Useful links

Official European Union sources specific to the Digital Services Act that a practitioner is likely to need day to day, grouped by type and ordered by likely usefulness. All links were checked on 29 October 2026, except one on the Commission’s website, which could not be opened that day.

1. The legislation

• Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (Digital Services Act), Official Journal text eur-lex.europa.eu
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/2050 on the technical conditions and procedures for data sharing with vetted researchers (Article 40) eur-lex.europa.eu
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/436 on independent audits (Article 37) eur-lex.europa.eu
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2024/2835 on templates for transparency reports (Articles 15, 24 and 42) eur-lex.europa.eu
• Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/1201 on the conduct of Commission proceedings (Article 83) eur-lex.europa.eu
• Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 on the supervisory fee (Article 43) eur-lex.europa.eu

2. EU-level guidance

• Digital Services Act policy page (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Digital Services Act: questions and answers (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Guidelines under the Digital Services Act (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Guidelines on the protection of minors online (Article 28) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Guidelines for providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes (Article 35) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• The enforcement framework under the Digital Services Act (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

3. EU Codes of Conduct

• Codes of conduct under the Digital Services Act (Article 45) (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Code of Conduct on Disinformation digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Code of Conduct on Countering Illegal Hate Speech Online + digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

4. Notification and reporting platforms

• DSA Transparency Database (statements of reasons, Article 24(5)) transparency.dsa.ec.europa.eu
• DSA Data Access Portal (researcher access to data, Article 40) data-access.dsa.ec.europa.eu
• DSA whistleblower tool (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu

5. Regulators, authorities and bodies

• Digital Services Coordinators (Article 49) (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• European Board for Digital Services (Article 61) (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Designated very large online platforms and search engines (Article 33) and their supervision (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Trusted flaggers (Article 22) (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu
• Out-of-court dispute settlement bodies (Article 21) (European Commission) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu