When did the European Accessibility Act come into force?

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.

Have all EU Member States transposed the EAA?

All 27 Member States have communicated national transposition measures to the European Commission, 378 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. 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.

Which country has done the most to implement the EAA?

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.

How many companies are complying with the EAA?

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 four years away. Most claims about enforcement activity circulate from companies selling remediation services, but two developments do trace to primary sources as of our 27 August 2026 review: a June 2026 ruling of the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen ordering Carrefour to make its site and app fully accessible, and a March 2026 report by the Dutch regulator ACM finding 61% of the largest Dutch webshops inaccessible. Neither is a fine, and no monetary penalty under an EAA transposition law has been confirmed.

What are the remaining EAA deadlines?

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.

Does the EAA apply to companies outside the EU?

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.

Research report

Directive (EU) 2019/882

27 Member States

Reviewed: Aug 27, 2026

European Accessibility Act Tracker

Every statutory date quoted from the Directive itself, national transposition measures for all 27 Member States, and a straight answer about what enforcement data does and does not exist.

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Headline finding

All 27 Member States have communicated transposition measures, 378 instruments in total. But there is no EU-wide compliance or enforcement dataset, and under Article 33 the first Commission report is not due until 28 June 2030.

Source: EUR-Lex, Directive (EU) 2019/882. Dates quoted from the Directive text. Measure counts are notifications, not a compliance score.

Application date: 28 Jun 2025
Member States reporting: 27 of 27
Measures communicated: 378
First EU report due: 28 Jun 2030

Executive summary

The law landed. The evidence has not.

The European Accessibility Act has applied since June 2025 and every Member State has notified national measures. What does not exist, and will not for years, is any official picture of whether it is working. That gap is being filled by vendor marketing, so this page states plainly what is documented and what is not.

Every date below is quoted from the Directive on EUR-Lex, article by article.

Applying since 28 June 2025

Article 31(2). The transposition deadline three years earlier, 28 June 2022, is a different date and is often confused with it.

All 27 have notified measures

378 instruments in total, from 59 in Germany to one each in Ireland, Cyprus and Malta. The spread reflects drafting style, not diligence.

3 obligations still ahead

Article 4(8) may be deferred to 2027, and transitional cover for existing products, contracts and self-service terminals runs to 2030 and beyond.

The statutory timeline

Every date that is actually in the Directive

Quoted from the text of Directive (EU) 2019/882 rather than paraphrased, because the dates circulating in vendor marketing are frequently wrong or missing their conditions.

28 June 2022
Article 31(1)In effect
Transposition deadline
Member States shall adopt and publish, by 28 June 2022, the laws, regulations and administrative provisions necessary to comply with this Directive.
28 June 2025
Article 31(2)In effect
Application date
They shall apply those measures from 28 June 2025.
This is the date the obligations began to bite for in-scope products and services.
28 June 2027
Article 31(3)Upcoming
Article 4(8) derogation ends
Member States may decide to apply the measures regarding the obligations set out in Article 4(8) at the latest from 28 June 2027.
28 June 2030
Article 32(1)Upcoming
Transitional period ends
Member States shall provide for a transitional period ending on 28 June 2030 during which service providers may continue to provide their services using products which were lawfully used by them to provide similar services before that date.
28 June 2030
Article 33(1)Upcoming
First Commission report due
By 28 June 2030, and every five years thereafter, the Commission shall submit to the European Parliament, to the Council, to the European Economic and Social Committee and to the Committee of the Regions a report on the application of this Directive.
This is why no official EU-wide compliance or enforcement dataset exists yet.

Two transitional rules people miss

Article 32(1): Service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025 may continue without alteration until they expire, but no longer than five years from that date.
Article 32(2): Self-service terminals lawfully used to provide services before 28 June 2025 may continue to be used until the end of their economically useful life, but no longer than 20 years after their entry into use.

There is no EAA enforcement data, and there will not be until 2030

There is no official EU-wide compliance or enforcement dataset for the European Accessibility Act, and there will not be one before 2030. Article 33(1) sets the first Commission report on the application of the Directive at 28 June 2030. Claims circulating about enforcement activity in individual Member States generally originate from vendors selling remediation services and could not be verified against a primary regulatory source. Anything on this subject should be sourced to a named national regulator or court, one country at a time. As of a 27 August 2026 review, two developments do trace to primary sources: on 4 June 2026 the Tribunal judiciaire de Caen ordered Carrefour to make its website and app accessible within six months under a 500 euro daily penalty, treating accessibility as an obligation of result, in a case brought by the associations ApiDV and Droit Pluriel; and on 24 March 2026 the Dutch regulator ACM published findings that 61% of the largest Dutch webshops are not digitally accessible and warned that companies that fail to improve risk enforcement. No monetary fine issued by a national regulator under an EAA transposition law had been confirmed as of that review.

We looked for this data and did not find it. Rather than fill the gap with vendor claims, we are telling you the gap exists. If you need enforcement intelligence for a specific market, go to that country's named market surveillance authority.

National transposition measures by Member State

Instruments each Member State has communicated to the Commission, as recorded by EUR-Lex on 27 August 2026.

All 27 Member States have now communicated transposition measures, 378 in total. The spread from 59 to 1 says almost nothing about effort or quality: it reflects whether a country transposed through one consolidated act or amended dozens of existing laws.

A count is not a score. These counts are the number of national instruments each Member State has communicated to the Commission, not a measure of implementation quality or completeness. A state with one consolidated act is not behind a state with fifty amendments; it reflects legislative drafting style. EUR-Lex states that Member States bear sole responsibility for this information and that it does not prejudge Commission verification of completeness and correctness.

Source: EUR-Lex national transposition measures

This page tracks the legal instrument. For what the EAA actually requires of a website or app, who is in scope, the small-business exemption, and the route to compliance through EN 301 549, see our European Accessibility Act compliance guide and the EN 301 549 standard guide. For every other jurisdiction, see the accessibility laws tracker.

Data Sources

Directive (EU) 2019/882, consolidated text
All dates and quoted obligations are taken from the text of the Directive on EUR-Lex, article by article, not from secondary summaries.
EUR-Lex national transposition measures
Counts of national instruments communicated to the Commission by each Member State. EUR-Lex updates this collection as Member States notify measures.

Sample Size

27 Member States, 378 communicated measures

Date Range

Directive adopted 17 April 2019; transposition data read 27 August 2026

Limitations

Measure counts are the number of national instruments communicated, not a measure of implementation quality, completeness, or enforcement activity.
EUR-Lex states that Member States bear sole responsibility for this information and that it does not prejudge the Commission's verification of the completeness and correctness of transposition.
A Member State that transposed through one consolidated act will show a low count next to one that amended many existing laws. The counts are not comparable as effort or compliance.
No official EU-wide compliance or enforcement dataset exists. Article 33(1) sets the first Commission report on application of the Directive at 28 June 2030.
Claims about national enforcement activity circulating in vendor content could not be verified against primary regulatory sources and are deliberately excluded from this page.
This tracker covers the Directive itself. Individual Member State implementing laws may impose additional or earlier obligations that are not reflected in these counts.

Last updated: 2026-08-27

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Accessibility.build. (2026). European Accessibility Act Tracker. https://accessibility.build/research/european-accessibility-act

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