The Digital Services Act and the Digital Markets Act: Regulating Platforms in Europe

The Digital Services Act (DSA) and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) represent the European Union's most ambitious attempt to recast the rules of the digital economy since the E-Commerce Directive of 2000. These instruments overhaul the duties of online intermediaries and rewrite the rules of competition in digital markets, with far-reaching implications for the relationship between platforms, users, and public authorities across the Union.

This book offers a concise and practical user's guide to both regulations, covering the core substantive areas of the DSA and DMA: platform liability, due diligence obligations, content moderation, online advertising, and recommender systems. It also examines the enforcement powers of the European Commission and of national Digital Services Coordinators. The book situates the DSA and DMA within the broader EU legal order, examining their interplay with the GDPR, the AI Act, the EU consumer acquis and other relevant instruments and decisions of the Court of Justice of the EU, offering a useful resource for understanding platform regulation in Europe.

The book is aimed at scholars, practitioners and policymakers in digital law, European law and international law.