app ships a consumer interface.