Belgium

[BE] Adoption of final measures implementing Digital Services Act (DSA)

IRIS 2025-1:1/16

Olivier Hermanns

Conseil Supérieur de l’Audiovisuel Belge

Belgium has adopted the final measures required to implement Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act).

As previously announced (IRIS 2024-3:1/26), a legal instrument of federal cooperation, known as a “cooperation agreement”, needed to enter into force. However, this process was delayed on account of the federal and regional elections held on 9 June 2024.

All the parliamentary assemblies of the political entities that signed the cooperation agreement have now given their approval, which was required before it could enter into force.

Under the agreement, the Institut belge des services postaux et des télécommunications (Belgian postal and telecommunications authority – IBPT-BIPT) is the appointed digital services coordinator (DSC) for Belgium. The agreement sets out the collaboration arrangements between the DSC and the authorities responsible for audiovisual media, i.e. the Vlaamse Regulator voor de Media (Flemish media regulator – VRM) for the Flemish-speaking Community, the Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (Higher Audiovisual Council – CSA) for the French-speaking Community and the Medienrat (Media Council) for the German-speaking Community.

References

13 novembre 2024 – Décret [de la Communauté française] portant assentiment à l’accord de coopération du 3 mai 2024 entre l’Etat fédéral, la Communauté flamande, la Communauté française, la Communauté germanophone, relatif à l’exécution coordonnée du Règlement (UE) 2022/2065 du Parlement européen et du Conseil du 19 octobre 2022 relatif à un marché unique des services numériques et modifiant la directive 2000/31/CE (Règlement sur les services numériques), Moniteur belge du 29 novembre 2024, p. 130312
https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/decret/2024/11/13/2024010762/justel
13 November2024. - French-speaking Community decree approving the cooperation agreement of 3 May 2024 between the Federal State, the Flemish-speaking Community, the French-speaking Community and the German-speaking Community concerning the coordinated application of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for Digital Services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC (Digital Services Act), Moniteur belge of 29 November 2024, p. 130312
https://www.ejustice.just.fgov.be/eli/decret/2024/11/13/2024010762/justel

20. Dezember 2024. Gesetz zur Billigung des Zusammenarbeitsabkommens vom 3. Mai 2024 zwischen dem Föderalstaat, der Flämischen Gemeinschaft, der Französischen Gemeinschaft und der Deutschsprachigen Gemeinschaft zur koordinierten Umsetzung der Verordnung (EU) 2022/2065 des europäischen Parlaments und des Rates vom 19. Oktober 2022 über einen Binnenmarkt für digitale Dienste und zur Änderung der Richtlinie 2000/31/EG/ (Gesetz über digitale Dienste)
20 DECEMBER 2024. - Law approving the cooperation agreement of 3 May 2024 between the Federal State, the Flemish Community, the French Community and the German-speaking Community on the partial coordinated implementation of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a single market for digital services and amending Directive 2000/31/EC, Moniteur belge of 30 December 2024, p. 143703

IRIS 2024-3:1/26 [BE] Implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA)