# Digital Services Act ## TL;DR > The **Digital Services Act** (Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, DSA) is a Regulation in EU law to update the Electronic Commerce Directive 2000 regarding illegal content, transparent advertising, and disinformation. It was submitted along with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) by the European Commission to the European Parliament and the Council on 15 December 2020. The DSA was prepared by the Executive Vice President of the [European Commission](European%20Commission.md) for A Europe Fit for the Digital Age Margrethe Vestager and by the European Commissioner for Internal Market [Breton, Thierry](Breton,%20Thierry.md), as members of the Von der Leyen Commission. On 22 April 2022, European policymakers reached an agreement on the Digital Services Act. The European Parliament approved the DSA along with the Digital Markets Act on 5 July 2022. On 4 October 2022, the European Council gave its final approval to the Regulation on a Digital Services Act. It was published in the Official Journal of the [[European Union]] on the 19th of October. Affected service providers will have until 1 January 2024 to comply with its provisions. Popular online platforms and search engines will need to comply with their obligations four months after they have been designated as such by the EU Commission. > [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital%20Services%20Act) %%Footer Starts Here%% See also: [[NetzDG]], [[Virginia Heffernan]] ----  ------ # Keep Digging %%Space%% ## Tags #GermanyFiles #NetzDG #Censorship ### Footnotes & References