CHAPTER II · OBLIGATIONS OF ECONOMIC OPERATORS AND PROVISIONS IN RELATION TO FREE AND OPEN-SOURCE SOFTWARE
Article 22 — Other cases in which obligations of manufacturers apply
OFFICIAL TEXTRegulation (EU) 2024/2847·Official language version: English (EN)··Retrieved 2 November 2026·View on EUR-Lex
The 3 corrections published in the Official Journal for the English version are applied and marked in the text. This is not an official consolidated version: only the texts published in the Official Journal are authentic. Regulation (EU) 2025/327 amends Articles 13(4) and 31(3) and inserts Article 32(5a); these changes are marked but not merged. Versions and sources
Official text of Article 22
OFFICIAL TEXTVerbatim, as published. Not rewritten.
1.
A natural or legal person, other than the manufacturer, the importer or the distributor, that carries out a substantial modification of a product with digital elements and makes that product available on the market, shall be considered to be a manufacturer for the purposes of this Regulation.
2.
The person referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be subject to the obligations set out in Articles 13 and 14 for the part of the product with digital elements that is affected by the substantial modification or, if the substantial modification has an impact on the cybersecurity of the product with digital elements as a whole, for the entire product.
regulation-cra.eu/regulation/articles/22 · Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 · EN · OJ L, 2024/2847, 20.11.2024 · corrigenda applied · retrieved 2026-11-02 · Only the Official Journal text is authentic.
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