The European Accessibility Act by country: national laws and who enforces them

This page lists every EU member state's national measures for the European Accessibility Act (EAA), as the EU publishes them, and adds the enforcement authority and maximum penalty only where we checked an official national source. For what the EAA itself requires, read EU accessibility law for websites; for a step-by-step plan for an online store, read our EAA compliance guide. Germany, the country with the longest list of measures, has its own page: BFSG website requirements.

Why there is no EU-wide EAA fine

The EAA is Directive (EU) 2019/882. A directive binds member states, not businesses directly: Article 31 required each state to adopt and publish its own laws by June 28, 2022 and to apply them from June 28, 2025. A business is therefore checked and penalized under a national law.

Article 30 leaves penalties to those national laws. It says member states "shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of national provisions adopted pursuant to this Directive", and that the penalties "shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive" and "accompanied by effective remedial action in case of non-compliance". Article 30(4) adds that penalties must take into account the extent of the non-compliance, including its seriousness, the number of non-complying products or services and the number of people affected.

The directive sets no amount, which is why any "EU fine range" is a summary of 27 different laws, some of which do not state an amount at all. Enforcement is national too: Article 23 requires each state to set up procedures to check services and to designate the authorities responsible. As of mid-2026 we have found no confirmed fine issued under any national EAA law.

How to read the table

The national measures come from the EU's own list on EUR-Lex, national transposition measures for Directive 2019/882, read on October 11, 2026. EUR-Lex states: "The member states bear sole responsibility for all information on this site provided by them on the transposition of EU law into national law." It adds that this "does not, however, prejudice the results of the verification by the Commission of the completeness and correctness of the transposition", and that the collection "is updated weekly". The list shows what each state reported, not a finding that the state transposed the directive correctly.

• Main measure: the act or acts that carry the EAA's core rules, linked to its EUR-Lex record. The title is in the original language where we give it, followed by our own English rendering, which is not an official translation.
• Measures listed: how many measures the state has reported. Long lists usually include amendments to sector laws and rules on answering the 112 emergency number, a duty that Article 31(3) lets states apply from June 28, 2027 at the latest.
• Enforcement and maximum penalty: filled in only where we read it at an official national source, linked in the cell. Where the source is official guidance rather than the legal text, the cell says so. "Not verified yet" means we have not confirmed it at an official source; it does not mean the country has no authority or no penalty.

Notes on the countries we verified

Germany

The BFSG exempts microenterprises providing services (section 3(3)) and sets fines in section 37: up to €100,000 for cases such as offering or providing a service that does not meet the requirements, and up to €10,000 for other infringements, such as not informing the authority about a non-conforming service or not answering its requests (points 2 and 6). Offering a service without publishing the accessibility information breaches section 14(1) and falls in the €100,000 group. According to the Bavarian trade inspectorate, the states set up a joint body, the Marktüberwachungsstelle der Länder für die Barrierefreiheit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen (MLBF), which has been fully responsible for enforcement since September 26, 2025. The MLBF describes itself as the joint authority of the 16 German states, which began its nationwide work in September 2025. Our Germany page covers the law in detail.

Ireland

Regulation 4 of S.I. No. 636 of 2023 splits enforcement by sector. The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission is the market surveillance authority for products and the compliance authority for e-commerce and e-books. The Commission for Communications Regulation covers electronic communications, Coimisiún na Meán covers access to audiovisual media, the Irish Aviation Authority and the National Transport Authority cover passenger transport, and the Central Bank of Ireland covers consumer banking. Under Regulation 32(6), an offense carries a class A fine and/or up to 6 months in prison on summary conviction, or up to €60,000 and/or 18 months on conviction on indictment. The Regulations came into operation on June 28, 2025.

France

A DGCCRF information sheet published on the government's disability portal says the DGCCRF checks the products covered by the directive and also checks services, including e-commerce, in coordination with ARCOM, ARCEP, Banque de France, ACPR and AMF. It lists the sanction as a fifth-class contravention under Article R. 451-4-I of the Consumer Code. We have not verified the euro amount at an official source, so we do not state one. France also has an older, separate duty: Article 47 of Law 2005-102 covers public bodies and companies with average French turnover of €250 million or more, is enforced by ARCOM, and carries fines up to €50,000 for the accessibility duty.

Italy

AgID's official FAQ on Legislative Decree 82/2022 names AgID as the supervisory authority for the services in Article 1(3) of the decree, except audiovisual media services, which fall to AGCOM and the Ministry of Enterprises and Made in Italy; the ministry also covers products. The FAQ gives fines of €5,000 to €40,000 for breaching the accessibility requirements or the decree's obligations, depending on the extent of the non-conformity, the number of non-conforming services or products and the number of users affected, and €2,500 to €30,000 for ignoring the authority's orders or withholding requested information. The FAQ adds that a different regime applies to companies covered by Article 3(1-bis) of Law 4/2004: that provision covers private entities offering services to the public through websites or mobile apps with average turnover above €500 million over the last three years, and under Article 9(1-bis) AgID sets a deadline to remove a breach and, if the company does not comply, can fine it up to 5% of turnover. The same FAQ confirms the microenterprise exemption for services.

Austria

The Austrian social affairs ministry says central market surveillance under the Barrierefreiheitsgesetz sits with the Upper Austria regional office of the Sozialministeriumservice, which can order corrective measures, ban sales or impose fines. Depending on the type of violation and the size of the company, fines for large companies can reach €80,000, with lower amounts for microenterprises and SMEs. The ministry also confirms that microenterprises providing services are fully exempt.

Sweden

Under section 39 of the Act on the accessibility of certain products and services (SFS 2023:254), a sanction fee is set at no less than SEK 10,000 and no more than SEK 10,000,000, weighed by how serious and extensive the breach is; minor cases get no fee. The Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) says it reviews e-commerce, banking and electronic communications services aimed at consumers.

Netherlands, Spain and Finland

• Netherlands: the Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) said in June 2025 that it would enforce the new rules for e-commerce and electronic communications services from June 28, 2025. Its announcement gives no fine amounts.
• Spain: Law 11/2023 leaves the choice of authorities to the autonomous communities and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla (Article 27). Article 30 applies each sector's own penalty rules, with Title III of Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013 as the fallback, so there is no single Spanish EAA maximum to quote.
• Finland: Traficom's accessibility requirements site states that "Traficom is the authority enforcing compliance with accessibility requirements in Finland." It gives no fine amounts.

Why figures elsewhere may differ from this table

Many EAA summaries give one maximum fine and one regulator for every member state. Where their figures differ from ours, it is usually for one of these reasons:

• Some laws set no single amount. Spain's Law 11/2023 applies each sector's own penalty rules, with Royal Legislative Decree 1/2013 as the fallback (Article 30), so the EAA law itself gives no one Spanish maximum.
• Some countries have more than one regime. Italy's €5,000 to €40,000 range applies to most operators, while the largest companies face a turnover-based fine under a separate law.
• The enforcer is not always a national agency. The BFSG leaves market surveillance to the German states (section 2, point 22), and the states set up the MLBF; the ceiling is €100,000 under section 37.

We fill a row only once we have read the official source, so a gap here means the row is still to be checked, not that the country has no rule.

Courts can move before regulators

The most visible enforcement so far has come from disability associations in court, not from fines. On June 4, 2026, in emergency proceedings, the Caen judicial court ordered Carrefour to make its carrefour.fr website and app accessible within six months under a penalty payment, as reported by Handicap.fr. According to the same report, the Lille court had earlier rejected a similar action against Auchan E-Commerce on scope. Our EU law page covers these cases, and our dated log of accessibility law updates records them as they happen.

What this means if you sell in several EU countries

The national laws listed above all implement the same directive, so the core work on your site is largely the same in every market. What changes from country to country is who can check you, what they can order and what the penalty ceiling is. In practice:

1. Check whether you are in scope at all

   A service microenterprise, with fewer than 10 employees and annual turnover or balance sheet total not exceeding €2 million, is exempt under Article 4(5) of the directive. Our which accessibility laws apply tool walks through the questions.

2. Build to one standard

   EN 301 549 v3.2.1, the current reference standard, uses WCAG 2.1 Level AA, and v4.1.1 moves to WCAG 2.2. Building to WCAG 2.2 AA meets both WCAG baselines (v3.2.1 still lists WCAG 4.1.1 Parsing, which WCAG 2.2 removed); see our EN 301 549 page, which WCAG version you need and the WCAG 2.2 checklist.

3. Publish the information the law asks for

   Article 13 and Annex V of the directive require service providers to publish how their service meets the requirements. Germany's version also asks you to name the market surveillance authority. Our accessibility statement generator drafts a structured starting point, and our accessibility statement guide explains what to include.

4. Test, fix and keep records

   Our free scan runs 16 rule-based WCAG checks on up to three pages, and the deep audit opens up to six images per page to check whether each alt text is true. Automated checks cover only part of WCAG, as our page on what automated testing can check explains, so plan a keyboard test and a full accessibility audit as well. An overlay widget does not replace this work; see overlays and the FTC.