Ref. Ares(2023)318637 - 16/01/2023
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
DIRECTORATE-GENERAL FOR COMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS, CONTENT AND
TECHNOLOGY
The Director-General
Brussels
CNECT.F.2.002/EJV
Their Excellencies
The Deputy Permanent Representatives of
the Member States to the European Union
Subject: Webinar for the National Regulatory and Competent Authorities on the
Digital Services Act
Your Excellency,
Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the European Council on
a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital
Services Act, or DSA) was published in the Official Journal on 27 October 2022 (1), and
it entered into force on 16 November 2022.
This Regulation sets out the horizontal regulatory framework for providers of online
intermediary services in the EU, with the aim of creating a safer and more trustworthy
online environment. To this end, the Digital Services Act imposes due diligence and
other obligations on providers of online intermediary services as regards illegal and
harmful content on their services, as well as additional obligations for designated
providers of very large online platforms and search engines.
To ensure that the new rules are implemented correctly and both companies and citizens
can fully profit from even more harmonised internal market, the Digital Services Act also
brings a robust institutional set-up. The Regulation creates powers and obligations for the
Member States and the Commission in terms of oversight, enforcement and cooperation,
which is a crucial element to ensure that each actor communicates with others, shares
important information and thus ensures a consistent application of the new framework.
With a view to supporting the Member States in a timely and uniform implementation of
this Regulation, the Commission is organising a webinar aimed at National Regulatory
and Competent Authorities, i.e. the national bodies that might already be or are likely to
be designated as Digital Services Coordinators and Competent Authorities with
competences according to the Digital Services Act. This online meeting is scheduled for
24 January 2023 in the afternoon (14:00 – 17:30) and its agenda will focus on the
requirements, powers and competencies of the Digital Services Coordinators and
(1) Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a
Single Market For Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC, OJ L 277, 27.10.2022.
Commission européenne/Europese Commissie, 1049 Bruxelles/Brussel, BELGIQUE/BELGIË - Tel. +32 22991111
Competent Authorities. Ministries responsible for the adaptation of the national rules to
the Digital Services Act framework are invited to join the meeting, too. I would invite
you to consider to invite the national authorities with powers according to the Consumer
Protection Cooperation Regulation (2), to ensure that the bodies engaged in Consumer
Protection Cooperation Network participate in this webinar as well. The Commission
will be represented on a Head of Unit or deputy Head of Unit level.
In this regard, I would kindly like to ask your Excellency to share information about this
online meeting with the responsible Ministry and with the respective National Regulatory
and Competent Authorities in your Member State, to ensure wide participation during the
meeting. A separate invitation for the meeting will be sent at a later stage together with a
detailed agenda and connection details.
The webinar will also ensure the participation of those European bodies and authorities
that expressed their interest in the Digital Services Act, such as the Body of European
Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), European Regulators Group for
Audiovisual Media Services (ERGA) and European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS).
I would like to invite you to send names and contact details of the representatives of your
Member State attending this meeting to
[email protected]
no later than 19 January 2023. For any further information, you may contact Eva
Jordan Vankova,
[email protected] and tel. +32 229 87349. Please
copy
[email protected].
We would like to thank you in advance for your Member State’s continuous support in
the process of the adoption of the DSA and welcome further efforts and commitment in
the implementation and enforcement stage.
Yours faithfully,
Roberto Viola
c.c.: Prabhat AWARGAL, Irene ROCHE LAGUNA, Eva JORDAN
VANKOVA, Athina TSITSOU
(2) Regulation (EU) 2017/2394 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 12 December 2017 on
cooperation between national authorities responsible for the enforcement of consumer protection laws and
repealing Regulation (EC) No 2006/2004 (Text with EEA relevance) OJ L 345, 27.12.2017
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