Digital Services Act (DSA)
Table of Contents
Chapter I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Chapter II – LIABILITY OF PROVIDERS OF INTERMEDIARY SERVICES
Chapter III – DUE DILIGENCE OBLIGATIONS FOR A TRANSPARENT AND SAFE ONLINE ENVIRONMENT
Chapter IV – IMPLEMENTATION, COOPERATION, PENALTIES AND ENFORCEMENT
Chapter V – FINAL PROVISIONS
Recitals (156)
Chapter I – GENERAL PROVISIONS
Article 2
Scope
1. This Regulation shall apply to intermediary services offered to recipients of the service that have their place of establishment or are located in the Union, irrespective of where the providers of those intermediary services have their place of establishment.
2. This Regulation shall not apply to any service that is not an intermediary service or to any requirements imposed in respect of such a service, irrespective of whether the service is provided through the use of an intermediary service.
3. This Regulation shall not affect the application of E-Commerce Directive.
4. This Regulation is without prejudice to the rules laid down by other Union legal acts regulating other aspects of the provision of intermediary services in the internal market or specifying and complementing this Regulation, in particular, the following:
(a) Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD);
(b) Union law on copyright and related rights;
(c) Terrorist Content Online Regulation (TERREG);
(d) Regulation (EU) 2019/1148;
(e) Platform-to-Business Regulation (P2B);
(f) Union law on consumer protection and product safety, including Consumer Protection Cooperation Regulation (CPC) and (EU) 2019/1020 and General Product Safety Directive and 2013/11/EU;
(g) Union law on the protection of personal data, in particular General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive (Electronic Communications);
(h) Union law in the field of judicial cooperation in civil matters, in particular Brussels I bis Regulation (Jurisdiction) or any Union legal act laying down the rules on law applicable to contractual and non-contractual obligations;
(i) Union law in the field of judicial cooperation in criminal matters, in particular a Regulation on European Production and Preservation Orders for electronic evidence in criminal matters;
(j) a Directive laying down harmonised rules on the appointment of legal representatives for the purpose of gathering evidence in criminal proceedings.