The European Commission adopted, on Friday 20 October, a delegated act concerning the rules on independent audits to be carried out to assess the compliance of very large online platforms and very large search engines under the Digital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE B13262A9).
The Commission defines, in the adopted delegated act, the steps that the designated services must follow to verify the independence of the auditors and those that the auditors must apply to carry out their controls....