Source: OJ L 277, 27/10/2022, p. 1–102Current language: EN
- Digital services act
Basic legislative acts
- DSA regulation
Article 55 Activity reports
Summary What does Article 55 of the DSA regulation say?
This article establishes the annual reporting obligations of Digital Services Coordinators.
It requires them to produce and publicly share yearly reports on their activities, and to submit these to both the Commission and the Board.
The article also addresses the consolidation of reporting in Member States where supervisory responsibilities are spread across multiple competent authorities, ensuring that a single, unified report is produced in such cases.
Important points:
- Digital Services Coordinators are required to publish annual activity reports in a machine-readable format and communicate them to the Commission and the Board.
- The reports must cover complaints received, orders to act against illegal content, orders to provide information, and the effects given to those orders.
- Where a Member State has designated multiple competent authorities under Article 49, the Digital Services Coordinator is responsible for producing one consolidated report covering all of them.
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Digital Services Coordinators shall draw up annual reports on their activities under this Regulation, including the number of complaints received pursuant to Article 53 and an overview of their follow-up. The Digital Services Coordinators shall make the annual reports available to the public in a machine-readable format, subject to the applicable rules on the confidentiality of information pursuant to Article 84, and shall communicate them to the Commission and to the Board.
The annual report shall also include the following information:
the number and subject matter of orders to act against illegal content and orders to provide information issued in accordance with Articles 9 and 10 by any national judicial or administrative authority of the Member State of the Digital Services Coordinator concerned;
the effects given to those orders, as communicated to the Digital Services Coordinator pursuant to Articles 9 and 10.
Where a Member State has designated several competent authorities pursuant to Article 49, it shall ensure that the Digital Services Coordinator draws up a single report covering the activities of all competent authorities and that the Digital Services Coordinator receives all relevant information and support needed to that effect from the other competent authorities concerned.
Relevant recitals
Recital 122 Annual activity reports by coordinators
The Digital Services Coordinator should regularly publish, for example on its website, a report on the activities carried out under this Regulation. In particular, the report should be published in a machine-readable format and include an overview of complaints received and of their follow-up, such as the overall number of complaints received and the number of complaints that led to the opening of a formal investigation or to the transmission to other Digital Services Coordinators, without referring to any personal data. Given that the Digital Services Coordinator is also made aware of orders to take action against illegal content or to provide information regulated by this Regulation through the information sharing system, the Digital Services Coordinator should include in its annual report the number and categories of such orders addressed to providers of intermediary services issued by judicial and administrative authorities in its Member State.
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Definition
recipient of the service
Definition
information society service
Definition
intermediary service
- a ‘mere conduit’ service, consisting of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, or the provision of access to a communication network;
- a ‘caching’ service, consisting of the transmission in a communication network of information provided by a recipient of the service, involving the automatic, intermediate and temporary storage of that information, performed for the sole purpose of making more efficient the information's onward transmission to other recipients upon their request;
- a ‘hosting’ service, consisting of the storage of information provided by, and at the request of, a recipient of the service;
Definition
illegal content