Digital Services Act: adapting commercial and civil law rules for commercial entities operating online
This legislative-initiative report on a Digital Services Act addresses commercial and civil law rules for entities operating online. Amendments reference the e-commerce Directive, GDPR, consumer protection cooperation and the COVID-19 outbreak, and propose notice-and-action procedures, transparency reports, professional diligence and liability for platforms, designating EU legal representatives for third-country advertisers and intermediaries, sanctions for false or misleading advertisements, and limits on mandatory automated content filtering.
Procedure timeline
- Committee amendments tabled29 Apr 2020 – 5 Jun 2020
- Plenary vote — Passed20 Oct 2020 · On the resolution (the text as a whole)
- Procedure completed
Plenary votes
10 roll-call votesIn plenary, Parliament usually votes in steps: first on amendments to the text (sometimes split into parts, so Members can accept one half of a sentence and reject the other), then on the text as a whole. The “main vote” is the one that adopts or rejects the text itself. Each vote below shows exactly which step it was. How voting works →
Show the 7 earlier votes
- 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 2Official label: Am 2 · what was voted ↗148 for532 against15 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 3Official label: Am 3 · what was voted ↗101 for579 against15 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 4Official label: Am 4 · what was voted ↗153 for527 against15 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Failedoutcome from totalsOn amendment 1Official label: Am 1 · what was voted ↗106 for550 against39 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 8 (part 1 of a split vote)Official label: § 8/1 · what was voted ↗617 for41 against37 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 8 (part 2 of a split vote)Official label: § 8/2 · what was voted ↗630 for24 against41 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 8 (part 3 of a split vote)Official label: § 8/3 · what was voted ↗547 for133 against15 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 17 (part 1 of a split vote)Official label: § 17/1 · what was voted ↗671 for7 against17 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Passedoutcome from totalsOn paragraph 17 (part 2 of a split vote)Official label: § 17/2 · what was voted ↗341 for303 against51 abstentions8 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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- 20 Oct 2020Main votePassedoutcome from totalsOn the resolution (the text as a whole)Official label: Résolution · what was voted ↗637 for26 against28 abstentions12 did not voteForAgainstAbst.
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Vote data: HowTheyVote.eu (ODbL, attribution) / European Parliament · roll-call votes only
Official amendment documents
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Explore the graphMembers who amended this procedure
76 Members · by amendment count
The amendments, in full text
615 amendmentsEvery amendment as tabled — original text, proposed change and justification, with a link to the official PDF.