Article 52 — Penalties

Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065

What does DSA Article 52 say?

Short answer, straight from the official text

1. Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation by providers of intermediary services within their competence and shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that they are implemented in accordance with Article 51. 2.

Source: Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, read 2026-08-14.

Official text

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1. Member States shall lay down the rules on penalties applicable to infringements of this Regulation by providers of intermediary services within their competence and shall take all the necessary measures to ensure that they are implemented in accordance with Article 51.

2. Penalties shall be effective, proportionate and dissuasive. Member States shall notify the Commission of those rules and of those measures and shall notify it, without delay, of any subsequent amendments affecting them.

3. Member States shall ensure that the maximum amount of fines that may be imposed for a failure to comply with an obligation laid down in this Regulation shall be 6 % of the annual worldwide turnover of the provider of intermediary services concerned in the preceding financial year. Member States shall ensure that the maximum amount of the fine that may be imposed for the supply of incorrect, incomplete or misleading information, failure to reply or rectify incorrect, incomplete or misleading information and failure to submit to an inspection shall be 1 % of the annual income or worldwide turnover of the provider of intermediary services or person concerned in the preceding financial year.

4. Member States shall ensure that the maximum amount of a periodic penalty payment shall be 5 % of the average daily worldwide turnover or income of the provider of intermediary services concerned in the preceding financial year per day, calculated from the date specified in the decision concerned.

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The same rule in other acts

These articles carry the same official heading. The wording is not identical; read each text at its own source.

• GDPR Article 84 — Penalties
• AI Act Article 99 — Penalties
• NIS2 Article 36 — Penalties
• PSD2 Article 103 — Penalties

Who does this apply to

The register names five roles. Open a role to see the duties this act places on it, each row with its article and its source.

• Online marketplace
• Cloud service provider

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