On Monday 17 November, the European Commission published a targeted assessment of the Digital Services Act (DSA), its application and its relationship with a number of other legislative texts. In effect, the report lays the foundations for a potentially even greater simplification of Europe’s digital legislative framework.
While the Commission stresses that this report “is not intended to reopen or re-examine the DSA”, it does aim to “identify areas where further reflection might be warranted as part of the simplification programme”.
54 other legal acts and their links with the DSA are assessed in the report, ranging from data protection and privacy to audiovisual, consumer policy and product safety (see EUROPE 13717/4).
On the whole, these are “complementary” to the DSA, but there are some overlaps, particularly on issues of transparency, reporting,content moderation and “addictive design”, which should be a central point of the Digital Fairness Act (see EUROPE 13683/12).
The analysis legitimises the threshold of 45 million active users for designation as a ‘Very Large Online Platform’. On the other hand, the emergence of artificial intelligence systems and their integration into the scope of the DSA should be actively studied by the European Commission, according to the report. The definition of ‘intermediary services’ could also be reviewed in this respect.
See the report: https://aeur.eu/f/jhe (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)