Joint civil society statement on transparency of risk assessments under the Digital Services Act
The statement, co-signed by ECNL within the DSA Civil Society Coordination Group, sets out what a transparent risk assessment must disclose: detailed methodology, descriptions of algorithmic and advertising systems, risks tied to specific platform functionalities, mitigation measures, which teams/stakeholders were involved, and how audit recommendations fed back into mitigation.
Executive summary
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This is a coalition position statement rather than an independent analytical report: ECNL and fellow Civil Society Coordination Group members translated their findings from reviewing the first round of published risk assessments into a concrete disclosure checklist, then publicly pressed the Commission and platforms to adopt it going forward. It functions as connective tissue between ECNL’s 2023 FRIA framework and its 2026 ‘Five critical lessons’ audit, restating largely the same gaps as demands rather than as findings.
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