The Online Platform Dispute Settlement Council begins its operation

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 09. 06. 10:53

The range of legal remedies against certain measures of online platforms that negatively affect users has been expanded following the transposition of the European Union’s digital services regulation. The president of the NMHH added that, from now on, anyone who disputes a decision of a platform can appeal not only to the authorities or the court, but also to the Online Platform Dispute Resolution Council (OPVT). András Koltay reminded him that the NMHH, as the designated Digital Service Coordinator, completed the board’s certification, so it can start operating.

The EU regulation on digital services (DSA), which entered into force in November 2022, comprehensively regulates the operation of online platforms in the member states of the European Union.

Among the most important goals of the DSA is the creation of a safer, more transparent and fairer online world, which also includes effective action against infringing content.

One of the achievements of the DSA is that it created a uniform, European-level system of rules that create enforceable obligations and foresee significant sanctions.

Regulation raised to the EU level is expected to reduce, among other things, the risk of platforms deleting comments and blocking user profiles by mistake or without justification.

The regulation enables member states to create out-of-court dispute resolution forums, with the help of which users of digital services can easily and effectively dispute certain decisions of service providers operating online platforms that negatively affect them, for example the removal of a published content or blocking of a profile, or the deletion of some dangerous content. absence. Such a body, authorized for out-of-court dispute resolution, will be the Online Platform Dispute Resolution Council in Hungary, which is provided for by the Hungarian law on certain rules of internet mediation services.