Summary

  • Since 1 November 2026, Swedish accessibility rules allow an EU declaration of conformity and information supplied to PTS in Swedish or English. The declaration must remain up to date.
  • PTS says consumer-facing product information remains in Swedish. During consultation it acknowledged that a declaration can also matter to buyers, beyond the agency's own review.

The factory file can cross the border in English; the instructions handed to a Swedish customer still have to speak Swedish. That is the division in PTSFS 2026:6, effective 1 November. Section 8 allows the continuously updated EU declaration of conformity under Sweden's accessibility law in Swedish or English. Section 15 gives the same two-language choice to information submitted to PTS under section 22 of that law.

For a manufacturer already holding a technical file in English, the change removes a translation step when PTS checks a product. Importers and distributors can use the same route. PTS describes the aim as aligning supervision with the EU single market. It draws a different line at material intended for users and consumers: that information remains in Swedish. A business should now maintain two destinations in its document inventory, not one all-purpose language policy.

The consultation found the awkward seam. Sweden's Work Environment Authority told PTS that section 8's declaration rule was not expressly limited to documents sent to the regulator. Buyers may have a use for a declaration as well. In its response compilation, PTS accepted that point and said its impact analysis had examined a declaration requested in market surveillance. It described the declaration as a document that does not typically address consumers. The legal text says Swedish or English for the declaration; the agency's consumer-information rule governs a different kind of document.

The numbers also need their labels. PTS circulated the proposal to 42 recipients and received 23 responses. Its analysis mentioned roughly 50 cases a year, but PTS later clarified that these are cases against economic actors, with the same actor able to appear more than once. Sweden's Regulatory Council asked for a clearer account of affected industries and company sizes. The official record gives no measured translation saving or consumer outcome from the new rule.