Digital Services Act — Regulation (EU) 2022/2065

Identifier

CELEX

32022R2065

Identifier

EU 2022/2065

Adopted

2022-10-19

In force

2022-11-16

Applies from

2024-02-17

Articles

93

Chapters

• I General provisions1–2
• II Liability of providers of intermediary services4–10
• III Due diligence obligations for a transparent and safe online environment11–48
• IV Implementation, cooperation, penalties and enforcement49–88
• V Final provisions89–93

Articles

93 articles are read into the register, one address each. Read on 2026-08-18.

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Judgments of the Court of Justice

30 decisions

• C-492/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-12-02

  X v Russmedia Digital SRL and Inform Media Press SRL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Responsibility of the operator of an online marketplace for the publication of personal data contained in advertisements placed on its online marketplace by user advertisers – Article 5(2) – Principle of accountability – Article 26 – Joint control with user advertisers – Article 9(1) and (2)(a) – Advertisements containing sensitive data – Lawfulness of processing – Consent – Articles 24, 25 and 32 – Obligations of the controller – Prior identification of the advertisements containing such data – Prior identification of the identity of the user advertiser – Refusal of publication of unlawful advertisements – Security measures such as to prevent the copying of advertisements and their publication on other websites – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Articles 12 to 15 – Possibility for such an operator, with regard to an infringement of those obligations, to rely on the exemption from liability of an intermediary information society service provider.

• C-115/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-09-11

  UJ v Österreichische Zahnärztekammer

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public health – Cross-border healthcare – Directive 2011/24/EU – Article 3(d) and (e) – Provision of healthcare through telemedicine – Concept of ‘telemedicine’ – Cross-border healthcare provided through telemedicine – Complex medical treatment that includes healthcare provided in person and through telemedicine – Member State of treatment – Directive 2000/31/EC – Information society service – Directive 2005/36/EC – Professional qualifications – Freedom to provide services – Scope – Article 56 TFEU.

• C-100/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-05-15

  Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. v bonprix Handelsgesellschaft mbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Commercial communications – Article 6(c) – Concept of ‘promotional offers’ – Online advertising setting out a specific payment arrangement – Purchase on invoice involving a deferral of payment of the sales price – Information on the need for a prior assessment of the consumer’s creditworthiness only during the online ordering process.

• C-517/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  Apothekerkammer Nordrhein v DocMorris NV

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 86(1) – Concept of ‘advertising of medicinal products’ – Article 87(3) – Advertising of prescription-only medicinal products – Advertising of a pharmacy’s entire range of medicinal products – Vouchers corresponding to a certain sum of money or a percentage reduction for the subsequent purchase of other products – Price reductions and payments with immediate effect – Free movement of goods – Article 34 TFEU – Freedom to provide services – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Article 3(2) and (4)(a) – Restriction – Justification – Consumer protection.

• C-88/23Court of Justice of the European Union2024-09-19

  Parfümerie Akzente GmbH v KTF Organisation AB

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Information society services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Article 2(h) – Online promotion and sale of cosmetic products – Exclusion from the coordinated field of labelling obligations applicable to products promoted and sold by an information society service provider – Directive 75/324/EEC – Article 8(2) – Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 – Article 19(5) – Option for the Member State of destination to enforce use of a language of its choice.

• 62022CJ0662Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Airbnb Ireland UC and Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-662/22 and C-667/22.

• 62022CJ0664Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Google Ireland Ltd and Eg Vacation Rentals Ireland Ltd v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-664/22 and C-666/22.

• C-665/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom to provide services – Providers of information society services – Obligation to provide information on the economic situation of a provider of online intermediation services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Principle of control in the home Member State – Exemptions – Concept of measures ‘taken against a given information society service’ – Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 – Objective.

• C-376/22Court of Justice of the European Union2023-11-09

  Google Ireland Limited and Others v Kommunikationsbehörde Austria (Komm Austria)

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Directive 2000/31/EC – Information society services – Article 3(1) – Principle of control in the home Member State – Article 3(4) – Derogation from the principle of free movement of information society services – Concept of ‘measures taken against a given information society service’ – Article 3(5) – Possibility of a posteriori notification of measures restricting the free movement of information society services in urgent cases – Failure to provide notification – Enforceability of those measures – Legislation of a Member State imposing on providers of communication platforms, whether established on its territory or not, a set of obligations relating to the monitoring and notification of allegedly unlawful content – Directive 2010/13/EU – Audiovisual media services – Video-sharing platform service.

• 62018CJ0682Court of Justice of the European Union2021-06-22

  Frank Peterson v Google LLC and Others and Elsevier Inc.v Cyando AG

  Joined Cases C-682/18 and C-683/18.

• C-62/19Court of Justice of the European Union2020-12-03

  Star Taxi App SRL v Unitatea Administrativ Teritorială Municipiul Bucureşti prin Primar General and Consiliul General al Municipiului Bucureşti

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Article 56 TFEU – Applicability – Purely internal situation – Directive 2000/31/EC – Article 2(a) – Meaning of ‘Information Society services’ – Article 3(2) and (4) – Article 4 – Applicability – Directive 2006/123/EC – Services – Chapters III (Freedom of establishment for providers) and IV (Free movement of services) – Applicability – Articles 9 and 10 – Directive (EU) 2015/1535 – Article 1(1)(e) and (f) – Meaning of ‘rule on services’ – Meaning of ‘technical regulation’ – Article 5(1) – Failure to communicate in advance – Enforceability – Activity of connecting persons wishing to make urban journeys with authorised taxi drivers, by means of a smartphone application – Classification – National regulations subjecting that activity to prior authorisation.

• 62018CJ0511Court of Justice of the European Union2020-10-06

  La Quadrature du Net and Others v Premier ministre and Others

  Joined Cases C-511/18, C-512/18 and C-520/18.

Binding case law

30 judgments the Court itself has marked as interpreting this act.

• C-492/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-12-02

  X v Russmedia Digital SRL and Inform Media Press SRL

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Protection of personal data – Regulation (EU) 2016/679 – Article 4(7) – Concept of ‘controller’ – Responsibility of the operator of an online marketplace for the publication of personal data contained in advertisements placed on its online marketplace by user advertisers – Article 5(2) – Principle of accountability – Article 26 – Joint control with user advertisers – Article 9(1) and (2)(a) – Advertisements containing sensitive data – Lawfulness of processing – Consent – Articles 24, 25 and 32 – Obligations of the controller – Prior identification of the advertisements containing such data – Prior identification of the identity of the user advertiser – Refusal of publication of unlawful advertisements – Security measures such as to prevent the copying of advertisements and their publication on other websites – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Articles 12 to 15 – Possibility for such an operator, with regard to an infringement of those obligations, to rely on the exemption from liability of an intermediary information society service provider.

  ECLI:EU:C:2025:935EUR-LexThe Court
• C-115/24d75709a6-03c8-11eb-a511-01aa75ed71a12025-09-11

  UJ v Österreichische Zahnärztekammer

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Public health – Cross-border healthcare – Directive 2011/24/EU – Article 3(d) and (e) – Provision of healthcare through telemedicine – Concept of ‘telemedicine’ – Cross-border healthcare provided through telemedicine – Complex medical treatment that includes healthcare provided in person and through telemedicine – Member State of treatment – Directive 2000/31/EC – Information society service – Directive 2005/36/EC – Professional qualifications – Freedom to provide services – Scope – Article 56 TFEU.

  ECLI:EU:C:2025:694EUR-LexThe Court
• C-100/24Court of Justice of the European Union2025-05-15

  Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg e.V. v bonprix Handelsgesellschaft mbH

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Commercial communications – Article 6(c) – Concept of ‘promotional offers’ – Online advertising setting out a specific payment arrangement – Purchase on invoice involving a deferral of payment of the sales price – Information on the need for a prior assessment of the consumer’s creditworthiness only during the online ordering process.

  ECLI:EU:C:2025:352EUR-LexThe Court
• C-517/23Court of Justice of the European Union2025-02-27

  Apothekerkammer Nordrhein v DocMorris NV

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Medicinal products for human use – Directive 2001/83/EC – Article 86(1) – Concept of ‘advertising of medicinal products’ – Article 87(3) – Advertising of prescription-only medicinal products – Advertising of a pharmacy’s entire range of medicinal products – Vouchers corresponding to a certain sum of money or a percentage reduction for the subsequent purchase of other products – Price reductions and payments with immediate effect – Free movement of goods – Article 34 TFEU – Freedom to provide services – Electronic commerce – Directive 2000/31/EC – Article 3(2) and (4)(a) – Restriction – Justification – Consumer protection.

  ECLI:EU:C:2025:122EUR-LexThe Court
• C-88/233ca6f0a7-954d-4b0b-8898-78c385afdf902024-09-19

  Parfümerie Akzente GmbH v KTF Organisation AB

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Electronic commerce – Information society services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Article 2(h) – Online promotion and sale of cosmetic products – Exclusion from the coordinated field of labelling obligations applicable to products promoted and sold by an information society service provider – Directive 75/324/EEC – Article 8(2) – Regulation (EC) No 1223/2009 – Article 19(5) – Option for the Member State of destination to enforce use of a language of its choice.

  ECLI:EU:C:2024:765EUR-LexThe Court
• C-665/22Court of Justice of the European Union2024-05-30

  Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Reference for a preliminary ruling – Freedom to provide services – Providers of information society services – Obligation to provide information on the economic situation of a provider of online intermediation services – Directive 2000/31/EC – Coordinated field – Principle of control in the home Member State – Exemptions – Concept of measures ‘taken against a given information society service’ – Regulation (EU) 2019/1150 – Objective.

  ECLI:EU:C:2024:435EUR-LexThe Court
• 62022CJ06623ca6f0a7-954d-4b0b-8898-78c385afdf902024-05-30

  Airbnb Ireland UC and Amazon Services Europe Sàrl v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-662/22 and C-667/22.

  ECLI:EU:C:2024:432EUR-LexThe Court
• 62022CJ06643ca6f0a7-954d-4b0b-8898-78c385afdf902024-05-30

  Google Ireland Ltd and Eg Vacation Rentals Ireland Ltd v Autorità per le Garanzie nelle Comunicazioni

  Joined Cases C-664/22 and C-666/22.

  ECLI:EU:C:2024:434EUR-LexThe Court

Read from the Publications Office of the European Union on 2026-08-22.

Supervisory bodies

• EDPB — European Data Protection Board

Official source

• EUR-Lex, CELEX 32022R2065
• All language versions
• National instruments, EUR-Lex NIM

National instruments

• SE Lag med kompletterande bestämmelser till EU:s förordning om digitala tjänster

  SFS 2024:954 · www.riksdagen.se

• DK Lov om håndhævelse af forordningen om et indre marked for digitale tjenester

  LOV nr 1765 af 28/12/2023 · www.retsinformation.dk

• FI Laki digitaalisten palvelujen tarjoamisesta annetun lain muuttamisesta

  606/2024 · www.finlex.fi

• DE Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz

  DDG · www.gesetze-im-internet.de

• NO Lovdata

  Not stated in the register · lovdata.no

• UK legislation.gov.uk

  Not stated in the register · www.legislation.gov.uk