Recital 34

(34) A durable medium, including paper and interoperable, portable and machine-readable digital versions of documents, should allow information to be addressed personally to the consumer, it should enable the consumer to store information in a way that is accessible for future reference and for a period of time adequate for the purposes of the information, it should allow the unchanged reproduction of the information stored and it should ensure readability of the information so that the information can be read and referred to. Consumers should have the possibility to choose the type of durable medium on which to receive information at the pre-contractual stage and once the contract is concluded, and on which to notify their withdrawal. However, consumers should not be able to notify their withdrawal and to require creditors or, where applicable, credit intermediaries to provide information on types of durable medium that are not commonly used.

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Source: EUR-Lex CELLAR · retrieved 2026-07-30 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.