On 19 November 2025, the General Court of the European Union (the General Court) delivered a significant judgment in Case T-367/23, dismissing Amazon EU Sàrl (Amazon)’s challenge to the European Commission (EC)’s decision to designate Amazon Store as a “very large online platform” (VLOP) under the Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (the Digital Services Act or DSA). This decision follows the decision in Case T-348/23 Zalando v Commission in September 2025 (the Zalando decision) (see our analysis of that decision here), and is the second decision in a number
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EDPB Publishes Draft Guidelines on GDPR-DSA Interplay
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On 12 September 2025, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) published its draft Guidelines on the interplay between the DSA and the GDPR (the Draft Guidelines). The Draft Guidelines aim to clarify how intermediary service providers (ISPs) should interpret and apply the GDPR when processing personal data in the context of DSA requirements. The Draft Guidelines are currently open to submissions as part of a public consultation until 31 October 2025.…
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EU’s Code of Conduct on Disinformation Integrated into DSA
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On February 13, the European Commission (EC) and the European Board for Digital Services (EBDS) endorsed the integration of the Code of Practice on Disinformation (the Disinformation Code) into the framework of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Article 45 of the DSA provides for the formation of voluntary codes of conduct at EU level to ”contribute to the proper application of” the DSA. The Disinformation Code is the second code integrated into the DSA via Article 45, following the EC’s recent integration of the Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate…
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On January 20, in a long-awaited move, the European Commission (EC) announced the integration of the revised Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online (the Hate Speech Code) into the regulatory framework of the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Article 45 of the DSA provides for the formation of voluntary codes of conduct at EU level to ”contribute to the proper application of” the DSA. The Hate Speech Code marks the first Code to be integrated into the DSA framework via the Article 45 process.
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The Hate Speech Code revises and…
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