SwedenPost- och telestyrelsens föreskrifter om vissa produkters tillgänglighet (Post and Telecom Authority regulations on the accessibility of certain products)
PTSFS 2024:5, Post- och telestyrelsens föreskrifter om vissa produkters tillgänglighet
In force since .
An accessibility requirements rule binding public and private bodies.
- Instrument type
- a regulation made under an act
What it requires
- As a manufacturer, assess conformity by internal production control and keep technical documentation with at least a general description of the product, the harmonized standards and technical specifications applied, the parts applied, and the solutions chosen where they were not applied; if you rely on section 7 of the Act, show in the documentation the fundamental alteration or disproportionate burden (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 3 to 6).
- Update your procedures when the product's design or characteristics, or the standards or specifications you cite in the EU declaration, change, and keep the EU declaration of conformity up to date, in Swedish, naming the Union acts concerned with a publication reference (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 7 to 9).
- Give the product a type, batch or serial number or other identifying mark, your contact details with a single address, and instructions and safety information in Swedish, on the product or, where its size or nature prevents it, on the packaging or in an accompanying document (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 10 to 12).
- As an importer, put your contact details in Swedish on the product (or on the packaging or an accompanying document) and supply instructions and safety information in Swedish (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 13 and 14).
- Give PTS in Swedish the information it asks for under section 22 of the Act, and keep the supplier and customer information of section 23 for five years (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 15 and 16).
- If you make a self-service terminal (a payment terminal, cash machine, ticketing or check-in machine, or interactive self-service information terminal), give it text-to-speech technology, personal headset use, multisensory warning and extendable response time, suitable contrast and tactile keys, an accessibility function that starts without prior activation, and hearing-aid compatibility where it uses sound (PTSFS 2024:5, s. 17; Directive (EU) 2019/882, Annex I, Section I, point 2(o)).
- If you make an e-reader, give it text-to-speech technology (PTSFS 2024:5, s. 18).
- If you make consumer terminal equipment for electronic communications services, support real-time text and total conversation where it has text or video capability, connect effectively to hearing technology and avoid interference with assistive devices; if it is for access to audiovisual media services, make the provider's accessibility components accessible (PTSFS 2024:5, ss. 19 and 20).
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Penalty structure
Section 39 of the Act sets the sanction fee (sanktionsavgift) at not less than SEK 10,000 and not more than SEK 10,000,000, determined by the seriousness and extent of the breach and the circumstances, reducible wholly or partly for special reasons, and payable to the State. The same range applies to a natural or a legal person, and the Act sets no turnover-based ceiling. No fee is decided in a minor case or where the breach underlies an application to impose a vite (sections 37 and 38). An order under sections 32 to 34 may also carry a vite (section 35), which the Vite Act (1985:206) sets at an amount likely to make the addressee comply, with no statutory ceiling.
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 10,000
- Currency
- SEK
- Fixed cap
- 10,000,000
Who enforces it
Enforcement body
The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (Post- och telestyrelsen, PTS), the market surveillance authority for products under section 25 of the Ordinance
What this law does
PTSFS 2024:5 is made under sections 5, 12, 13, 16 and 21 to 23 of the Ordinance and covers the conformity assessment procedure, technical documentation, EU declaration, information text, importer duties, language, supply-chain information and sector-specific requirements for products.
Section 4 requires the technical documentation to contain at least a general description of the product, the harmonized standards and technical specifications applied in whole or in part, the parts applied and descriptions of the solutions chosen where they were not applied.
Section 5 requires the technical documentation, where the manufacturer has applied sections 7 and 8 of the Act, to show that the accessibility requirements involve a fundamental alteration of the product's basic character or a disproportionate burden. Section 7 requires the manufacturer to update its procedures when the design or characteristics of the product change. Section 9 requires the EU declaration of conformity to state which Union acts are concerned and to give a publication reference.
Section 10 requires the traceability information to contain a type number, batch number, serial number or other identifying mark, on the product or, where its size or nature prevents it, on the packaging or in an accompanying document. Section 11 requires the manufacturer's contact details to be on the product with a single address where the manufacturer can be contacted, and to be available in Swedish. Section 12 requires the manufacturer's instructions and safety information to be in Swedish.
Section 13 requires the importer's contact details to be on the product, or where that is not possible on the packaging or in an accompanying document, and to be in Swedish. Section 14 requires the importer's instructions and safety information to be in Swedish. Section 15 requires the information given to PTS under section 22 of the Act to be in Swedish.
Section 2 defines self-service terminals as the products in section 3 points 2 to 4 of the Act, which are payment terminals, cash machines, ticketing and check-in machines, and interactive self-service information terminals.
Section 17 requires self-service terminals to have text-to-speech technology, allow personal headsets, warn the user through more than one sense when a response is required within a set time, allow the response time to be extended, have suitable contrast and tactile keys and controls, start an accessibility function without the user having to activate it first, and, where they use sound, be compatible with hearing aids, telecoils, cochlear implants and assistive devices.
Section 18 requires e-readers to have text-to-speech technology. Section 19 requires consumer terminal equipment used for electronic communications services to support real-time text and high-definition audio where it has text capability, total conversation including video at a resolution that allows sign language where it has video capability, effective wireless connection to hearing technology, and to avoid interference with assistive devices.
Section 20 requires consumer terminal equipment used for access to audiovisual media services to make the accessibility components the media service provider supplies accessible for user access, selection, control, personalization and transfer to assistive devices. Section 37 of the Act allows a market surveillance authority to order an economic operator to pay a sanction fee for breach of rules made under the sections it lists.
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