Digital Services Act — Regulation (EU) 2022/2065
Duties for online services, notice handling and transparency.
What we read it for
The act behind our notice and reporting routines for anything published through the platform.
Identity
| Type | Regulation |
| Identifier | EU 2022/2065 |
| CELEX | 32022R2065 |
| Adopted | 2022-10-19 |
| In force | 2022-11-16 |
| Applies from | 2024-02-17 |
93 articles in the base act
Structure
| Chapter | Act | Articles |
|---|---|---|
| I | General provisions | 1–2 |
| II | Liability of providers of intermediary services | 4–10 |
| III | Due diligence obligations for a transparent and safe online environment | 11–48 |
| IV | Implementation, cooperation, penalties and enforcement | 49–88 |
| V | Final provisions | 89–93 |
Articles
93 articles are read into the register, one address each.
- 1 · Subject matter
- 2 · Scope
- 3 · Definitions
- 4 · ‘Mere conduit’
- 5 · ‘Caching’
- 6 · Hosting
- 7 · Voluntary own-initiative investigations and legal compliance
- 8 · No general monitoring or active fact-finding obligations
- 9 · Orders to act against illegal content
- 10 · Orders to provide information
- 11 · Points of contact for Member States’ authorities, the Commission and the Board
- 12 · Points of contact for recipients of the service
- 13 · Legal representatives
- 14 · Terms and conditions
- 15 · Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services
- 16 · Notice and action mechanisms
- 17 · Statement of reasons
- 18 · Notification of suspicions of criminal offences
- 19 · Exclusion for micro and small enterprises
- 20 · Internal complaint-handling system
- 21 · Out-of-court dispute settlement
- 22 · Trusted flaggers
- 23 · Measures and protection against misuse
- 24 · Transparency reporting obligations for providers of online platforms
- 25 · Online interface design and organisation
- 26 · Advertising on online platforms
- 27 · Recommender system transparency
- 28 · Online protection of minors
- 29 · Exclusion for micro and small enterprises
- 30 · Traceability of traders
- 31 · Compliance by design
- 32 · Right to information
- 33 · Very large online platforms and very large online search engines
- 34 · Risk assessment
- 35 · Mitigation of risks
- 36 · Crisis response mechanism
- 37 · Independent audit
- 38 · Recommender systems
- 39 · Additional online advertising transparency
- 40 · Data access and scrutiny
- 41 · Compliance function
- 42 · Transparency reporting obligations
- 43 · Supervisory fee
- 44 · Standards
- 45 · Codes of conduct
- 46 · Codes of conduct for online advertising
- 47 · Codes of conduct for accessibility
- 48 · Crisis protocols
- 49 · Competent authorities and Digital Services Coordinators
- 50 · Requirements for Digital Services Coordinators
- 51 · Powers of Digital Services Coordinators
- 52 · Penalties
- 53 · Right to lodge a complaint
- 54 · Compensation
- 55 · Activity reports
- 56 · Competences
- 57 · Mutual assistance
- 58 · Cross-border cooperation among Digital Services Coordinators
- 59 · Referral to the Commission
- 60 · Joint investigations
- 61 · European Board for Digital Services
- 62 · Structure of the Board
- 63 · Tasks of the Board
- 64 · Development of expertise and capabilities
- 65 · Enforcement of obligations of providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
- 66 · Initiation of proceedings by the Commission and cooperation in investigation
- 67 · Requests for information
- 68 · Power to take interviews and statements
- 69 · Power to conduct inspections
- 70 · Interim measures
- 71 · Commitments
- 72 · Monitoring actions
- 73 · Non-compliance
- 74 · Fines
- 75 · Enhanced supervision of remedies to address infringements of obligations laid down in Section 5 of Chapter III
- 76 · Periodic penalty payments
- 77 · Limitation period for the imposition of penalties
- 78 · Limitation period for the enforcement of penalties
- 79 · Right to be heard and access to the file
- 80 · Publication of decisions
- 81 · Review by the Court of Justice of the European Union
- 82 · Requests for access restrictions and cooperation with national courts
- 83 · Implementing acts relating to Commission intervention
- 84 · Professional secrecy
- 85 · Information sharing system
- 86 · Representation
- 87 · Exercise of the delegation
- 88 · Committee procedure
- 89 · Amendments to Directive 2000/31/EC
- 90 · Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- 91 · Review
- 92 · Anticipated application to providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
- 93 · Entry into force and application
Language versions
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Norwegian is not an official EU language. Norwegian readers use the national register.
National law
One line per country. A line exists only when a primary source has been read; otherwise the national register is linked instead.
| National law | Identifier | Official text |
|---|---|---|
| Sweden: Lag med kompletterande bestämmelser till EU:s förordning om digitala tjänster | SFS 2024:954 | Official text |
| Denmark: Lov om håndhævelse af forordningen om et indre marked for digitale tjenester | LOV nr 1765 af 28/12/2023 | Official text |
| Finland: Laki digitaalisten palvelujen tarjoamisesta annetun lain muuttamisesta | 606/2024 | Official text |
| Germany: Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz | DDG | Official text |
| Norway: Line not read yet | — | National register |
| United Kingdom: Outside this jurisdiction | — | National register |
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