Article 14 disproportionate burden assessment

Not a defence you raise when someone complains. Article 14 is an assessment you carry out in advance, document, retain five years, renew, and notify to your market surveillance authority. This generates that document.

It needs no accessibility testing. Annex VI is ratios of costs to costs and costs to turnover, plus a benefit comparison, which is why this is the cheapest piece of EAA compliance work you can start.

Economic operator

Economic operator *AddressPrepared byMicroenterprise (under 10 staff and ≤ EUR 2m)

Offered in the European Union? *

The threshold question of the Directive. There is no default: assuming yes invents the fact the whole thing turns on, and assuming no produces an empty duty list that reads like compliance.

YesNo

Product or service

Product or service *Name *Limb relied on *Assessment date *

Requirements said to be affected *One per line. Article 14 bounds specific requirements, not accessibility in general.

Article 14(6): funding

We have received funding from sources other than our own resources, public or private, for improving accessibility (for example a BAFA subsidy).

Annex VI criteria 1 and 3

CurrencyNet compliance costs *Overall costs (opex + capex) *Annex VI criterion 1 denominator.Net turnover *Annex VI criterion 3 denominator.

Annex VI cost elements

Optional. Where given, these are reconciled against the declared net compliance costs.

Accessibility expertiseTraining and competencesNew process developmentGuidance materialUnderstanding the legislationAccessibility feature designManufacturing processesAccessibility testingEstablishing documentation

Annex VI criterion 2

Estimated benefit for persons with disabilitiesAnnex VI criterion 2. Ratios alone do not satisfy Annex VI.Amount and frequency of use

Articles 14(3) and 14(8)

Member States where placed or providedArticle 14(8) notification. Comma separated.Last placed on market / last providedArticle 14(3) retention runs five years from this, not from the assessment.

Where should we send it?

Email *Email me the assessment and occasional EU accessibility compliance updates. Unsubscribe any time.

This tool does not conclude. Article 14(7) empowered the Commission to supplement Annex VI by delegated act, with a first act due 28 June 2020, and none has been adopted. There is no official threshold ratio and no methodology, so the document records the criteria and the judgement is signed by a named person who is accountable for it.

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