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CHAPTER I · GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 4 — Free movement

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 4

OFFICIAL TEXTVerbatim, as published. Not rewritten.
1.

Member States shall not impede, for the matters covered by this Regulation, the making available on the market of products with digital elements which comply with this Regulation.

2.

At trade fairs, exhibitions, demonstrations or similar events, Member States shall not prevent the presentation or use of a product with digital elements which does not comply with this Regulation, including its prototypes, provided that the product is presented with a visible sign clearly indicating that it does not comply with this Regulation and that it is not to be made available on the market until it does so.

3.

Member States shall not prevent the making available on the market of unfinished software which does not comply with this Regulation, provided that the software is made available only for a limited period required for testing purposes with a visible sign clearly indicating that it does not comply with this Regulation and that it will not be available on the market for purposes other than testing.

4.

Paragraph 3 does not apply to safety components as referred to in Union harmonisation legislation other than this Regulation.