Digital Services Act: what it means for Technology & Digital

to lay down harmonised rules on the provision of digital services in the internal market (Digital Services Act). PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: information society services and especially intermediary services have become an important part of the EU’s economy and daily life of Union citizens. Twenty years after the adoption of the existing legal framework applicable to such services laid down in…

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Digital and software companies are squarely in scope of the EU's new tech rulebook — AI, platform regulation, cybersecurity and data. These are the EU acts that most often apply.

Digital Services Act sits in that rulebook because its subject matter covers digital services. Whether — and how — it applies to a given business depends on that business’s activities, products and markets.

• Council Regulation (EU) 2024/1732 of 17 June 202432024R1732
• Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence Act)32024R1689
• Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act)32022R1925
• Regulation (EU) 2024/2847 on horizontal cybersecurity requirements for products with digital elements (Cyber Resilience Act)32024R2847
• Regulation (EU) 2022/868 on European data governance (Data Governance Act)32022R0868
• Regulation (EU) 2023/2854 on harmonised rules on fair access to and use of data (Data Act)32023R2854

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The act’s summary is the European Parliament’s own procedure record; the sector connection is the act’s stated subject matter. Lex shows the law and the grounded connection — not legal advice. Data © European Union (Decision 2011/833/EU). Methodology.