EAA Penalties
Sanctions for EAA non-compliance are set by each Member State and must be 'effective, proportionate and dissuasive.' Penalty ceilings vary widely: Germany up to €100,000 per infringement under BFSG; Ireland up to €60,000 plus possible imprisonment; the Netherlands and France use periodic-penalty and administrative-fine regimes. Repeat or serious cases can trigger market-access restriction.
The fines and sanctions for breaking the EU Accessibility Act — set by each country, and meant to sting enough to deter.
Article 30 of the EAA sets the principle; the specific amounts and procedures live in national transpositions. Operators serving multiple Member States face cumulative exposure — a single defect across 27 markets is 27 separate enforcement risks.
Why this matters
The headline penalty number rarely tells the full story. The bigger commercial risks are market-access restriction (a Member State ordering a non-compliant service to be withdrawn or modified), reputational impact, and downstream consequences in B2B procurement where buyers require EAA conformance up the supply chain.