Amazon to call on EU judges for online platform rules exemption

Published on 11/06/2025 - 14:44 GMT+2

Amazon will connected Thursday effort to person EU judges that it should not person to comply pinch nan strictest requirements nether nan bloc’s online level rules – nan Digital Services Act (DSA) – because it does not airs nan systemic risks that nan rules intend to combat.

The DSA entered into unit successful 2023 and obliges platforms to forestall forbidden activities online arsenic good arsenic to antagonistic nan dispersed of disinformation.

Amazon is 1 of nan 25 Very Large Online Platforms (VLOPs) that were designed by nan European Commission because they person much than 45 cardinal users per month. To them, nan strictest rules apply.

Amazon challenged that determination earlier nan tribunal and argues that its marketplace activities do not autumn successful nan scope of nan rules.

A spokesperson told Euronews up of nan proceeding successful nan EU's highest tribunal successful Luxembourg connected Thursday that nan DSA was designed to reside systemic risks brought by those companies "with advertizing arsenic their superior gross and that administer reside and information".

The Amazon Store, arsenic an online marketplace, "does not airs immoderate specified systemic risks; it only sells goods, and it doesn’t disseminate aliases amplify information, views aliases opinions," nan spokesperson added.

The tribunal past twelvemonth already dismissed interim measures requested by Amazon successful a bid to debar afloat implementation until nan situation had been decided. 

The Big Tech institution said that making their advertizing public, arsenic nan DSA requires, would springiness distant waste and acquisition secrets to their competitors.

However, nan ruling said that EU interests prevail complete Amazon’s worldly interests and stressed nan value of nan timely implementation of nan law.

Consumer concerns

The Amazon spokesperson said that contempt it contesting nan VLOP designation, nan institution is “committed to protecting customers from forbidden products and content".

Consumer group BEUC, which will intervene successful nan tribunal proceeding connected nan broadside of nan Commission, said successful a connection that forbidden products person “regularly” been recovered connected waste connected online marketplaces, including Amazon. 

Agustín Reyna, BEUC's head general, said that “it is important that nan DSA applies successful afloat to Amazon and consumers are protected from immoderate forbidden practices erstwhile and for all".

The Commission has opened respective probes into breaches of nan DSA, including into TikTok, X, Facebook, Instagram and AliExpress since nan rules came into force. None of nan probes, including nan 1 against Temu on suspicion of nan waste of forbidden products, person been wrapped up.

User numbers

Besides Amazon, German manner website Zalando besides challenged nan Commission nickname arsenic a VLOP.

Zalando said successful a tribunal proceeding successful March that nan measurement nan EU executive calculates nan personification numbers to designate VLOPs tin beryllium different from institution to company.

It besides claims that its “hybrid business model” pinch a unit business and a partner business does not autumn wrong nan scope of nan DSA.

If nan tribunal sides pinch Zalando, this could mean a breakthrough for different platforms pinch akin business models, arsenic good arsenic those that besides appealed their nickname including Amazon, and porn websites Pornhub and Xvideos. 

Rulings successful some nan Amazon and Zalando lawsuit are expected astatine a later time.