{
  "name": "Dated EU consumer obligations for online sellers",
  "description": "Every date here was fetched from that instrument's own EUR-Lex page at build time and asserted before the file was written. Where a national provision appears, it was read from the official national register.",
  "verified_on": "2026-09-10",
  "method": "scripts/build-deadlines-data.py refuses to write the file if EUR-Lex disagrees with any date in it",
  "license": {
    "terms": "Free to reuse, including commercially, with attribution.",
    "attribution": "Cooloff — https://cooloffapp.com/"
  },
  "disclaimer": "This reproduces dates and wording from official sources and situates them. It is not legal advice, and whether a duty applies to a given business is a separate question.",
  "not_yet_read": "The national implementations of GPSR, the Omnibus price rule and Directive (EU) 2024/825 have not been read from national registers here. Only the Union-level dates are given for those, and the German and Austrian withdrawal-button provisions are the ones that were read first-hand.",
  "duties": [
    {
      "id": "omnibus-price",
      "celex": "32019L2161",
      "instrument": "Directive (EU) 2019/2161 amending, among others, Directive 98/6/EC",
      "provisions": "Art. 6a of Directive 98/6/EC",
      "summary": {
        "en": "Any price-reduction announcement must state the lowest price applied in the 30 days before the reduction.",
        "de": "Jede Bekanntgabe einer Preisermäßigung muss den niedrigsten Preis nennen, der in den 30 Tagen vor der Ermäßigung angewandt wurde."
      },
      "in_force": "2020-01-07",
      "transposition_deadline": "2021-11-28",
      "applies_from": "2022-05-28",
      "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32019L2161",
      "national_provisions_read": {}
    },
    {
      "id": "gpsr",
      "celex": "32023R0988",
      "instrument": "Regulation (EU) 2023/988 on general product safety",
      "provisions": "Art. 19 (distance selling) and Art. 16",
      "summary": {
        "en": "For every product offered online: the manufacturer's name and contact details, the EU responsible person where the manufacturer is outside the Union, and information identifying the product.",
        "de": "Für jedes online angebotene Produkt: Name und Kontaktdaten des Herstellers, die verantwortliche Person in der EU, wenn der Hersteller außerhalb der Union sitzt, sowie Angaben zur Identifizierung des Produkts."
      },
      "in_force": "2023-06-12",
      "transposition_deadline": null,
      "applies_from": "2024-12-13",
      "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32023R0988",
      "national_provisions_read": {}
    },
    {
      "id": "withdrawal-button",
      "celex": "32023L2673",
      "instrument": "Directive (EU) 2023/2673 amending Directive 2011/83/EU",
      "provisions": "Art. 11a of Directive 2011/83/EU",
      "summary": {
        "en": "A withdrawal function on the online interface, with prescribed button wording, a form, a separate confirmation step, and an acknowledgement of receipt on a durable medium carrying the content of the declaration and the date and time it arrived.",
        "de": "Eine Widerrufsfunktion auf der Online-Benutzeroberfläche, mit vorgeschriebener Beschriftung, Formular, separater Bestätigungsfunktion und einer Eingangsbestätigung auf einem dauerhaften Datenträger, die den Inhalt der Erklärung sowie Datum und Uhrzeit des Eingangs enthält."
      },
      "in_force": "2023-12-18",
      "transposition_deadline": "2025-12-19",
      "applies_from": "2026-06-19",
      "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32023L2673",
      "national_provisions_read": {
        "DE": {
          "provision": "§ 356a BGB",
          "in_force": "2026-06-19",
          "source": "https://www.gesetze-im-internet.de/bgb/__356a.html",
          "note_en": "Labels „Vertrag widerrufen“ and „Widerruf bestätigen“, each allowing „eine andere gleichbedeutende eindeutige Formulierung“. Abs. 4 owes the acknowledgement without undue delay on a durable medium, with the content of the declaration and the date and time of receipt."
        },
        "AT": {
          "provision": "§ 13a FAGG",
          "in_force": "2026-10-01",
          "enacted_by": "BGBl. I Nr. 59/2026",
          "ris": {
            "paragraph": "NOR40279256",
            "transitional": "NOR40279262"
          },
          "source": "https://www.ris.bka.gv.at/",
          "note_en": "Applies to contracts concluded after 30 September 2026 (§ 20 Abs. 5). Abs. 4 says the confirmation function must be labelled „gut lesbar und ausschließlich“ with „Widerruf bestätigen“ or a corresponding unambiguous formulation — the word „ausschließlich“ has no equivalent in the German § 356a Abs. 3."
        }
      }
    },
    {
      "id": "green-transition",
      "celex": "32024L0825",
      "instrument": "Directive (EU) 2024/825 amending Directives 2005/29/EC and 2011/83/EU",
      "provisions": "amends Art. 6 and 6a of Directive 2011/83/EU and Annex I of 2005/29/EC",
      "summary": {
        "en": "Information on the legal guarantee of conformity before the consumer is bound, a harmonised label where a commercial guarantee of durability over two years is offered free of charge, and new rules on environmental claims.",
        "de": "Informationen zur gesetzlichen Gewährleistung, bevor der Verbraucher gebunden ist, ein harmonisiertes Label, wo eine kostenlose gewerbliche Haltbarkeitsgarantie von über zwei Jahren angeboten wird, sowie neue Regeln für Umweltaussagen."
      },
      "in_force": "2024-03-26",
      "transposition_deadline": "2026-03-27",
      "applies_from": "2026-09-27",
      "source_url": "https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/ALL/?uri=CELEX%3A32024L0825",
      "national_provisions_read": {}
    }
  ]
}