Review of the Digital Services Act

Priority question for written answer P-001672/2025 to the Commission Rule 144 Fernand Kartheiser (ECR), Piotr Müller (ECR), Gheorghe Piperea (ECR), Jacek Ozdoba (ECR), Laurence Trochu (ECR), Kristoffer Storm (ECR), Dominik Tarczyński (ECR), Hermann Tertsch (PfE), Geadis Geadi (ECR) Subject: Review of the Digital Services Act Article 91 of the Digital Services Act (DSA) provides for a review of the Act by November 2025 regarding the designation of very large online platforms, their scope, and the DSA’s compatibility with various legal instruments. The DSA has been heavily criticised by the current US administration, by European politicians and by human rights defenders who have reported and documented its impact on fundamental rights, particularly the right to freedom of expression. In this context, a well-rounded review process assessing the impact of the DSA on the right to freedom of expression enshrined in Article 11 of the EU Charter of Fundamental Rights is needed. Can the Commission answer the following questions: 1. What procedures and timeline will the Commission follow for the review of the DSA by November 2025, and does it already envisage changes to the Act? 2. Given the DSA’s stated aim of balancing platform accountability with fundamental rights (recital 3 and Article 1), will the Commission assess the DSA’s impact on freedom of expression during the review? 3. What role can Parliament, the Council of the EU, civil society, human rights groups, tech...