EU regulatory register · DSA
Article 22Trusted flaggers
CELEX 32022R2065 · Read on 2026-08-18 · Chapter III
Official text
Read from the EU Publications Office for this CELEX number. The wording stands as published; nothing here is rewritten or summarised.
1. Providers of online platforms shall take the necessary technical and organisational measures to ensure that notices submitted by trusted flaggers, acting within their designated area of expertise, through the mechanisms referred to in Article 16, are given priority and are processed and decided upon without undue delay.
2. The status of ‘trusted flagger’ under this Regulation shall be awarded, upon application by any entity, by the Digital Services Coordinator of the Member State in which the applicant is established, to an applicant that has demonstrated that it meets all of the following conditions:
(a)
it has particular expertise and competence for the purposes of detecting, identifying and notifying illegal content;
(b)
it is independent from any provider of online platforms;
(c)
it carries out its activities for the purposes of submitting notices diligently, accurately and objectively.
3. Trusted flaggers shall publish, at least once a year easily comprehensible and detailed reports on notices submitted in accordance with Article 16 during the relevant period. The report shall list at least the number of notices categorised by:
(a)
the identity of the provider of hosting services,
(b)
the type of allegedly illegal content notified,
(c)
The article continues in the official text.
Other articles in this chapter
The text is quoted from the official source and is not legal advice. A national court reads the language version that binds in its jurisdiction.
Verifiable trust signals
- Six fixed blocks, one source per line
- No sentence written by a language model
- Engine version and read date on every answer
- No customer data, no documents, no advice
- Model card and audit published under the EU AI Act