Law on the accessibility of goods and services, duties of manufacturers of goods

Article 6(1) of the Law requires a manufacturer placing goods on the market to ensure that they are designed and made in line with the accessibility requirements. The Law states that it includes legal norms arising from Directive (EU) 2019/882. Article 7(1) of the Directive requires manufacturers to ensure that the products they place on the market have been designed and manufactured in accordance with the applicable accessibility requirements.

Article 3(1) of the Law covers the goods it lists, among them consumer general-purpose computer hardware systems and their operating systems, payment terminals, ATMs, ticket machines, check-in machines, interactive self-service information terminals, consumer terminal equipment with interactive computing capability and e-readers. Article 7(1) makes internal production control the conformity assessment procedure, under which the manufacturer declares that the goods meet the Law.

Article 6(2) requires the manufacturer to prepare the technical documentation and, where the procedure shows that the goods meet the applicable requirements, to draw up a declaration of conformity and affix the CE marking. Article 7(5) requires the manufacturer to affix the CE marking to each individual item that meets the requirements of the Law.

Article 6(3) requires the manufacturer to keep the technical documentation and the declaration of conformity for five years after the goods are placed on the market. Article 6(4) requires a manufacturer of serially produced goods to establish control procedures that keep the goods in conformity and to take account of changes in the design or characteristics of the goods.

The law of 14 May 2026 deleted from Article 6(4) the words that tied the technical specifications to Regulation (EU) No 1025/2012. Article 6(5) requires the manufacturer to mark the goods with a type, batch or serial number or another identifying element. Article 6(6) requires the manufacturer to show its name or registered trademark, one address and contact details on the goods.

Article 6(7) requires the manufacturer to supply the goods with instructions for use and safety information in the state language. Article 6(8) requires a manufacturer that considers its goods do not meet the accessibility requirements to take corrective action at once, to withdraw them where necessary, to inform the market surveillance authority and to keep a register of non-conforming goods and related complaints.

Article 6(9) requires the manufacturer to give the market surveillance authority, on a reasoned request, the information and documentation it needs in the state language. Article 6(10) requires the manufacturer to cooperate with the authority, on its request, to remedy non-conformity of goods already on the market.

Article 6(11) treats an importer or distributor as a manufacturer where it places goods on the market under its own name or trademark or modifies goods so that their conformity may be affected. Article 7(2) requires the technical documentation to show, where the manufacturer applies the fundamental alteration or disproportionate burden provision of Article 13, that meeting the requirement would cause such alteration or burden.

Article 16(1) requires the declaration of conformity to state which accessibility requirements the fundamental alteration or disproportionate burden provision is applied to. Article 16(2) requires the declaration of conformity to be drawn up in the language of the Member State in which the goods are offered. Article 17(1) requires the CE marking to be affixed to the goods or their data plate, and to be easily visible, legible and indelible.

Article 15(1) presumes that goods which meet harmonised standards, or parts of them, published in the Official Journal of the European Union conform to the accessibility requirements those standards cover. Point 1 of the transitional provisions provides that the requirements do not apply to goods placed on the market up to 27 June 2025.

Article 4(2) of the Law on Conformity Assessment applies chapter III.1 of that Law to non-food goods for which requirements are set in legal acts, including European Union acts on goods accessibility requirements. Article 19(9) of that Law sets the fine for failing to ensure that goods meet the requirements of an act referred to in Article 4(2), or for breaching the rules on the circulation of goods, at 14 to 140 fine units for a natural person and 40 to 1,400 fine units for a legal person.

Article 19(10) sets the fine for placing on the market, offering or selling goods that do not meet the safety or essential requirements or technical parameters of such an act at 14 to 140 fine units for a natural person and 56 to 2,800 fine units for a legal person. Article 19(11) sets the fine for failing to maintain internal control processes that cause systematic non-conformity at 40 to 400 fine units for a natural person and 140 to 4,000 fine units for a legal person.

Article 16(2) of the Administrative Liability Law sets one fine unit at EUR 5. Article 20(1) of the Law on Conformity Assessment makes the Consumer Rights Protection Centre the authority that conducts the administrative offence proceedings for the fines in Article 19(1), (3), (7), (8), (9), (10) and (11). Article 1(1) point 18 defines the manufacturer as a private person that makes goods, or has them designed or made, and markets them under its own name or trademark.

Article 1(8) of the Administrative Procedure Law defines a private person as a natural person, a legal person governed by private law or an association of such persons. The law of 11 June 2026, in force from 10 July 2026, deleted Article 19(2) of the Law on Conformity Assessment and added paragraphs 6 to 11, among them the fines in paragraphs 9 to 11.

In the version in force from 14 March 2023 to 9 July 2026, Article 19(2) set a fine of 14 to 140 fine units for a natural person and 140 to 1,420 fine units for a legal person for placing on the market, offering or selling goods that do not meet the essential requirements or technical parameters set in normative acts.

Article 3(1) point 1 excludes from the operating systems covered the boot loader, the basic input/output system and other firmware needed at start-up or when the operating system is installed. Article 3(1) point 2 covers ATMs, ticket machines, check-in machines and interactive self-service information terminals intended for providing the services within the Law, other than terminals installed as integrated parts of vehicles, aircraft, ships or rolling stock.

Article 15(2) presumes that goods which meet technical specifications adopted by the European Commission in implementing acts conform to the accessibility requirements those specifications cover. Article 16(3) requires a single declaration of conformity covering every applicable act where several acts require one. Article 16(4) makes the manufacturer, by drawing up the declaration of conformity, responsible for the conformity of the goods with the Law. Article 17(2) requires the CE marking to be affixed before the goods are placed on the market.