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Contents
CHAPTER I
  • 1. Subject matter
  • 2. Scope
  • 3. Definitions
CHAPTER II
  • 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
CHAPTER III

SECTION 1

  • 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

SECTION 2

  • 16. Notice and action mechanisms
  • 17. Statement of reasons
  • 18. Notification of suspicions of criminal offences

SECTION 3

  • 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

SECTION 4

  • 29. Exclusion for micro and small enterprises
  • 30. Traceability of traders
  • 31. Compliance by design
  • 32. Right to information

SECTION 5

  • 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

SECTION 6

  • 44. Standards
  • 45. Codes of conduct
  • 46. Codes of conduct for online advertising
  • 47. Codes of conduct for accessibility
  • 48. Crisis protocols
CHAPTER IV

SECTION 1

  • 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

SECTION 2

  • 56. Competences
  • 57. Mutual assistance
  • 58. Cross-border cooperation among Digital Services Coordinators
  • 59. Referral to the Commission
  • 60. Joint investigations

SECTION 3

  • 61. European Board for Digital Services
  • 62. Structure of the Board
  • 63. Tasks of the Board

SECTION 4

  • 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

SECTION 5

  • 84. Professional secrecy
  • 85. Information sharing system
  • 86. Representation

SECTION 6

  • 87. Exercise of the delegation
  • 88. Committee procedure
CHAPTER V
  • 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
DSA/CHAPTER II

Article 8

No general monitoring or active fact-finding obligations

No general obligation to monitor the information which providers of intermediary services transmit or store, nor actively to seek facts or circumstances indicating illegal activity shall be imposed on those providers.

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