On Friday 31 May, the European Commission announced that it had designated the Chinese online sales platform Temu as a ‘very large online platform’ (‘VLOP’) under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The platform exceeded the threshold of 45 million monthly active users in the EU, the limit specified in the law. As of today, Temu has until the end of September to comply with the most stringent DSA rules applicable to VLOPs.
This includes in particular “the obligation to assess and...