The European Fee is ready to launch an investigation into Chinese language on-line retail platform Temu over considerations that it’s failing to curb the sale of unlawful merchandise.
Upcoming actions of the European Fee
In line with sources, the European Fee will provoke formal proceedings towards the platform, which belongs to the Chinese language agency PDD Holdings, to find out whether or not it violates guidelines towards unlawful actions on the Web. The investigation could possibly be introduced within the close to future.
Underneath the European Digital Providers Act (DSA), firms with greater than 45 million customers are designated as Very Massive Web Platforms (VLOPs) and should do extra to fight unlawful content material and counterfeit merchandise on their platforms. The European Fee designated Tema as a VLOP in Could.
On October 11, the Fee requested data from Temu based mostly on the DSA. She wished to know what steps she was taking to prevent the sale of illegal products on her platform . Temu ought to have supplied data by October 21. The European Fee stated on the time that it might decide the subsequent steps solely after assessing the solutions from Temu. In line with sources, the data it has supplied to Temu to date has been unsatisfactory and has not allayed the EU’s considerations. Following a proper EU investigation, Temu has the fitting to suggest countermeasures to handle the fee’s considerations and keep away from attainable sanctions.
Opinion of Temu
The Temu firm commented on the entire matter. “Temu takes its obligations underneath the DSA significantly and is continually investing in strengthening our compliance system and defending the pursuits of shoppers on our platform. We are going to totally cooperate with regulators to assist our shared purpose of a protected and trusted market for shoppers,” an organization spokesperson stated.
“In a separate improvement, we will verify that we’re in discussions to affix the Memorandum of Understanding on the Sale of Counterfeit Items on the Web, a voluntary settlement supported by the European Fee. Counterfeiting is an industry-wide problem and we imagine that joint efforts are important to advance our shared targets of defending shoppers and rights holders,” added Temu’s spokesperson.