The EU has positioned itself has a regulatory super-power in the field of technology. Under the propulsion of the Commission, the EU put forward and started to implement an agenda for the establishment of the Digital Single Market, shaping the regional and global regulation of digital technologies, and rising the global standards of protection of fundamental rights and competition in the digital marketplace. 

The summer of 2022 has seen the final stages of approval of the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA). These two regulations recast the rules on liability for illegal content applicable to all online intermediaries, including social networks and online marketplaces (hereinafter, “online platforms”), and put a series of new and demanding compliance requirements on them, with an emphasis on online platforms that detain a large share of the market. 

The proposed book focuses on these newly adopted EU regulations and provide a clearly written and slim user’s guide detailing the new liability rules and compliance obligations in a succinct way. 

The book carries out a critical analysis of the provisions of the DSA/DMA relevant to online platforms, focusing on their practical implementation. The book will also provide additional focus on the interplay between the DSA/DMA and the relevant existing EU instruments and framework, including previous decisions of the CJEU that may be relevant for its implementation. Given the recent adoption of the DSA/DMA, the book extensively draws from their legislative evolution and preparatory works, such as the impact assessments and public debates to set the new provisions into context and discuss practical issues.