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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
- large 10
- very 10
- information 9
- referred 8
- in article 7
- reports 7
- provider 6
- shall 6
- online_platforms 5
- service 4
- pursuant 4
- each 4
- report 4
- official 3
- paragraph 3
- publicly 3
- recipients 3
- available 3
- from 3
- months 3
- audit 3
- obligations 3
- online_search_engines 3
- risk 3
- such 2
- transmit 2
- provided 2
- support 2
- well 2
- measures 2
- digital_services_coordinator_of_establishment 2
- compliance 2
- member states 2
- language 2
- mitigation 2
- commission 2
- applicable 2
- to article 2
- broken 2
- in articles 2
- down 2
- article 2
- latest 2
- published 2
- addition 2
- security 2
- providers 2
- providers 2
- least 2
- reasons 1
Article 42
Transparency reporting obligations
1. Providers of very large online_platforms or of very large online_search_engines shall publish the reports referred to in Article 15 at the latest by two months from the date of application referred to in Article 33(6), second subparagraph, and thereafter at least every six months.
2. The reports referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article published by providers of very large online_platforms shall, in addition to the information referred to in Article 15 and Article 24(1), specify:
(a) | the human resources that the provider of very large online_platforms dedicates to content_moderation in respect of the service offered in the Union, broken down by each applicable official language of the Member States, including for compliance with the obligations set out in Articles 16 and 22, as well as for compliance with the obligations set out in Article 20; |
(b) | the qualifications and linguistic expertise of the persons carrying out the activities referred to in point (a), as well as the training and support given to such staff; |
(c) | the indicators of accuracy and related information referred to in Article 15(1), point (e), broken down by each official language of the Member States. |
The reports shall be published in at least one of the official languages of the Member States.
3. In addition to the information referred to in Articles 24(2), the providers of very large online_platforms or of very large online_search_engines shall include in the reports referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article the information on the average monthly recipients of the service for each Member State.
4. Providers of very large online_platforms or of very large online_search_engines shall transmit to the Digital_Services_Coordinator_of_establishment and the Commission, without undue delay upon completion, and make publicly available at the latest three months after the receipt of each audit report pursuant to Article 37(4):
(a) | a report setting out the results of the risk assessment pursuant to Article 34; |
(b) | the specific mitigation measures put in place pursuant to Article 35(1); |
(c) | the audit report provided for in Article 37(4); |
(d) | the audit implementation report provided for in Article 37(6); |
(e) | where applicable, information about the consultations conducted by the provider in support of the risk assessments and design of the risk mitigation measures. |
5. Where a provider of very large online_platform or of very large online_search_engine considers that the publication of information pursuant to paragraph 4 might result in the disclosure of confidential information of that provider or of the recipients of the service, cause significant vulnerabilities for the security of its service, undermine public security or harm recipients, the provider may remove such information from the publicly available reports. In that case, the provider shall transmit the complete reports to the Digital_Services_Coordinator_of_establishment and the Commission, accompanied by a statement of the reasons for removing the information from the publicly available reports.
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