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Regulatory-watch notes on the AI Act, accessibility and consent: primary law, dated, read at source. No legal characterisation — I report; your counsel decides.
The CNIL public sanctions list is not a live feed
A sanction made public on 3 September 2026, dated 21 July, still absent from the public list on 7 September. What a company's absence from that list does not prove.
The implementing décret behind article 47 was amended on 24 August 2026
Décret n° 2026-816 amends décret n° 2019-768. I have not read the amending text, so I will not say what it changes — but everything attributed to the 2019 décret is now of unconfirmed currency.
RGAA 5 is not published. EN 301 549 V4.1.1 exists, and is not cited in the OJEU.
Two texts are moving at once and neither yet has the effect attributed to it: a dated reading, on 7 September 2026, of RGAA 5 and of EN 301 549 V4.1.1.
Cookie consent gets tested in one browser. The CNIL recommendation talks about every device.
Délibération n° 2025-131 of 18 December 2025 inserts an article on consentement multi-terminaux into recommendation n° 2020-092. What it describes, and why a private browsing window does not test it.
The DGCCRF is also investigating accessibility auditors
The June 2026 DGCCRF bilan: three investigations opened since January, one covering both e-commerce site accessibility AND the fairness of the firms that audit them. Three questions to ask your provider.
Accessibility: Caen condemns, Lille dismisses — the case law is split, and no one says so
Two tribunaux judiciaires, opposite outcomes on e-commerce accessibility, the same basis (L. 412-13). What Caen set aside, the Douai appeal, and the real arithmetic of the amounts.
Article 50: the guidelines land 12 days before the deadline — what they settle
Transparency obligations from 2 August 2026, the C(2026) 5054 guidelines content approved, the 50(4) cut-off asymmetry: what actually changes.