DenmarkExecutive Order on the duty to keep information on the supply chain when selling accessible products
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
What it requires
- If you make, import or distribute a product covered by section 1(1) of the Accessibility Act, be able for 5 years to give the information on every trader that supplied you with the product and every trader you supplied it to, and give it to the control authority on request (Order 823 of 2022, § 2; Act § 33(1)).
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If you get it wrong
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Criminal exposure note
Section 3(1) punishes a breach of section 2 with a fine (bøde), unless a stricter penalty is incurred under other legislation, and section 3(2) allows legal persons to be held criminally liable; the Order states no amount for the fine.
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
Sikkerhedsstyrelsen (Danish Safety Technology Authority), to which section 2(2) of the Order has the information given; since it is part of the Danish Business Authority (Erhvervsstyrelsen)
What it reaches
Instrument type
a regulation made under an act
Applicability criteria
- As of
- Combinator
- Any of
- Criteria
- a consumer computer hardware system for general purposes, or an operating system for such a system, as products within section 1(1), item 1
- a payment terminal (section 1(1), item 2)
- a cash machine, ticketing machine, check-in self-service machine or interactive self-service terminal that supplies information, other than a terminal installed as an integral part of a vehicle, aircraft, ship or rolling stock, intended for services covered by the Act (section 1(1), item 3)
- consumer terminal equipment with interactive computing capability used for electronic communications services (section 1(1), item 4)
- consumer terminal equipment with interactive computing capability used to access audiovisual media services (section 1(1), item 5)
- an e-reader (section 1(1), item 6)
What this law does
Executive Order 823 of is made under sections 33(2) and 57(2) of the Act on accessibility requirements for products and services. The Order implements parts of Directive (EU) 2019/882, the European Accessibility Act. Section 1 applies the Order to the products covered by section 1(1) of the Act and to the traders who deal in them.
Section 2(1) requires a trader dealing in those products to be able, for a period of 5 years, to give information on every other trader that supplied it with a product or that it supplied with a product. Article 12(2) of the Directive requires economic operators to be able to present that information for five years after they were supplied with the product and for five years after they supplied it.
Section 2(2) requires the information to be given to Sikkerhedsstyrelsen on request under section 33(1) of the Act. The remarks to bill L 8 of the 2026-27 session state that Sikkerhedsstyrelsen merged with the Danish Business Authority (Erhvervsstyrelsen) on and is now part of it. Section 3(1) punishes a breach of section 2 with a fine, unless a stricter penalty is incurred under other legislation.
Section 3(2) allows companies and other legal persons to be held criminally liable in accordance with chapter 5 of the Penal Code. Section 4(1) brought the Order into force on , and section 4(2) applies it to products placed on the market from .
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