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Re: Who monitors and enforces EAA violations?

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From: Léonie Watson
Date: Apr 15, 2025 9:49AM

Birkir,


Where the Web Accessibility Directive (WAD) expects a single national
monitoring body in each EU member state, the EAA expects one or more
market surveillance authorities instead.


These market surveillance authorities are sector specific, rather than
nation specific, so there may be multiple market surveillance
authorities in each nation. You can find out more about them here:

https://single-market-economy.ec.europa.eu/single-market/goods/building-blocks/market-surveillance/organisation_en


HTH

Léonie.

On 15/04/2025 15:06, Birkir R. Gunnarsson via WebAIM-Forum wrote:
> Good (insert time of day) friends
>
> I am reading up on the European Accessibility Act, mostly for my own
> curiosity.
> As I understand it, every European country that implements the act is
> responsible for setting up a national law, + monitoring and enforcement
> bodies.
> I've been trying to locate a list of countries that have implemented those
> requirements, so far completely without success.
> I would expect to have a table of national regulation to implement the
> EAA + a monitoring body and an enforcement body (the two could be the same).
> The cynic in me is wondering whether the EAA will have any teeth or
> enforcement in practice given that the requirements are so vague and left
> up to individual member countries to implement.
> I hope the cynic in me is wrong. ;)
> Thanks
> -Birkir
>
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Léonie Watson (she/her)
Director
https://tetralogical.com

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