{"id":433343,"date":"2025-07-28T13:12:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T11:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2025\/07\/28\/lue-temu-ha-violato-il-regolamento-sui-servizi-digitali\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T14:20:37","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T12:20:37","slug":"eu-finds-temu-in-breach-of-digital-services-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2025\/07\/28\/eu-finds-temu-in-breach-of-digital-services-act\/","title":{"rendered":"EU finds Temu in breach of Digital Services Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brussels &#8211; Temu violated the Digital Services Regulation (<span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\"><a href=\"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\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Digital Services Act, DSA) <\/a>&nbsp;by failing to take action to prevent the sale of counterfeit products on its platform, according to the European Commission&#8217;s finding following&nbsp;preliminary checks&nbsp;conducted against the internet operator<\/span><\/span><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">. According to the EU executive, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2024\/10\/11\/risk-of-illegal-sales-eu-seeks-clarification-from-temu-under-dsa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">evidence from the investigation launched in&nbsp;October&nbsp;<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/span><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">showed that there is <strong>a high risk <\/strong>for consumers in the EU <strong>to encounter illegal products on the platform.<\/strong>&#8220;<\/span><\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">In particular, the EU antitrust services continue, the Commission&#8217;s analysis of a&nbsp;<strong>a mystery shopping exercise conducted by the Commission <\/strong>found that consumers shopping on Temu &#8220;are very likely&#8221; to find non-compliant products among the offer, such as baby toys and small electronics.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"HwtZe\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"jCAhz ChMk0b\"><span class=\"ryNqvb\">Now, Temu has the task of proving the contrary and taking appropriate action because if the Commission&#8217;s preliminary findings are confirmed, Brussels will take a non-compliance decision&nbsp;with EU rules. Such a&nbsp;<span class=\"ryNqvb\">decision could result in penalties of up to 6 percent of the supplier&#8217;s total annual worldwide turnover and require the supplier to take steps to remedy the breach.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Commission&#8217;s checks confirm the risks already identified in October: there is a &#8216;high probability&#8217; of finding illegal goods on the site. Corrective measures requested, otherwise there will be heavy fines<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":396908,"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":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","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_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","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","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"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25705,25710],"tags":[26430,31257,26940,26087,26131,29622],"class_list":["post-433343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-net-tech-en","tag-law-on-digital-services-en","tag-dsa-en","tag-internet-en-2","tag-temu-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433343","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\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=433343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433344,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433343\/revisions\/433344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}