CHAPTER I · 3 articles
Read CHAPTER IRegulation (EU) 2022/2065
The Digital Services Act
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act)
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CHAPTER II · 7 articles
LIABILITY OF PROVIDERS OF INTERMEDIARY SERVICES
- Art. 4 ‘Mere conduit’
- Art. 5 ‘Caching’
- Art. 6 Hosting
- Art. 7 Voluntary own-initiative investigations and legal compliance
- Art. 8 No general monitoring or active fact-finding obligations
- Art. 9 Orders to act against illegal content
- Art. 10 Orders to provide information
CHAPTER III · 38 articles
DUE DILIGENCE OBLIGATIONS FOR A TRANSPARENT AND SAFE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
- SECTION 1 — Provisions applicable to all providers of intermediary services (Art. 11–15)
- SECTION 2 — Additional provisions applicable to providers of hosting services, including online platforms (Art. 16–18)
- SECTION 3 — Additional provisions applicable to providers of online platforms (Art. 19–28)
- SECTION 4 — Additional provisions applicable to providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders (Art. 29–32)
- SECTION 5 — Additional obligations for providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines to manage systemic risks (Art. 33–43)
- SECTION 6 — Other provisions concerning due diligence obligations (Art. 44–48)
CHAPTER IV · 40 articles
IMPLEMENTATION, COOPERATION, PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT
- SECTION 1 — Competent authorities and national Digital Services Coordinators (Art. 49–55)
- SECTION 2 — Competences, coordinated investigation and consistency mechanisms (Art. 56–60)
- SECTION 3 — European Board for Digital Services (Art. 61–63)
- SECTION 4 — Supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring in respect of providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines (Art. 64–83)
- SECTION 5 — Common provisions on enforcement (Art. 84–86)
- SECTION 6 — Delegated and implementing acts (Art. 87–88)
CHAPTER V · 5 articles
FINAL PROVISIONS
- Art. 89 Amendments to Directive 2000/31/EC
- Art. 90 Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- Art. 91 Review
- Art. 92 Anticipated application to providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
- Art. 93 Entry into force and application
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