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 19 September 2026.

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