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EAA deadlines by country

One directive, 16 national laws, and dates that do not all land on the same day. Every date below is taken from the member-state page it belongs to, in the order it happens.

Next date on this list: 28 June 2027 (4 member states)

Still to come

A date shared by several member states is the directive's own. A date that appears once belongs to that country alone.

  1. 4 member states
    • Bulgaria Paragraph 5 of the transitional provisions takes effect, amending the law on the 112 emergency call system, and the interim arrangement for emergency calls in paragraph 4(4) ends
    • Greece Under article 3(3), the law starts to apply to the handling of emergency communications to and from the single European emergency number 112
    • Hungary Requirements on answering emergency communications to 112 start to apply under section 12(5) of the Act
    • Latvia Section 3, paragraph three of the law and Chapter VI of Regulation No. 128, both on answering the single emergency number 112, enter into force
  2. 16 member states
    • Austria End of the § 37 Abs. 2 transition for products already in lawful use before 28 June 2025 and for service contracts agreed before that date
    • Belgium End of the transition for service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025, and the date to which article 40 runs the micro-enterprise exclusion
    • Bulgaria End of the transition period for services already provided before 28 June 2025 and for contracts signed before that date
    • Croatia Under Article 37, last day service providers may keep using products they were already using lawfully before 28 June 2025. This is not a general grace period for the service itself
    • Cyprus End of the Article 45 transition for services delivered with products used lawfully before 28 June 2025
    • Czechia 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
    • Denmark End of the transition for services delivered by means of products lawfully used before 28 June 2025, and for contracts agreed before that date
    • Estonia End of the transition for service contracts signed before 28 June 2025 and for products already used to provide a service
    • Finland Outer limit for service contracts already running before 28 June 2025
    • France End of the transition period for services already in operation
    • Germany End of the transition period for services already provided before 28 June 2025
    • Greece End of the article 28(1) transition for products already lawfully used to provide services before 28 June 2025
    • Hungary Outer limit for services continued under contracts concluded before 28 June 2025
    • Ireland End of the Regulation 38(1) transition for services provided using products already in lawful use, and the outer limit for service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025.
    • Latvia Service contracts concluded before 28 June 2025 must be brought into line with the accessibility requirements if they still run after 27 June 2030
    • Netherlands End of the transition period for services already being provided before 28 June 2025
  3. 1 member state
    • Belgium Latest date to which article 40 lets excluded micro-enterprises keep serving customers with products they already used lawfully
  4. 1 member state
    • Austria Last date under § 37 Abs. 3 for self-service terminals that were already in use before 28 June 2025

By member state

The first and last date each country's page records. The last one is the date that matters for planning: after it, the transition period there is over.

Member state First recorded date Last recorded date Milestones
Austria 7
Belgium 7
Bulgaria 6
Croatia 6
Cyprus 5
Czechia 6
Denmark 6
Estonia 7
Finland 7
France 5
Germany 3
Greece 8
Hungary 8
Ireland 5
Latvia 6
Netherlands 2

Conforma publishes 16 of the 27 member states so far. A country missing from this table has no page here yet, not no deadline.

Everything that has already happened (41 dates)
  1. 1 member state
  2. 1 member state
    • Estonia Riigikogu passes the Toodete ja teenuste ligipääsetavuse seadus, published as RT I, 15.06.2022, 1
  3. 1 member state
    • Denmark Lov nr. 801 om tilgængelighedskrav for produkter og tjenester adopted, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882
  4. 1 member state
    • Estonia The Minister of Social Protection adopts regulation no 45 on functional accessibility requirements and regulation no 46 on disproportionate burden
  5. 12 member states
    • Austria EU transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2019/882, which passed with no Austrian transposing law in force
    • Belgium EU deadline for transposing the EAA. Belgium had adopted no transposing instrument by this date
    • Bulgaria EU deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882. Bulgaria did not notify a transposing measure by this date.
    • Croatia EU deadline to transpose Directive (EU) 2019/882. Croatia missed it and received a Commission letter of formal notice in July 2022
    • Cyprus EU-wide deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882; Cyprus had no national law in place
    • Czechia EU deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882. Czechia did not meet it
    • Denmark The act enters into force under section 58, the same day as the EU transposition deadline
    • Estonia The Act and both regulations enter into force, on the EU transposition deadline
    • Finland EU transposition deadline for Directive (EU) 2019/882, which Finland did not meet
    • Greece EU deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882. Greece had not transposed by this date
    • Hungary EU deadline for Member States to transpose the EAA. Hungary had not adopted its transposing act by this date
    • Ireland EU deadline for transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882. Ireland did not notify transposition measures by this date.
  6. 2 member states
    • Greece Commission letter of formal notice to Greece for failure to notify transposition measures, case INFR(2022)0297
    • Hungary The Országgyűlés adopts Act XVII of 2022, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882
  7. 4 member states
    • Austria European Commission sends letters of formal notice to 24 Member States over transposition measures that had not been communicated in full; the sources reached here do not name the 24 individually
    • Cyprus European Commission sends letters of formal notice to 24 member states that had not communicated full transposition
    • Estonia The Commission sends letters of formal notice to 24 member states for not communicating full transposition. Estonia is not among them
    • Hungary The Commission sends letters of formal notice to 24 Member States for not communicating full transposition of the EAA
  8. 1 member state
    • Hungary Act XVII of 2022 is promulgated
  9. 1 member state
    • Greece Νόμος 4994/2022 published in ΦΕΚ Α' 215, transposing Directive (EU) 2019/882
  10. 1 member state
    • Hungary 605/2022. (XII. 28.) Korm. rendelet is published, designating the inspection authorities and setting the fine amounts
  11. 1 member state
    • Finland Finland's transposing acts 102/2023 to 107/2023 are given in Helsinki
  12. 1 member state
    • Finland Acts 102/2023, 103/2023, 104/2023, 105/2023 and 107/2023 enter into force
  13. 1 member state
    • Finland Government Decrees 179/2023, 180/2023 and 181/2023 enter into force
  14. 1 member state
    • France LOI n° 2023-171 adopted, transposing the EAA into French law
  15. 1 member state
    • Latvia The Saeima adopts the Preču un pakalpojumu piekļūstamības likums, nine months after the EU transposition deadline of 28 June 2022
  16. 1 member state
    • Latvia The law is published in Latvijas Vēstnesis No. 62
  17. 2 member states
    • Denmark European Commission sends Denmark a letter of formal notice, INFR(2023)2014, for incomplete transposition
    • Estonia The Commission opens infringement procedure INFR(2023)2013 against Estonia, alongside Denmark and Italy, for not fully transposing the Directive
  18. 1 member state
    • Austria Nationalrat adopts the Barrierefreiheitsgesetz
  19. 1 member state
    • Austria Bundesrat approves it, and the Act is published later that month as BGBl. I Nr. 76/2023
  20. 1 member state
    • Ireland European Commission sends Ireland a reasoned opinion for failing to notify transposition measures, with two months to respond.
  21. 1 member state
    • Belgium Law amending the electronic communications act of 13 June 2005 adopted, partial transposition for telecoms (Moniteur belge, 29 September 2023)
  22. 1 member state
    • France Ordonnance n° 2023-859 adopted
  23. 1 member state
    • Belgium Royal decree on accessibility requirements for products adopted (Moniteur belge, 6 November 2023)
  24. 1 member state
    • France Décret n° 2023-931 adopted
  25. 1 member state
    • Belgium Law amending the Code de droit économique adopted, covering consumer banking and e-commerce services (Moniteur belge, 28 November 2023)
  26. 1 member state
    • Czechia Zákon č. 424/2023 Sb. adopted by the Czech Parliament, about 17 months after the deadline
  27. 1 member state
    • Ireland S.I. No. 636 of 2023 made under the Minister's official seal. Notice of its making published in Iris Oifigiúil on 15 December 2023.
  28. 1 member state
    • Czechia Published in the Sbírka zákonů, částka 194/2023
  29. 1 member state
    • Latvia The Cabinet adopts Regulation No. 128, which carries the detailed accessibility requirements for products and services; published in Latvijas Vēstnesis No. 42 of 28 February 2024
  30. 1 member state
    • Cyprus Law 57(I)/2024 published in Official Gazette No. 4996, transposing the EAA into Cypriot law
  31. 1 member state
    • Denmark Lov nr. 637, section 4, amends the act, adding guidance for micro-enterprises and a duty to release compliance information to consumers
  32. 1 member state
    • Finland Act 606/2024 moves digital service supervision from Etelä-Suomen aluehallintovirasto to Traficom
  33. 1 member state
    • Greece Commission reasoned opinion in INFR(2022)0297 over remaining transposition gaps in Greek law
  34. 1 member state
    • Bulgaria Law on the accessibility requirements for products and services promulgated in Държавен вестник (State Gazette) issue 31
  35. 1 member state
    • Croatia Hrvatski sabor adopts the Zakon o zahtjevima za pristupačnost proizvoda i usluga, published in Narodne novine 89/2025 on 13 June 2025
  36. 16 member states
    • Austria BaFG enters into force under § 37 Abs. 1, so products placed on the market and services provided from this date have to comply
    • Belgium The two laws enter into force and the royal decree starts to apply to products placed on the market; EAA obligations bite
    • Bulgaria Law in force. Products placed on the market and services newly provided from this date must comply.
    • Croatia The Act enters into force under Article 38, the same day EAA obligations begin to apply across the EU
    • Cyprus Obligations apply to products placed on the market and services provided to consumers from this date
    • Czechia Act takes effect. It applies to products placed on the market and services provided after this date
    • Denmark Requirements apply to products placed on the market and services supplied from this date, under section 59
    • Estonia Requirements start to apply to products placed on the market and services provided, under section 22(1)
    • Finland EAA obligations begin to apply, and Act 106/2023 on emergency communications enters into force
    • France EAA obligations in force for new products and services
    • Germany BFSG enters into force: new products and services placed on the market must comply
    • Greece Part B of Law 4994/2022 applies under article 46(2). Products placed on the market and services provided from this date must comply
    • Hungary The Act and the decree enter into force. Products placed on the market and services newly provided from this date have to comply
    • Ireland Regulations come into operation under Regulation 1(2). Products placed on the market and services provided to consumers from this date must comply.
    • Latvia The law and Regulation No. 128 enter into force, the date EAA obligations start applying across the EU
    • Netherlands Implementatiewet in force: products placed on the market and services newly provided from this date must comply
  37. 1 member state
    • Czechia 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
  38. 1 member state
    • Greece Νόμος 5218/2025 (ΦΕΚ Α' 125) adds articles 6Α and 25Α to Law 4994/2022 and amends article 26(2)
  39. 1 member state
    • Croatia European Commission sends Croatia an additional reasoned opinion, INFR(2022)0306, holding that transposition is still incomplete
  40. 1 member state
    • Bulgaria End of the 50 percent reduction on fines and pecuniary sanctions under paragraph 3 of the transitional provisions
  41. 1 member state
    • Croatia The responsible ministry opens public consultation on a bill amending the Act, covering electronic communications provisions, Croatian-language declarations of conformity, and wider penalty coverage

What a date does not tell you

A transition period ending is not the same as an inspection. No EU regulator has issued a fine under the EAA yet. What has happened is court claims brought by disability associations and complaints filed with market surveillance bodies, both of which arrive without notice. What the first ruling actually decided is a better guide to the risk than any deadline is.

This is a summary of published dates, not legal advice. Whether the EAA covers a particular business depends on its services and its size.

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