Who has to comply
Public-sector since 2020; consumer services from 28 June 2025.
Latvia is a small Baltic market with high digital-service adoption, and cross-border sellers targeting the Baltic region routinely reach Latvian consumers. Under the EAA-implementing legislation extending Cabinet Regulation 445/2020, a foreign store selling to Latvian consumers is covered on the country-of-consumption basis. A Latvian-language accessibility statement is expected, and it is a distinct requirement from any Lithuanian or Estonian localisation a regional seller may have prepared.
What the law actually requires
CR 445/2020 + EAA sets the technical bar at WCAG 2.1 Level AA via EN 301 549. On top of it, Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 445/2020 lists these operational duties:
- EN 301 549 / WCAG 2.1 AA
- Latvian-language statement
Penalties and how enforcement actually works
Administrative penalties; VARAM publishes monitoring results.
Enforcement sits with VARAM, the Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development, which administers the accessibility regime and publishes monitoring results. Latvia's model is transparency-inflected: VARAM's practice of publishing monitoring outcomes means a foreign seller's shortcomings can become publicly visible. Enforcement is otherwise centralised and largely complaint- and sampling-driven, with administrative penalties, and the published results give early-cycle attention to clearly measurable failures.
Reading the CR 445/2020 + EAA at the source
The law is cited as Cabinet Regulation 445/2020 + EAA implementation (Ministru kabineta noteikumi Nr. 445/2020). Enforcement: VARAM (Ministry of Environmental Protection and Regional Development). Key date: 28 June 2025. We have not yet linked a verified national source for Latvia; the European Commission's EAA page under Sources describes the EU directive the national law implements.
Sources
- European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882) · European Commission
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