Country reference
Germany
National implementing law
Substantive obligations effective: 2025-06-28.
Enforcement body
Marktueberwachungsstelle der Laender fuer die Barrierefreiheit von Produkten und Dienstleistungen (MLBF), the joint federal-states market surveillance authority is the designated national authority.
Scope
Applies to economic operators placing in-scope consumer products on the German market and to providers of in-scope services (e-commerce, consumer banking, e-books, electronic communications, passenger transport information, telephony services) to consumers in Germany from 28 June 2025. Microenterprises (fewer than 10 employees AND annual turnover or balance-sheet total up to EUR 2 million) providing services are exempt from the substantive service requirements, per Section 3 BFSG in combination with the EAA. Product obligations for microenterprises are lighter but not eliminated.
What is unclear
Honest gaps in this article. If you need certainty on any of these, the authoritative source is the primary law text linked above, not this page.
- We consulted the gesetze-im-internet.de entry and search summaries but did not read the full statutory text article-by-article; specific section numbers other than those verified via search summaries are not asserted here.
- The MLBF began operations on 26 September 2025 per press coverage; the exact URL of the MLBF's official site was retrieved via search results rather than confirmed via a direct government link, so treat the URL as provisional.
- We did not assert a specific fine cap because we did not confirm it in the primary text of BFSG.
Practical notes
Before the MLBF was created, enforcement was to be handled by individual Laender authorities; the sixteen federal states then agreed to establish a joint body (MLBF) based in Magdeburg. Enforcement patterns and publicly reported decisions are not yet established as of the research date.
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