Citation, commencement and interpretation

1. —(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022.

(2) These Regulations come into force on the day after the day on which they are made.

(3) In these Regulations “ the 2018 Regulations ” means the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018( 2 ).

Amendments to the Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) (No. 2) Accessibility Regulations 2018

2. The 2018 Regulations are amended as follows.

3. In regulation 3—

(a) omit the definitions of “the Directive”, “European standard”, “harmonised standard”, “Official Journal” and “standard”; and

(b) in the definition of “model accessibility statement”, for “adopted by the European Commission in accordance with Article 7(2) of the Directive” substitute “published electronically by the Minister for the Cabinet Office” .

4. For regulation 9 substitute—

“ 9. A website or mobile application of a public sector body will be presumed to be in conformity with the accessibility requirement to the extent that the website or mobile application conforms to Level A and AA Success Criteria as set out in the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines recommended by the World Wide Web Consortium, as amended from time to time ( 3 ) . ”

5. In regulation 10—

(a) in paragraph (2) —

(i) for “2021” substitute “2024” ; and

(ii) for the words “submit a report to the European Commission” substitute “publish a report” ;

(b) omit paragraph (3); and

(c) in paragraph (5) for the words from “established in” to “accessibility requirement” substitute “published by the Minister for the Cabinet Office and as amended from time to time” .

6. Omit the Schedule to the 2018 Regulations.

Revocation of retained direct EU legislation

7. The following retained direct EU legislation is revoked—

(a) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1523 of 11 October 2018 establishing a model accessibility statement in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies( 4 );

(b) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/1524 of 11 October 2018 establishing a monitoring methodology and the arrangements for reporting by Member States in accordance with Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies; and

(c) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2018/2048 of 20 December 2018 on the harmonised standard for websites and mobile applications drafted in support of Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council.