The Digital Services Act Package, as part of the European Digital Strategy, intends to modernise the legal framework for digital services. In particular, the Digital Services Act will update the rules on platform liability.

Earlier this year, ELI has published its Model Rules on Online Platforms. This publication aims to contribute to the current debate on platform regulation and could serve as a source of inspiration for a balanced approach to platform regulation. 

Against this background, ELI speakers and Reporters of the project, Christoph Busch (University of Osnabrück and Yale Information Society Project), Gerhard Dannemann (Humboldt University of Berlin and Oxford), Hans Schulte-Nölke (University of Osnabrück and Nijmegen), Aneta Wiewiorowska-Domagalska (University of Osnabrück), and Fryderyk Zoll (University of Osnabrück and Krakow) as well as guest speakers Stefan Naumann (Head of Commercial Law at Zalando SE) and Ursula Pachl (Deputy Director General at the European Consumer Organisation) provided a first assessment of the Digital Services Act Package and illustrated how the Digital Services Act could benefit from the work of ELI.