On Wednesday 15 November, the European Commission sent an information request to Amazon asking it to report on the mitigating measures taken to protect online consumers, in accordance with the provisions of the Digital Services Act (DSA) (see EUROPE 13262/9).
The Commission’s questions relate in particular to the actions taken by the American company to combat the distribution of illegal products on its platform, and to the compliance - under the DSA - of its recommendation systems.
Amazon must provide the information requested by the Commission by 6 December at the latest. The digital giant will have to convince the Commission services, failing which proceedings could be formally opened. This could result in penalties of up to 6% of the company’s annual global revenue.
The European Commission has already sent requests for information to a number of companies designated as very large online platforms and very large search engines under the DSA.
The Chinese company AliExpress was also questioned by the Commission on 6 November about the measures put in place to protect consumers (see EUROPE 13286/8). Other requests have been made to X (formerly Twitter) (see EUROPE 13271/13), Meta and TikTok (see EUROPE 13275/4) and Google and YouTube (see EUROPE 13271/14) concerning the fight against illegal online content and disinformation.
On 6 November, the 19 major digital companies subject to the DSA published their first transparency reports (see EUROPE 13286/7). (Original version in French by Thomas Mangin)