Inês F. Neves writes for the Official Blog of the Legal Journal of the UNIO-EU

Inês F. Neves signs the paper entitled "From the Digital Services package to the Digital Markets Act: the road to a (more) secure, open, and fundamental rights-friendly digital space", published in the Official Blog of the Legal Journal of UNIO-EU.

“Aware of the shortcomings arising from the lack of changes to the European Union’s legal framework governing online platforms and digital services, practically since the adoption of the Directive on electronic commerce of 2000, the European Commission presented the Digital services Act package (Digital Services Act) in December 2020. It seeks to ensure and strengthen European digital sovereignty in terms that guarantee fundamental rights and the affirmation of the Union (also on the international stage) as a community of values and rights whose applicability should not depend on the online vs. offline divide. To this end, the options initially pursued, favouring non-interference, minimal regulation,or even the immunisation of intermediaries from any liability, soon proved insufficient to respond to the new digital challenges”.

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