Broadcasting Act 2009

201

F349[Complaints to Commission concerning Digital Services Regulation.

201. (1) A person (in this section referred to as a complainant) may make a complaint to the Commission, in the manner and form specified by the Commission, that there has been a failure by an intermediary service provider to comply with a provision of the Digital Services Regulation.

(2) The Commission shall carry out an initial assessment of the complaint made under subsection (1) and, having done so, may transmit the complaint to

(a) the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission where the complaint concerns Article 30, 31 or 32,

(b) the Digital Services Coordinator of establishment, where considered appropriate, accompanied by an opinion, or

(c) the European Commission where the complaint concerns Articles 33 to 42.

(3) The Commission shall notify the complainant where the complaint has been transmitted under subsection (2).

(4) The Commission shall, where it does not transmit the complaint under subsection (2), carry out a further assessment of the complaint and may take any of the following actions:

(a) serve an intermediary service provider a compliance notice under section 139ZZGA;

(b) investigate the complaint in accordance with section 139ZI(1);

(c) dismiss the complaint where the Commission finds

(i) the complaint is frivolous or vexatious or was not made in good faith, or

(ii) the subject matter of the complaint is trivial;

(d) take such other action in respect of the complaint as the Commission considers appropriate.

(5) The Commission shall notify the complainant and the intermediary service provider to which the complaint relates of the complaint made under this section and of any action proposed by the Commission under subsection (4).

(6) A notification under subsection (5) shall

(a) include particulars of the complaint,

(b) state that the intermediary service provider to which the complaint relates may make representations under subsection (7), and

(c) specify the date by which any representations shall be made under subsection (7).

(7) An intermediary service provider the subject of a complaint made under subsection (1) and notified under subsection (6) may, within the time specified by the Commission in such notification, make representations to the Commission about such complaint.

(8) The Commission shall have regard to any representations made to it under subsection (7) in deciding whether to proceed with any proposed action under subsection (4).

(9) The Commission shall notify the complainant and the intermediary service provider the subject of the complaint made under subsection (1) in writing of its decision under subsection (4).]

Annotations

Amendments:

F349

Inserted (17.02.2024) by Digital Services Act 2024 (2/2024), s. 41, S.I. No. 53 of 2024.