{"id":337287,"date":"2024-02-16T12:20:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2024\/02\/16\/digital-services-act-in-vigore-ue\/"},"modified":"2024-02-20T15:25:07","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T14:25:07","slug":"the-compliance-process-is-complete-as-of-tomorrow-the-digital-services-act-will-be-fully-in-force-in-the-eu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/02\/16\/the-compliance-process-is-complete-as-of-tomorrow-the-digital-services-act-will-be-fully-in-force-in-the-eu\/","title":{"rendered":"The compliance process is complete. As of tomorrow, the Digital Services Act will be fully in force in the EU"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels – The more than three-year-long process is drawing to a close, with the implementation, in the European Union, of a law that will bring order to digital services.\u00a0The Digital Services Act will come fully into force tomorrow (Feb. 17)<\/strong>, when all online companies will have to fulfill their obligations under the new Regulation proposed by the Commission in December 2020 and agreed upon by the co-legislators of the EU Parliament and Council in the spring of two years ago.<\/p>\n

From tomorrow,\u00a0platforms and search engines with less than 45 million monthly active users<\/strong>\u00a0will have to comply with the guidance of the\u00a0new EU Regulation<\/a>\u00a0to empower and protect online users by\u00a0mitigating “systemic risks” and applying “robust content moderation tools.”<\/strong>\u00a0These include content profiling and recommendation systems, privacy and safety of minors online, illegal content and negative effects on freedom of expression and information, and access to data for researchers through a special mechanism. From\u00a0February 17, a new pan-European supervisory architecture<\/strong>\u00a0will be in place, with the Commission as the competent authority but in close cooperation with national digital services coordinators under the Digital Services Act (including Agcom for Italy), responsible for supervising of smaller platforms and search engines. A\u00a0European Center for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT)\u00a0<\/strong>will assist to all supervisors\u00a0in assessing whether the operation of algorithms is in line with the red lines of EU legislation. The European Commission will oversee\u00a0the 19 digital service providers<\/a> identified as dominant online players – and who had to provide a risk assessment on their\u00a0platforms – and\u00a0has already begun moving since the fall of last year to assess possible breaches<\/a>\u00a0of the Digital Services Act. These dominant players are the\u00a0two large search engines<\/strong> (VLOSEs, in jargon) – Bing and Google Search – and 17 large online platforms<\/strong> (VLOPs): social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, TikTok, Snapchat, LinkedIn, Pinterest), e-commerce services (Alibaba AliExpress, Amazon Store, Apple AppStore, Zalando), Google services (Google Play, Google Maps, and Google Shopping), and also Booking.com, Wikipedia, and YouTube.<\/p>\n

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From left: European Commission Vice-President for Digital, Margrethe Vestager, and Internal Market Commissioner, Thierry Breton (Dec. 15, 2020)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The EU Commission presented a proposal for a digital package on December 15, 2020, comprising the Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act. After just over a year of negotiations in the EU Parliament and Council and between co-legislators, the final agreement was reached\u00a0on April 25, 2022, enshrining the cornerstone of “what is illegal offline, is illegal online.” On\u00a0November 16, the Digital Services Act partially entered into force -applying primarily to large platforms – introducing fines of up to 6 percent of global turnover<\/strong> for violations of the Regulations.<\/p>\n

Obligations under the Digital Services Act<\/h3>\n

Obligations under the Digital Services Act encourage accountability and protection for online users through the mitigation of “systemic risks” and the application of “robust content moderation tools.” Users will have to receive “clear” information about why certain information is being recommended and will have the\u00a0right to opt out of recommendation systems based on profiling (still prohibited for minors). <\/strong>Advertisements cannot be based on sensitive user data (ethnic origin, political views, sexual orientation). Regarding the protection of minors, platforms will have to redesign their systems to ensure a “high level” of privacy and security.\u00a0\"Digital<\/a><\/p>\n

The Digital Services Act will also include labels on all ads and information about who promotes them, with an obligation for platforms to process user reports on illegal content through a special mechanism. This will require measures to address risks and negative effects on freedom of expression and information<\/strong> through “clear” terms and conditions and compliance “in a diligent and non-arbitrary manner.” There will also be external and independent evaluations, including access to data for researchers through a special mechanism<\/strong>. Archives of all ads served will have to be published on the interface of the platforms, as well as transparency reports on moderation decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

As of Feb. 17, all online companies will have to fulfill their obligations under the European Union’s new Digital Services Regulation and national coordinators for platforms and search engines with fewer than 45 million monthly active users will begin operating. The Commission will oversee the 19 largest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5647,"featured_media":262912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"source_name":"","source_url":"","via_name":"","via_url":"","override_template":"0","override":[{"template":"1","single_blog_custom":"","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_share_counter":"0","show_view_counter":"0","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"override_image_size":"0","image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post":"0","trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post":"0","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","sponsored_post_name":"","sponsored_post_url":"","sponsored_post_logo_enable":"0","sponsored_post_logo":"","sponsored_post_desc":"","disable_ad":"0"},"jnews_primary_category":{"id":"","hide":""},"jnews_override_counter":{"override_view_counter":"0","view_counter_number":"0","override_share_counter":"0","share_counter_number":"0","override_like_counter":"0","like_counter_number":"0","override_dislike_counter":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25710],"tags":[26090,26086,26089,26087],"class_list":["post-337287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-net-tech-en","tag-services-digital-en","tag-digital-services-act-en","tag-law-digital-services-en","tag-dsa-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337287","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337287"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337287\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337825,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337287\/revisions\/337825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}