European Accessibility Act Tracker

Article 31(2) of Directive (EU) 2019/882 states that Member States shall apply their implementing measures from 28 June 2025. That is the date the obligations began to apply to in-scope products and services. The separate transposition deadline, by which Member States had to adopt and publish their national laws, was 28 June 2022 under Article 31(1). The Directive itself was adopted on 17 April 2019 and published in OJ L 151 on 7 June 2019.

All 27 Member States have communicated national transposition measures to the European Commission, 380 instruments in total as recorded by EUR-Lex. That confirms each country has notified something, but it is not evidence that transposition is complete or correct. On 11 March 2026 the Commission sent additional reasoned opinions to Germany and Croatia because transposition gaps remain. EUR-Lex states explicitly that Member States bear sole responsibility for this information and that it does not prejudge the Commission's verification of completeness and correctness.

You cannot tell that from measure counts, and it would be a mistake to try. Germany has communicated 59 instruments while Ireland, Cyprus, and Malta have each communicated one. That difference reflects legislative drafting style rather than effort: a country that transposes through a single consolidated act shows one measure, while a country that amends dozens of existing sectoral laws shows dozens. Treat the counts as a record of notification, not a league table.

Nobody knows, and no official source can tell you. There is no EU-wide compliance or enforcement dataset for the European Accessibility Act. Article 33(1) requires the Commission to report on the application of the Directive by 28 June 2030 and every five years after that, so the first authoritative picture is about four years away. National figures exist for individual countries, and these developments trace to primary sources as of our 31 October 2026 review: an interim June 2026 order of the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen against Carrefour France, with a conditional daily penalty, 10,000 euros in provisional damages and 3,000 euros in costs payable to the two associations that sued; and a March 2026 report by the Dutch regulator ACM finding 61% of the largest Dutch online stores not digitally accessible. We found no fine issued by a national regulator under an EAA transposition law, which means none was found, not that none exists.

Three dates are still ahead. Under Article 31(3), Member States may defer the obligations in Article 4(8) until 28 June 2027 at the latest. Under Article 32(1), a transitional period runs until 28 June 2030 during which service providers may continue using products they lawfully used before the application date, and service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025 may run unaltered until they expire but no longer than five years. Under Article 32(2), self-service terminals lawfully in use before 28 June 2025 may continue until the end of their economically useful life, capped at 20 years from entry into use.

The Directive applies to products placed on the EU market and services provided to consumers in the EU, regardless of where the provider is established. A United States or United Kingdom company selling to EU consumers can therefore be in scope. For the detail on scope, the microenterprise exemption, and the technical route to compliance through EN 301 549, see our European Accessibility Act compliance guide, which covers requirements rather than the legislative tracking on this page.