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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 IV/SECTION 6

Article 88

Committee procedure

1.The Commission shall be assisted by a committee (‘the Digital Services Committee’). That Committee shall be a Committee within the meaning of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011.

2.Where reference is made to this paragraph, Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 182/2011 shall apply.

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