The Chinese online retailer is the second company to receive a fine under the DSA, after Elon Musk’s X was fined at the end of last year.
The European Commission has issued a fine of €200m to Temu for breaching the Digital Services Act (DSA).
The Commission hit Temu with the fine for failing to “diligently identify, analyse and assess the systemic risks of illegal products being offered on its platform and the resulting harm to consumers in the European Union”, according to a statement released today (28 May).
“The fine issued today was calculated taking into account the nature of the infringement, its gravity in terms of affected EU users, and its duration,” read the Commission’s press release. “Failing to conduct proper risk assessments – one of the cornerstones of the DSA’s architecture – is a particularly serious infringement of the DSA.”
The EU first opened an investigation into Temu – which was previously designated as a very large online platform under the DSA – in October 2024, following an analysis of the company’s response to the Commission’s request for information regarding how it tackles the presence of traders selling illegal products in its online marketplace.
