HOTREC proposals for the Digital Services and Market Acts - position papers

HOTREC welcomes the Digital Services Act (DSA) and DIgital Markets Act proposed by the European Commission in December 2020 and looks forward to contributing to the ongoing debate as the proposals are examined by European Parliament and the EU Member States.

HOTREC sees the Digital Services Act as an essential move to step up the fight against illegal offers of products and services online. HOTREC’s views are reflected with concrete proposals and justifications to improve the Digital Services Act in the following document:

HOTREC sees the Digital Markets Act as a key tool to address the current and emerging gatekeeper power of major online intermediaries (OTAs).HOTREC’s views are reflected with concrete proposals and justifications to improve the Digital Services Act in the following document:

We warmly encourage our Members to share these documents with the MEPs from their home market as well as relevant national ministries which will be shaping these proposals via the EU Council. HOTREC will be circulating these documents in particular to key MEPs involved in these procedures and to the permanent representations to the EU of the Member States. Our initial position paper on the Digital Services and Market Acts, which was drafted before the publication of these legislative proposals and addresses these pieces of future legislation in more general terms, is also .

These position papers have been finalised following the Distribution and STR Joint Working Group of 16 April and the circulation of a outlining our initial views and proposals for the Digital Services and Market Acts.