Government Regulation setting technical accessibility requirements for products (consumer computers and operating systems, self-service terminals, consumer terminal equipment for electronic communications and audiovisual media, e-readers)

Government Regulation 89/2026 applies to the designated products it lists, namely general-purpose consumer computer hardware systems and their operating systems, self-service terminals (payment terminals, ATMs, ticketing machines, check-in machines and interactive self-service information terminals), consumer terminal equipment with interactive computing capability used for electronic communications services or for access to audiovisual media services, and e-readers.

Article 2(1) of the Directive lists the same groups of products when they are placed on the market after 28 June 2025. Section 3 allows an economic operator to place on the market or put into service only a designated product that meets the accessibility requirements of Annex 1, Section I, and for computers and operating systems, terminal equipment and e-readers also Section II.

Government Regulation 282/2023 set the technical accessibility requirements for products from 28 June 2025 until 29 May 2026. Section 18 of Government Regulation 89/2026 repeals Government Regulation 282/2023. Section 19 of Government Regulation 89/2026 sets 30 May 2026 as its commencement day.

Section 5(1) obliges the manufacturer to draw up the technical documentation, ensure the conformity assessment, issue the EU declaration of conformity and affix the CE marking before placing the product on the market or putting it into service, in addition to the duties of Act 56/2018. Footnote 16 names the manufacturer duties of Act 56/2018 that apply as well, namely section 5(1)(a) to (e), (g) and (i) to (o).

Section 5(2) obliges the manufacturer to keep the declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for at least five years and make them available on request, to keep a register of complaints and of non-conforming products, and to keep for five years the identity of the operators that supplied it and that it supplied.

Section 6 lets the manufacturer mandate an authorised representative, who keeps the declaration of conformity and the technical documentation for five years, makes them available to the authority and keeps for five years the identity of the operators supplied and supplying.

Footnote 20 adds to the authorised representative the duties of section 6(2)(b) and (c) of Act 56/2018, to give the authority on a reasoned request the information and technical documentation needed to show conformity and to cooperate on any action to eliminate a risk.

Section 7 forbids an importer to place a designated product on the market or put it into service where the manufacturer has not done the conformity assessment or where the importer believes the product does not conform, and obliges the importer to inform the manufacturer and the authorities, keep a copy of the declaration of conformity for five years, make the technical documentation available on request, keep a complaints register and keep trader identity data for five years.

Footnote 23 adds to the importer the duties of section 7(1) and (2)(a) to (c), (f), (g) and (i) of Act 56/2018.

Section 7(2) of Act 56/2018 obliges the importer to put its business name or trademark and its address on the product before placing it on the market, to ensure instructions and safety information in the state language, to keep storage and transport from affecting conformity, to take corrective action and withdraw or recall a non-conforming product, to inform the manufacturer and the authorities of a risk, and to give the authority information and documentation on a reasoned request.

Section 8 forbids a distributor to make a designated product available where the manufacturer has not affixed the CE marking or where the distributor believes the product does not conform, and obliges the distributor to inform the manufacturer or importer and the authorities, keep a copy of the declaration of conformity for five years, make the technical documentation available on request, keep a complaints register and keep trader identity data for five years.

Footnote 25 adds to the distributor the duties of section 8(1) and (2)(a) to (d) of Act 56/2018. Section 8(1) of Act 56/2018 forbids the distributor to make available a product that does not meet the essential requirements, whose manufacturer did not issue the declaration of conformity, mark it or give its identification, name, address and instructions, whose importer did not put its name and address on it, or that lacks its accompanying documentation.

Section 8(2) of Act 56/2018 obliges the distributor to keep storage and transport from affecting conformity, to take corrective action and withdraw or recall a non-conforming product, to inform the manufacturer or importer and the authorities of a risk, and to give the authority information and documentation on a reasoned request.

Section 9 extends the manufacturer's duties to an importer or distributor that places a product on the market under its own name or trademark or modifies it in a way that may affect conformity. Section 10 presumes that a product, or a feature, element or function of it, that meets a harmonised technical standard or a technical specification meets the accessibility requirements that the standard or specification covers.

Section 11 prescribes the internal production control procedure of Annex 3 for assessing the conformity of a designated product. Section 12(3) requires the EU declaration of conformity to state to which accessibility requirements section 14 was applied. Section 12(2) provides that the requirements on technical documentation must not impose a disproportionate burden on microenterprises and small and medium-sized enterprises.

Section 14(1) applies the requirements only to the extent that compliance does not need a significant change that alters the basic nature of the product and does not impose a disproportionate burden under Annex 4 on the economic operator. Section 1(1)(b) names the manufacturer, the authorised representative, the importer and the distributor as the economic operators whose rights and duties the Regulation sets.

Section 14(2) obliges the economic operator to assess whether the defence applies and to keep the result and its documentation for five years from the last making available on the market or putting into service, and to give the authority a copy on request. Section 14(3) relieves an economic operator that is a microenterprise of documenting the assessment, though it must give the authority on request the information needed to assess the conditions.

Section 14(4) denies the disproportionate-burden defence to an economic operator that took funds from sources other than its own for improving the accessibility of the product. Section 14(5) obliges an economic operator that does not apply a requirement on that ground to notify the authority, or the authority of the Member State where the product is placed on the market, in writing, and exempts microenterprises from that notice.

Section 2(h) defines a microenterprise by headcount and by annual turnover or annual balance sheet total. Section 16 lets a service provider keep using a self-service terminal that does not meet the requirements and that it used before 28 June 2025 for similar services until the end of its life, but not longer than 20 years from the start of its use.

Article 32(2) of the Directive lets Member States allow that use for the economically useful life of the terminal, but no longer than 20 years after its entry into use. Section 15(1) applies a special regulation to the supervision of designated products under the Regulation and of the economic operator's duties. That special regulation is sections 26(a), 27 and 28 of Act 56/2018.

Section 26(a) of Act 56/2018 makes the Slovak Trade Inspection a market surveillance authority for designated products to the extent set by special regulations. Footnote 46 names section 9 of Act 351/2022 among the provisions that set the extent of the Trade Inspection's supervision.

Section 27(1) of Act 56/2018 lets the authority carry out the activities of the special regulation, require the economic operator to take corrective action, require identification data, documentation and information, take samples, temporarily ban making a product available, ban or restrict it and order its withdrawal or recall, order the economic operator to warn of risks, check corrective action and fine.

Footnote 64 names Articles 11, 14 to 20, 25, 26 and 28 of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 as the activities that section 27(1)(a) lets the authority carry out.

Article 14(4) of Regulation (EU) 2019/1020 gives a market surveillance authority at least the powers to require documents, technical specifications and data including access to embedded software, to require supply-chain information and information on the ownership of websites, to carry out unannounced on-site inspections, to enter premises, land and means of transport, to start investigations of its own motion, to require and to take corrective action including prohibiting, restricting, withdrawing or recalling a product, to impose penalties, to acquire samples under a cover identity and reverse-engineer them, and, where no other effective means are available against a serious risk, to require the removal of content from an online interface or the display of a warning on it, or the restriction of access to it.

Section 27(4) of Act 56/2018 lets an economic operator lodge written objections against a measure of section 27(1)(d) to (j) within three days, without suspensive effect, and has the authority decide them within five days with no further remedy. Section 27a of Act 56/2018 lets the Slovak Trade Inspection order the provider of an online marketplace that offers a non-conforming designated product to remove the illegal content, disable access to it or display a warning to consumers.

Section 27(3) obliges the Trade Inspection, where an economic operator applies the provisions on fundamental alteration and disproportionate burden, to check that the criteria and the essential requirements of special regulations were applied correctly. Footnotes 66b and 66c name section 14 and Annex 4 of Government Regulation 89/2026 as the special regulations checked.

Section 27(6) obliges the economic operator to allow the supervision, give access to products and documents, give copies and information on origin, take corrective action, pay the cost of samples and tests where non-conformity is shown, and allow a product to be unpacked.

Section 28(2) requires the authority to fine from 200 to 200,000 euro an operator that makes a designated product available without a conformity assessment, cannot show one, makes available a product whose assessment does not meet the requirements, or fails to comply with a measure under section 27(1)(d) to (j). Section 28(3) requires a fine from 100 to 10,000 euro for breach of any other duty of an economic operator.

Section 28(7) requires a fine from 100 to 5,000 euro, repeatable, on a person who obstructs or hinders a check or supervision. Section 28(11) raises the fines to up to twice the amounts if the duty is breached again within one year of the final decision imposing a fine. Section 28(8) allows a fine to be imposed within five years of the day of the breach.

Section 79(1) and (3) of the Administrative Procedure Code (Act 71/1967) enforces a decision that imposes a non-monetary duty, where substitute performance is not possible or practical, by successive fines, each of at most 1,659 euro. Act 88/2026 added section 30(3) to Act 56/2018, under which sections 26 to 28 do not apply to the supervision of public procurement of a designated product of the Regulation that section 167 of the Public Procurement Act governs.

Section 29(8) of Act 56/2018, also added by Act 88/2026, has the Slovak Trade Inspection give a consumer on request, in an accessible form and at no extra cost, the information of section 14(2), second sentence, and section 14(5) of the Regulation, unless that would breach or endanger a trade secret. Section 31b of Act 56/2018 completes supervision and sanctions begun and not finally concluded by 1 January 2026 according to the text in force to 31 December 2025.

Article 30(1) of the Directive requires each State to lay down rules on penalties for infringements of the national provisions adopted pursuant to the Directive.