European Accessibility Act Compliance in Czechia (Act 424/2023 Coll.)
The European Accessibility Act reached Czechia through zákon č. 424/2023 Sb., o požadavcích na přístupnost některých výrobků a služeb (Act No. 424/2023 Coll. on accessibility requirements for certain products and services), which took effect on 28 June 2025. It covers e-commerce, consumer banking and other financial services, electronic communications, access to audiovisual media services, e-books and e-book software, and passenger transport by air, rail, water and scheduled bus, along with a defined list of consumer hardware and self-service terminals.
Scan your site freeWho has to comply in Czechia
The act applies to any business selling covered products or providing covered services to consumers in Czechia, wherever the business itself is established. Covered services are electronic communications, access to audiovisual media services, financial services, e-commerce, e-books and e-book software, and passenger transport by air, scheduled bus, rail and water, plus self-service terminals in urban and regional transport. Services provided by a micro-enterprise are excluded under § 2(3)(a): fewer than 10 staff AND annual turnover or annual balance sheet total of no more than EUR 2 million. The exemption covers services only. A micro-enterprise that manufactures, imports or distributes a covered product still has product obligations, though § 15 relieves it of some assessment paperwork. Public-sector websites and mobile applications sit under a separate regime, zákon č. 99/2019 Sb., which transposes Directive (EU) 2016/2102 and is overseen by Digitální a informační agentura.
The deadlines that matter
EU deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882. Czechia did not meet it
Zákon č. 424/2023 Sb. adopted by the Czech Parliament, about 17 months after the deadline
Published in the Sbírka zákonů, částka 194/2023
Act takes effect. It applies to products placed on the market and services provided after this date
Amendments by zákon č. 130/2025 Sb. and zákon č. 218/2025 Sb. take effect, revising the transport supervision list in § 19 and the fine collection rule in § 26
End of the § 28 transitional periods for pre-existing service contracts and for non-accessible products already used to provide services. Self-service terminals already in use run on a separate limit of 20 years from first commissioning
Prove your Czechia compliance
Conforma scans your site against WCAG 2.2 AA and EN 301 549, the practical reference for Annex 1 of zákon č. 424/2023 Sb. It drafts a Czechia-specific accessibility statement for the § 14 information you publish in your terms, and keeps a dated record of every issue and every fix as evidence for the supervising authority. A scan gives you testing and evidence, never a guarantee of compliance.
Czechia EAA questions, answered
When does the EAA apply in Czechia, and is there a transition period?
The act took effect on 28 June 2025 and applies to products placed on the market and services provided after that date. Three transitional rules matter. A provider may keep using non-accessible products it already used lawfully before then until 28 June 2030, if those products reached the market by 28 June 2025. Contracts concluded before the act took effect may run unchanged until they end, at the latest until 28 June 2030. Self-service terminals already in use have a longer limit of 20 years from first commissioning.
Is my small business exempt?
Services provided by a micro-enterprise fall outside the act. A micro-enterprise employs fewer than 10 people and has an annual turnover or annual balance sheet total of no more than EUR 2 million; both conditions must hold. The exemption is for services only. If you manufacture, import or distribute a covered product, the product obligations still apply, although § 15 relieves a micro-enterprise of some assessment and notification paperwork.
Which accessibility standard do I have to meet?
Czechia sets no separate national accessibility standard. The requirements are written out in Annex 1 to the act. The European standard EN 301 549 is the practical reference for meeting them, and its current published version V3.2.1 applies the WCAG 2.1 level AA success criteria to web content. WCAG 2.2 AA carries those criteria forward, so testing to WCAG 2.2 AA covers the web part. No harmonised standard has been cited in the Official Journal under the EAA so far, so § 16 gives no formal presumption of conformity yet.
Who enforces the act, and what are the penalties?
Supervision is split by sector under § 19. Česká obchodní inspekce (Czech Trade Inspection Authority) covers products and most services, including e-commerce and financial services. Český telekomunikační úřad handles electronic communications and Rada pro rozhlasové a televizní vysílání handles audiovisual media access, with transport regulators taking the transport services. Fines under § 25(8) run in four bands, up to CZK 10 million for the most serious offences, including failing to make a covered service accessible.
This page is a plain-English summary, not legal advice. Check the cited national law for specifics.
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