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Zalando challenges European Commission’s DSA supervisory fee calculations and VLOP designation metrics in new EU General Court action (Case T‑203/24)

Published on: 19 April 2024

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The German e-commerce company was labelled a VLOP a year back, together with platforms such as Facebook, YouTube and TikTok. Roughly 20 services have to date been identified as VLOPs, placing them under the toughest obligations. It further means they fall under direct commission enforcement, and they are required to pay a levy that funds the commission’s policing of the rules. The bar for being named a VLOP is at least 45 million average monthly users. The commission stated last year that Zalando counts 83 million, a figure the company is challenging at the EU’s lower-tier General Court, arguing it wrongly captures visitors to its retail operation. Zalando has since submitted a new legal action at the General Court. The latest filing, entered on 15 April 2024, relates to the method by which the commission has computed Zalando’s supervisory fee and the calculation is now the focus of its challenge...

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