President Karol Nawrocki vetoed the law for the national implementation of the Digital Services Act (DSA). With this, the right-wing conservative head of state demonstratively sides with US President Donald Trump and his declared rejection of European platform regulation.
They vetoed it’s implementation in Poland. Not for the entire EU. It’s not an issue with the EU mechanisms for once.
The DSA is already european law, and as a regulation is directly applicable in every member state. In Poland too. Nawrocki can cry and bitch all he wants about that. What he blocked is the local implementation which includes e.g. appointing regulatory bodies. In effect as far as I understand it, polish citizens sadly have nobody to turn to when this law is violated, but companies in Poland are still bound by it towards complaints from other member states.
I’m gonna complain so much to Polish companies!
Can you recommend some? The only ones I had business with were pretty decent, I don’t want to complain to them.
If I remember correctly they have a time limit within which they are forced to adhere to the EU law anyway by virtue of EU treaties, right? So it’s a temporary situation and he just used it politically to look cool.
Well, they can keep not doing it. There will be fines though.