The DSA (EU) 2022/2065 establishes obligations for digital services providers in the EU, with specific rules for online platforms, marketplaces, and very large online platforms (VLOPs).
Focus: Platform obligations, content moderation, transparency, VLOP requirements
Article 2 — Scope
Article 3 — Definitions
Article 12 — Mere Conduit
Article 16 — Notice and Action
Article 20 — Online Platforms
Article 24 — Transparency Reporting
Article 33 — VLOPs
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The Digital Services Act (EU Regulation 2022/2065) is the EU's comprehensive framework for regulating digital intermediary services, establishing clear accountability rules for online platforms operating in the European single market. Containing 93 articles, the DSA creates a tiered system of obligations based on the type and scale of digital service: intermediary services (mere conduit, caching, hosting), online platforms (including marketplaces, app stores, and social networks), and Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) and Very Large Online Search Engines (VLOSEs) with 45 million or more monthly active EU users. The DSA addresses illegal content, algorithmic transparency, online advertising practices, and platform accountability. It became applicable to VLOPs and VLOSEs from 25 August 2023 and to all other in-scope services from 17 February 2024. The regulation replaces key provisions of the e-Commerce Directive 2000/31/EC while preserving the foundational liability exemptions for intermediary services. Law4Devs provides all 93 DSA articles as structured JSON, queryable by service type and obligation category.
EU Regulation 2022/2065 applies to all providers of intermediary services offering services to recipients in the European Union, regardless of where the provider is established. This covers four cumulative tiers of obligations. The broadest tier includes all intermediary services: internet service providers (mere conduit), content delivery networks (caching), and hosting services including cloud infrastructure providers. Online platforms — services that store and disseminate information to the public at the request of users — face additional obligations, covering social networks, app stores, online marketplaces, travel and accommodation platforms, and content-sharing platforms. Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines, defined as those reaching 45 million or more monthly active users in the EU, face the most stringent requirements. The European Commission has designated 19 VLOPs and 2 VLOSEs as of 2024, including platforms operated by Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft, and others. Law4Devs lets you filter DSA articles by service tier and obligation type to identify exactly which provisions apply to your platform.
Under EU Regulation 2022/2065, Digital Services Act fines can reach up to 6% of the provider's total worldwide annual turnover of the preceding financial year. For periodic penalty payments — imposed to compel compliance with binding decisions — the maximum is 5% of average daily worldwide turnover per day of non-compliance. Very Large Online Platforms and VLOSEs face direct supervision by the European Commission, which can conduct inspections, request access to databases and algorithms, and impose fines independently. The Commission can also impose fines of up to 1% of annual turnover for providing incorrect, incomplete, or misleading information during investigations. Where a provider systematically fails to comply, the Commission or national authorities can seek interim measures or, as a last resort, temporary restriction of access to the service. Member State Digital Services Coordinators serve as the primary enforcement bodies for non-VLOP providers and must ensure penalties are effective, proportionate, and dissuasive. Law4Devs structures all DSA enforcement and penalty provisions as queryable JSON, helping platform engineering teams assess compliance risk by service tier.
Law4Devs provides all 93 articles of EU Regulation 2022/2065 as structured, machine-readable JSON via a REST API, sourced directly from EUR-Lex. Platform engineering and trust-and-safety teams can query DSA articles by service tier (intermediary, hosting, online platform, VLOP/VLOSE), obligation category (transparency reporting, content moderation, notice-and-action, algorithmic accountability, advertising transparency, data access for researchers), and actor role (provider, user, trusted flagger, Digital Services Coordinator). Each response includes the full legal text, article metadata, semantic tags, and cross-references to related provisions in the DMA, GDPR, AI Act, and e-Commerce Directive. The API tracks EUR-Lex amendments and Commission delegated acts automatically, ensuring integrations reflect the latest consolidated text. Responses average 34 milliseconds, suitable for embedding in trust-and-safety dashboards, content moderation workflows, and regulatory compliance pipelines. Official SDKs are available for Python, TypeScript, Java, Rust, PHP, and Dart on GitHub.