Digital Services Act: “Europe now • Table.Briefings

Alexander Rabe is Managing Director of eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V.

He criticizes rigid deadlines in the Digital Services Act, but welcomes the expansion of service providers to include platforms. In his guest article, Alexander Rabe, managing director of eco, takes a look at key points of the DSA and calls for: only the EU should set the rules.

With the Digital Services Act (DSA), the EU has created a successor to the E-Commerce Directive (EC-RL). The regulatory package is intended to complete the digital single market and define the future of the Internet in Europe. For 20 years, the EC-RL formed the legal foundation for online services. Considering the rapid development in the digital sector, this is already an impressively long time. The DSA offers the opportunity to adapt the horizontal legal framework to the technological leaps in development over the past 20 years.

Digital Services Act: “Europe now has the chance to ensure legal certainty”.

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