The European Commission launches a formal investigation into AliExpress to assess whether it violated the Digital Services Act

The European Commission announced today evening, Beijing time, that it has launched formal procedures to evaluate AliExpress, a subsidiary of Alibaba, to determine whether it has violated the Digital Services Act (DSA). This decision has attracted widespread attention and will further affect the development and regulation of the digital services industry.

• Manage and mitigate risk

• Content moderation and internal complaints handling mechanism

• Advertising and recommendations Transparency of the system

• Traceability of traders, reliability and integrity of information

• Data access for researchers

Based on the preliminary investigation conducted to date, including analysis of the risk assessment report sent by AliExpress in August 2023, the information published in its transparency report and its formal request for information from the Commission. Reply, The Commission decided to initiate a formal investigation against AliExpress under the Digital Services Act.

This site learned from the announcement that according to the "Digital Services Act", Alibaba AliExpress was designated as a " "Super large online platform", previously announced that its monthly active users in the EU have reached 104.3 million . As such a platform, AliExpress must begin to fulfill a series of obligations stipulated in the Digital Services Act four months after being designated.

According to Alibaba’s fiscal 2024 third quarter financial report released last month, Alibaba International Digital Business Group’s revenue increased by 44% year-on-year, while AliExpress’s order volume increased by more than 60% year-on-year.

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