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European Accessibility Act · Article 32

Transitional measures

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Article 32(1): Transitional measures: services may keep using products already in lawful use

subject kind service · Article 32(1)

Without prejudice to paragraph 2 of this Article, 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. Service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025 may continue without alteration until they expire, but no longer than five years from that date.

How to satisfy it: The window that decides whether a service is exposed today. It runs to 28 June 2030 for products a provider lawfully used for similar services before that date, and service contracts agreed before 28 June 2025 run to expiry, capped at five years. It exists only where the Member State provided for it, which is a national question this corpus cannot answer.

Article 32(1) on EUR-Lex · as of 2026-08-14 · Directive (EU) 2019/882

Article 32(2): Transitional measures: self-service terminals may run to the end of their economic life

subject kind service · Article 32(2)

Member States may provide that self-service terminals lawfully used by service providers for the provision of services before 28 June 2025 may continue to be used in the provision of similar services until the end of their economically useful life, but no longer than 20 years after their entry into use.

How to satisfy it: A MAY, not a shall: Member States may allow terminals lawfully used before 28 June 2025 to continue until the end of their economically useful life, capped at twenty years from entry into use. Twenty years from entry into use is not a fixed calendar date, so a 2045 figure is a derived worst case rather than the text.

Article 32(2) on EUR-Lex · as of 2026-08-14 · Directive (EU) 2019/882

No harmonised standard is cited in the Official Journal under this Directive, so the Article 15(1) presumption of conformity is available to nobody. EN 301 549 is harmonised under Directive (EU) 2016/2102, the Web Accessibility Directive, and not under this one. Conformity is demonstrated against Annex I directly.

Every quoted requirement on this page is verbatim Official Journal text. The surrounding guidance is Legalithm’s commentary and is not regulation. This page states the obligation and its legal basis; it is not legal advice, and the corpus has not been reviewed by counsel.