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- Art. 1 Subject matter
- Art. 2 Scope
- Art. 3 Definitions
- Art. 4 ‘Mere conduit’
- Art. 5 ‘Caching’
- Art. 6 Hosting
- Art. 7 Voluntary own-initiative investigations and legal compliance
- Art. 8 No general monitoring or active fact-finding obligations
- Art. 9 Orders to act against illegal content
- Art. 10 Orders to provide information
- Art. 11 Points of contact for Member States’ authorities, the Commission and the Board
- Art. 12 Points of contact for recipients of the service
- Art. 13 Legal representatives
- Art. 14 Terms and conditions
- Art. 15 Transparency reporting obligations for providers of intermediary services
- Art. 16 Notice and action mechanisms
- Art. 17 Statement of reasons
- Art. 18 Notification of suspicions of criminal offences
- Art. 19 Exclusion for micro and small enterprises
- Art. 20 Internal complaint-handling system
- Art. 21 Out-of-court dispute settlement
- Art. 22 Trusted flaggers
- Art. 23 Measures and protection against misuse
- Art. 24 Transparency reporting obligations for providers of online platforms
- Art. 25 Online interface design and organisation
- Art. 26 Advertising on online platforms
- Art. 27 Recommender system transparency
- Art. 28 Online protection of minors
- Art. 29 Exclusion for micro and small enterprises
- Art. 30 Traceability of traders
- Art. 31 Compliance by design
- Art. 32 Right to information
- Art. 33 Very large online platforms and very large online search engines
- Art. 34 Risk assessment
- Art. 35 Mitigation of risks
- Art. 36 Crisis response mechanism
- Art. 37 Independent audit
- Art. 38 Recommender systems
- Art. 39 Additional online advertising transparency
- Art. 40 Data access and scrutiny
- Art. 41 Compliance function
- Art. 42 Transparency reporting obligations
- Art. 43 Supervisory fee
- Art. 44 Standards
- Art. 45 Codes of conduct
- Art. 46 Codes of conduct for online advertising
- Art. 47 Codes of conduct for accessibility
- Art. 48 Crisis protocols
- Art. 49 Competent authorities and Digital Services Coordinators
- Art. 50 Requirements for Digital Services Coordinators
- Art. 51 Powers of Digital Services Coordinators
- Art. 52 Penalties
- Art. 53 Right to lodge a complaint
- Art. 54 Compensation
- Art. 55 Activity reports
- Art. 56 Competences
- Art. 57 Mutual assistance
- Art. 58 Cross-border cooperation among Digital Services Coordinators
- Art. 59 Referral to the Commission
- Art. 60 Joint investigations
- Art. 61 European Board for Digital Services
- Art. 62 Structure of the Board
- Art. 63 Tasks of the Board
- Art. 64 Development of expertise and capabilities
- Art. 65 Enforcement of obligations of providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
- Art. 66 Initiation of proceedings by the Commission and cooperation in investigation
- Art. 67 Requests for information
- Art. 68 Power to take interviews and statements
- Art. 69 Power to conduct inspections
- Art. 70 Interim measures
- Art. 71 Commitments
- Art. 72 Monitoring actions
- Art. 73 Non-compliance
- Art. 74 Fines
- Art. 75 Enhanced supervision of remedies to address infringements of obligations laid down in Section 5 of Chapter III
- Art. 76 Periodic penalty payments
- Art. 77 Limitation period for the imposition of penalties
- Art. 78 Limitation period for the enforcement of penalties
- Art. 79 Right to be heard and access to the file
- Art. 80 Publication of decisions
- Art. 81 Review by the Court of Justice of the European Union
- Art. 82 Requests for access restrictions and cooperation with national courts
- Art. 83 Implementing acts relating to Commission intervention
- Art. 84 Professional secrecy
- Art. 85 Information sharing system
- Art. 86 Representation
- Art. 87 Exercise of the delegation
- Art. 88 Committee procedure
- Art. 89 Amendments to Directive 2000/31/EC
- Art. 90 Amendment to Directive (EU) 2020/1828
- Art. 91 Review
- Art. 92 Anticipated application to providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
- Article 93 Entry into force and application
CHAPTER I
GENERAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER II
LIABILITY OF PROVIDERS OF INTERMEDIARY SERVICES
CHAPTER III
DUE DILIGENCE OBLIGATIONS FOR A TRANSPARENT AND SAFE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
SECTION 1
Provisions applicable to all providers of intermediary services
SECTION 2
Additional provisions applicable to providers of hosting services, including online platforms
SECTION 3
Additional provisions applicable to providers of online platforms
SECTION 4
Additional provisions applicable to providers of online platforms allowing consumers to conclude distance contracts with traders
SECTION 5
Additional obligations for providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines to manage systemic risks
SECTION 6
Other provisions concerning due diligence obligations
CHAPTER IV
IMPLEMENTATION, COOPERATION, PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT
SECTION 1
Competent authorities and national Digital Services Coordinators
SECTION 2
Competences, coordinated investigation and consistency mechanisms
SECTION 3
European Board for Digital Services
SECTION 4
Supervision, investigation, enforcement and monitoring in respect of providers of very large online platforms and of very large online search engines
SECTION 5
Common provisions on enforcement
SECTION 6
Delegated and implementing acts
CHAPTER V
FINAL PROVISIONS
- information society service
- recipient of the service
- consumer
- to offer services in the Union
- substantial connection to the Union
- trader
- intermediary service
- mere conduit
- caching
- hosting
- illegal content
- online platform
- online search engine
- dissemination to the public
- distance contract
- online interface
- Digital Services Coordinator of establishment
- Digital Services Coordinator of destination
- active recipient of an online platform
- active recipient of an online search engine
- advertisement
- recommender system
- content moderation
- terms and conditions
- persons with disabilities
- commercial communication
- turnover
- Mere conduit
- Caching
- means 25
- information 22
- service 13
- recipient_of_the_service 8
- person 6
- including 6
- provided 6
- recipients 6
- online_platform 5
- request 5
- natural 5
- legal 5
- services 5
- intermediary_services 4
- purposes 4
- union 4
- irrespective 4
- which 4
- more 4
- online_interface 4
- provider 4
- in article 4
- intermediary_service 4
- communication 3
- member states 3
- whether 3
- such 3
- member state 3
- network 3
- defined 3
- particular 3
- acting 3
- transmission 3
- consisting 3
- making 3
- websites 2
- through 2
- query 2
- form 2
- name 2
- presented 2
- coordinator 2
- provision 2
- providers 2
- functionality 2
- minor 2
- automated 2
- online_platform’ 2
- used 2
- subject 2
Article 3
Definitions
For the purpose of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
(a) | ‘ information_society_service’ means a ‘service’ as defined in Article 1(1), point (b), of Directive (EU) 2015/1535; |
(b) | ‘ recipient_of_the_service’ means any natural or legal person who uses an intermediary_service, in particular for the purposes of seeking information or making it accessible; |
(c) | ‘ consumer’ means any natural person who is acting for purposes which are outside his or her trade, business, craft, or profession; |
(d) | ‘ to_offer_services_in_the_Union’ means enabling natural or legal persons in one or more Member States to use the services of a provider of intermediary_services that has a substantial_connection_to_the_Union; |
(e) | ‘ substantial_connection_to_the_Union’ means a connection of a provider of intermediary_services with the Union resulting either from its establishment in the Union or from specific factual criteria, such as:
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(f) | ‘ trader’ means any natural person, or any legal person irrespective of whether it is privately or publicly owned, who is acting, including through any person acting in his or her name or on his or her behalf, for purposes relating to his or her trade, business, craft or profession; |
(g) | ‘ intermediary_service’ means one of the following information_society_services:
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(h) | ‘ illegal_content’ means any information that, in itself or in relation to an activity, including the sale of products or the provision of services, is not in compliance with Union law or the law of any Member State which is in compliance with Union law, irrespective of the precise subject matter or nature of that law; |
(i) | ‘ online_platform’ means a hosting service that, at the request of a recipient_of_the_service, stores and disseminates information to the public, unless that activity is a minor and purely ancillary feature of another service or a minor functionality of the principal service and, for objective and technical reasons, cannot be used without that other service, and the integration of the feature or functionality into the other service is not a means to circumvent the applicability of this Regulation; |
(j) | ‘ online_search_engine’ means an intermediary_service that allows users to input queries in order to perform searches of, in principle, all websites, or all websites in a particular language, on the basis of a query on any subject in the form of a keyword, voice request, phrase or other input, and returns results in any format in which information related to the requested content can be found; |
(k) | ‘ dissemination_to_the_public’ means making information available, at the request of the recipient_of_the_service who provided the information, to a potentially unlimited number of third parties; |
(l) | ‘ distance_contract’ means ‘ distance_contract’ as defined in Article 2, point (7), of Directive 2011/83/EU; |
(m) | ‘ online_interface’ means any software, including a website or a part thereof, and applications, including mobile applications; |
(n) | ‘ Digital_Services_Coordinator_of_establishment’ means the Digital Services Coordinator of the Member State where the main establishment of a provider of an intermediary_service is located or its legal representative resides or is established; |
(o) | ‘ Digital_Services_Coordinator_of_destination’ means the Digital Services Coordinator of a Member State where the intermediary_service is provided; |
(p) | ‘active recipient of an online_platform’ means a recipient_of_the_service that has engaged with an online_platform by either requesting the online_platform to host information or being exposed to information hosted by the online_platform and disseminated through its online_interface; |
(q) | ‘active recipient of an online_search_engine’ means a recipient_of_the_service that has submitted a query to an online_search_engine and been exposed to information indexed and presented on its online_interface; |
(r) | ‘ advertisement’ means information designed to promote the message of a legal or natural person, irrespective of whether to achieve commercial or non-commercial purposes, and presented by an online_platform on its online_interface against remuneration specifically for promoting that information; |
(s) | ‘ recommender_system’ means a fully or partially automated system used by an online_platform to suggest in its online_interface specific information to recipients of the service or prioritise that information, including as a result of a search initiated by the recipient_of_the_service or otherwise determining the relative order or prominence of information displayed; |
(t) | ‘ content_moderation’ means the activities, whether automated or not, undertaken by providers of intermediary_services, that are aimed, in particular, at detecting, identifying and addressing illegal_content or information incompatible with their terms_and_conditions, provided by recipients of the service, including measures taken that affect the availability, visibility, and accessibility of that illegal_content or that information, such as demotion, demonetisation, disabling of access to, or removal thereof, or that affect the ability of the recipients of the service to provide that information, such as the termination or suspension of a recipient’s account; |
(u) | ‘ terms_and_conditions’ means all clauses, irrespective of their name or form, which govern the contractual relationship between the provider of intermediary_services and the recipients of the service; |
(v) | ‘ persons_with_disabilities’ means ‘ persons_with_disabilities’ as referred to in Article 3, point (1), of Directive (EU) 2019/882 of the European Parliament and of the Council (38); |
(w) | ‘ commercial_communication’ means ‘ commercial_communication’ as defined in Article 2, point (f), of Directive 2000/31/EC; |
(x) | ‘ turnover’ means the amount derived by an undertaking within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 139/2004 (39). |
CHAPTER II
LIABILITY OF PROVIDERS OF INTERMEDIARY SERVICES
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