Digital Services Act / Digital Markets Act: Document pool
The DSA-DMA package will affect how intermediaries regulate and influence user activity on their platforms, including people's ability to exercise their rights and freedoms online. It also aims at limiting the abuse of power by very large and gatekeeper platforms.
In her political guidelines, the President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen has committed to “upgrade the Union’s liability and safety rules for digital platforms, services and products, with a new Digital Services Act” (DSA). Later the Act was complemented to form a package with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). The DSA-DMA package will, among others, revise the rules contained in the E-Commerce Directive of 2000 that affect how intermediaries regulate and influence user activity on their platforms, including people’s ability to exercise their rights and freedoms online. This is why reforming those rules has the potential to be either a big threat to fundamental rights rights or a major improvement of the current situation online. It is also an opportunity for the European Union to decide how central aspects of the internet will look in the coming ten years.
A public consultation by the European Commission was launched in July 2020 and the legislative proposals were published on 15 December 2020.
In addition, three different Committees of the European Parliament have adopted their Own Initiative Reports in view of setting the agenda of what the DSA-DMA package should regulate and how it should achieve its goals.
In this document pool we will be listing relevant articles and documents related to the DSA and DMA. This will allow you to follow the developments of content moderation and regulatory actions in Europe.
Last update: 16 December 2020
Table of content
EDRi’s analysis and recommendations
Legislative documents
Blogposts and press releases
EDRi members’ publications
Other
Key policymakers
Key dates
EDRi’s analysis and recommendations
- EDRi Position Paper on the Digital Services Act: Platform Regulation Done Right (9 April 2020)
- Joint Report: Civil society calls for evidence-based solutions to disinformation (19 October 2018) with Access Now and Civil Liberties Union for Europe
- EDRi response to European Commission E-Commerce Directive Consultation (10 November 2010)
Legislative documents
European Commission
- Public consultation published in July 2020
- Legislative proposals published on 15 December 2020:
- /!\ NEW /!\ Proposal for a Regulation on a Single Market For Digital Services (Digital Services Act)
- /!\ NEW /!\ Proposal for a Regulation on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector (Digital Markets Act)
European Parliament
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee (IMCO)
- Lead Report: 2020/2018 (INL) Legislative initiative procedure – Digital Services Act: Improving the functioning of the Single Market – Draft
- Final report (20 October 2020)
- Legal Affairs Committee (JURI)
- Lead Report: 2020/2019 (INL) Legislative initiative procedure – Digital Services Act: Adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online – Draft
- Final report (20 October 2020)
- Civil Liberties Committee (LIBE)
- Lead Report: 2020/2022 (INI) Own-initiative report procedure – Digital Services Act and fundamental rights issues posed – Draft
- Final report (20 October 2020)
EDRi’s blogposts and press releases
- ‘A for effort’: European Commission DSA/DMA proposal falls short of the systemic change needed to rein in Big Tech power (15 December 2020)
- How the Parliament stakes out its DSA position (21 October 2020)
- Digital Services Act: what we learned about tackling the power of digital platforms (10 September 2020)
- The impact of competition law on your digital rights (19 February 2020)
- Online content moderation: Where does the Commission stand? (18 December 2019)
- Interoperability: A way to escape toxic online environments (04 December 2019)
- Content regulation – what’s the (online) harm? (9 October 2019)
- CJEU ruling on fighting defamation online could open the door for upload filters (4 October 2019)
- E-Commerce review: Safeguarding human rights when moderating online content (4 September 2019)
- E-Commerce review: Mitigating collateral damage (27 August 2019)
- E-Commerce review: Technology is the solution. What is the problem? (11 July 2019)
- E-Commerce review: Opening Pandora’s box? (20 June 2019)
- Fighting defamation online – AG Opinion forgets that context matters (19 June 2019)
- Answering guide for European Commission’s “illegal content consultation” (13 June 2018)
EDRi members’ publications
- EFF, EU vs Big Tech: Leaked Enforcement Plans and the Dutch-French Counterproposal (23 October 2020)
- ARTICLE 19, Response to the DSA consultation (16 October 2020)
- EFF, EU Parliament Paves the Way for an Ambitious Internet Bill (21 October 2020)
- Access Now, Position on the Digital Services Act Package. Position paper series (15 October 2020)
- Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), EFF Responds to EU Commission on the Digital Services Act: Put Users Back in Control (4 September 2020)
- ARTICLE 19, Recommendations for the Digital Services Act (September 2020)
- Access Now, Guide: how to protect human rights in content governance (3 March 2020)
- Access Now, Can we rely on machines making decisions for us on illegal content? (26 February 2020)
- Access Now, Who should decide what we see online? (20 February 2020)
- Homo Digitalis, Shedding light on the Facebook content moderation centre in Athens (4 December 2019)
- Epicenter.works, Platform Regulation – an attempt at a fundamental rights based proposal
- Panoptykon, “SIN vs Facebook”: First victory against privatised censorship (17 July 2019)
- Panoptykon, SIN v Facebook: Tech giant sued over censorship in landmark case (8 May 2019)
- Panoptykon, Who (really) targets you? (29 April 2020)
- Bits of Freedom, You cannot post “a bag of bones” on Facebook (27 February 2019)
- Bits of Freedom, Women on Waves: How internet companies police our speech (29 August 2018)
Other
- Bureau Européen des Unions de Consommateurs (BEUC), Making the Digital Services Act work for consumers (30 April 2020)
Key policymakers
- Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO)
- Rapporteur INL: Alex AGIUS SALIBA (S&D)
- Shadow Rapporteurs: Alexandra GEESE (Greens), Dita CHARANZOVÁ (Renew), Eugen JURZYCA (ECR), Martin SCHIRDEWAN (GUE), Pablo ARIAS ECHEVERRÍA (EPP)
- Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs (LIBE)
- Rapporteur INI: Kris PEETERS (EPP)
- Shadow Rapporteurs: Cornelia ERNST (GUE), Marina KALJURAND (S&D), Moritz KÖRNER (Renew), Patrick BREYER (Greens), Patryk JAKI (ECR)
- Legal Affairs (JURI)
- Rapporteur INL: Tiemo WÖLKEN (S&D)
- Shadow Rapporteurs: Angel DZHAMBAZKI (ECR), Emmanuel MAUREL (GUE), József SZÁJER (EPP), Karen MELCHIOR (Renew), Patrick BREYER (Greens)
Key dates
- European Commission’s consultation: June 2020
- European Commission’s legislative proposal: Q1 2021
