Full name: Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act).

Type: Regulation.

Objective and key elements:

• Uniform rules for a safe, predictable and trusted online environment, where fundamental rights enshrined in the Charter are effectively protected.
• Contribute to the proper functioning of the internal market for intermediary services.
• The obligations include (i.a):
  • Ban on nudging and dark patterns.
  • Know your customer.
  • Transparency in targeted advertising.
  • Transparency in ranking parameters.
  • Ban on targeting minors and using special categories of data.
• Requirements on online platforms:
  • obligations to "clean up",
  • must start sharing how algorithms and processes work, and
  • to put processes in place to remove illegal goods and content quickly, and crack down on users who spread misinformation.

Relevant to: Providers and users of online intermediary services (network infrastructure services, online marketplaces, hosting services cloud providers, social media platforms, search engines).

Status: In force.