Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

General Scheme of the Digital Services Bill 2023: Discussion

Ms Sabha Greene:

I am sorry. I did not explain it properly because it is meant to be very clear. The difficulty is that the circumstances of any particular allegation or suspected breach will determine who goes in first. If it is a breach of the risk assessment obligations, the European Commission goes in first. If the platform does not have an internal complaints procedure, then the Irish regulator goes in first. If it finds there are systemic concerns, it will ramp it up to European Commission level. In the Digital Services Act, there is a very clear and mandatory breakdown of competences and who starts anything. It makes the point of how important it is that we designate our body because until we have legally designated one, all of that legal apparatus in the EU regulation does not come into play. If we are late, the European Commission will want to start cases and we may want to start cases but we will not be empowered yet. That is where-----

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