APG Legal Guarantee Notice

Description

Since 27 September 2026, Article 22a of Directive 2011/83/EU requires every shop selling goods to consumers to display the official EU harmonised notice on the legal guarantee of conformity in a prominent manner. Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 fixes its design and content, and the notice may not be edited, cropped or redrawn.

APG Legal Guarantee Notice ships the notice exactly as the European Commission publishes it, in all 24 official EU languages, and shows each visitor the one in their own language. There is nothing to design and nothing to write.

Features

• The official notice in the 24 official EU languages, served unaltered.
• The language follows the visitor, not the site: a shop reading in German serves the German notice.
• Catalan, Basque and Galician fall back to the Spanish notice, not the English one.
• Opens in a modal on the first click, the pattern the Commission’s practical guidelines illustrate, built with the native popover API and no JavaScript at all.
• Four placements, each with its own settings: a floating button in any of six positions, the last item of any menu, the footer, and the checkout above the place-order button.
• Every placement chooses its own wording style — text, icon and text, or icon only — and its own colours, hover colours and font size, all starting on “inherit from the theme”.
• In the customer order emails, which the guidelines also ask for, with the official PDF attached in the customer’s language.
• The clickable link to Your Europe that has to accompany the notice, in the right language.
• A national note beside the notice for the three-year legal guarantee of Article 120.1 TRLGDCU in Spain, which the uneditable European notice cannot state.
• Your own guarantee terms, with a starting text you edit, and a button that creates a page holding both and selects it as your terms page.
• Shortcodes [apg_guarantee_notice], [apg_guarantee_terms] and [apg_guarantee_button].
• Warns you in the dashboard when no placement is enabled and the notice would not be reaching anyone.
• WPML and Polylang ready for the wording you write, through wpml-config.xml and runtime string registration.
• The notice is cached by the browser for a year, so it costs one request per visitor.
• Works with or without WooCommerce: with it the notice reaches the checkout and the order emails, without it everything else still works.
• No colour, border or font is set by the plugin unless you ask for it, so it inherits the look of your theme, dark themes included.

Translations

• English: by Art Project Group (default language).
• Spanish: by Art Project Group.

Technical support

APG Legal Guarantee Notice is a free plugin. Art Project Group does not provide free technical support, but offers a paid technical support service for installation and configuration.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone who uses the plugin, helps improve it, makes a donation or encourages us with their comments.

If you find this plugin useful, you can support its development with a small donation.

The bundled notice files

The image and PDF files under assets/notices/ are the official harmonised notice on the legal guarantee of conformity, as published by the European Commission and as Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/1960 fixes it. They are not the plugin’s own work and they are not covered by its GPL licence: they are European Commission documents, reused under Commission Decision 2011/833/EU, which authorises the reuse of Commission documents free of charge provided the source is acknowledged. The source is acknowledged here and beside the notice itself, which links to the Commission’s Your Europe portal.

The plugin never edits them, never redraws them and never resizes them: it ships them as they came and serves the bytes it was given. Twenty-three languages are the Commission’s PNG, and English is its SVG, because its raster pack has no English file while its vector pack does. The PDF of every language is the one attached to the order email.

External services

The notice files travel inside the plugin and nothing is downloaded to serve them.

The plugin makes one request to an external service, and only there:

• wordpress.org plugin API (https://api.wordpress.org/plugins/info/1.2/). Asked for the plugin’s own star rating, so the settings screen can show it. It happens only while an administrator is looking at the plugin’s settings screen, at most once a day, and the answer is cached for 24 hours. The request carries the plugin slug and nothing else: no personal data, no site data, no visitor data. It is never made on the front end. Governed by the WordPress.org privacy policy and the terms. If the request fails the screen simply says the rating is unknown.

The notice itself contains a QR code, and the plugin prints the matching clickable link, both pointing at the European Commission’s Your Europe portal (https://europa.eu/youreurope/...). Those are links the visitor may choose to follow; nothing is requested from that site by the plugin.