European Accessibility Act in Sweden: Lag (2023:254), who must comply, what's required

Lag (2023:254) om vissa produkters och tjänsters tillgänglighet — the Act on the accessibility of certain products and services — is Sweden's transposition of the European Accessibility Act, Directive (EU) 2019/882, into national law. Issued by the Ministry of Social Affairs in 2023, its requirements for covered products and services apply from 28 June 2025, the same date as across the rest of the EU. This guide covers who the law binds, what it requires, and where the official text sits.

What the law does

Lag (2023:254) is Sweden's dedicated act for the private-sector accessibility requirements the EAA introduces — separate from the country's existing public-sector accessibility rules for government websites and apps. The requirements themselves are harmonised across the EU: a product or service that meets them can circulate across the single market without a separate assessment in each Member State.

Who is covered

• Products: consumer computer hardware and operating systems, self-service terminals (payment terminals, ATMs, ticketing and check-in machines, interactive information kiosks), consumer terminal equipment for telecoms and audiovisual media, and e-readers.
• Services: e-commerce, consumer banking services, electronic communications services, services providing access to audiovisual media, elements of air, bus, rail and waterborne passenger transport, and e-books.

E-commerce is, as everywhere in the EU, the category with the widest practical reach for Swedish businesses: any website or app through which a consumer can conclude a distance contract.

The microenterprise exemption

Service providers with fewer than 10 staff and an annual turnover or balance sheet total not exceeding EUR 2 million are exempt from the service obligations — the directive's own EU-wide threshold, unchanged by the Swedish transposition. Microenterprises dealing in covered products remain in scope, with reduced documentation duties.

The statement obligation

As under every EAA transposition, providers of covered services must make available information on how the service meets the accessibility requirements — Sweden's counterpart to what Germany documents through Anlage 3 of the BFSG. The information has to be where a consumer can actually find it, and kept current as the service changes.

How Swedish businesses demonstrate compliance

There is no separate Swedish certification scheme. As across the EU, conformance with EN 301 549 — the harmonised ICT accessibility standard, which for web content converges with WCAG 2.1 AA — creates a presumption of conformity with the legal requirements. See our EN 301 549 guide for what it actually tests. An independent audit against that standard, plus the published statement above, is the evidence base that holds up under scrutiny.

Where to find the primary source

The Riksdag's Svensk författningssamling publishes the current, consolidated text — the source to check for exact wording, not a secondary summary. We do not quote a specific penalty figure for Sweden here: we have not verified a sanctions amount against the primary legal text, and repeating an unverified figure would be worse than leaving it out.

Next step

Run a free scan against the Swedish rule set to see how your accessibility statement and technical conformance measure up today, then compare against providers who audit specifically for EN 301 549 / EAA compliance.