Identifying the context of the activity

Our specialised teams will help you in identifying the national and European rules applicable to the activity of your platform and ensuring that the transactions of your platform are compliant with this regulatory framework.

A constantly changing technological context

The regulation of the activity of digital platforms operating in France initially resulted from the 2016 Law for a Digital Republic, which adapted the national legal framework to a constantly evolving technological context. In this way, consumer law includes general rules governing the activity of digital platforms, defined as an on-line service, whether paid or not, based on the establishment of a relationship or on ranking or referencing, by means of computer algorithms, of content, goods or services offered or placed online by third parties.

Other texts have followed or are under discussion in France or at European level, in order to combat certain types of content communicated on digital platforms: law against the manipulation of information, draft law to reinforce respect for republican principles, European Commission's draft Digital Services Act.

Some platforms are more specifically regulated due to the nature of their activity (property rental platforms, VTC platforms, social networks, etc.).

Ensuring expert support

Our teams will help you to:

• master the transparency obligations specific to your platform: informing you about the methods for referencing and ranking offers or controlling published notices;
• identify the specific regulatory constraints on the activity of your platform;
• know and observe the obligations of your platform to combat the dissemination of illegal content and the manipulation of information;
• define the status of professionals offering services on your platform in terms of labour law;
• identify your platform's reporting obligations to professional suppliers for social and tax issues.