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Digital Governance

EU Digital Services Act Legal Representative

Intermediary services without an EU establishment that offer their service in the Union must designate a legal representative in a member state under Article 13 DSA. We take that role from Germany.

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Scope

Who needs one?

Providers established outside the EU that offer these services in the Union:

  • Hosting services, including cloud and web hosting
  • Online platforms such as marketplaces, app stores, social networks and content sharing sites
  • Caching and mere conduit services, such as CDNs, DNS and VPN providers
  • Online search engines

A service counts as offered in the Union when it has a substantial connection to it: a significant number of EU users, or activities targeted at member states.

The role

What the representative is for

Under Art. 13 Digital Services Act, Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, the representative:

  1. 01

    Is addressed, in addition to or instead of the provider, by member state authorities, the Commission and the Board on everything needed to receive, comply with and enforce their decisions

  2. 02

    Is notified with name, postal address, email and telephone number to the Digital Services Coordinator of its member state, and published by the provider

  3. 03

    Can be held liable for the provider’s non-compliance with the DSA, without prejudice to the provider’s own liability

What you receive

What we do as your representative

Written mandate

A signed appointment you can show to authorities and partners, naming Cloudkasten GmbH in Germany as your representative.

Receipt and forwarding

Correspondence from authorities is received at our registered office, logged and forwarded to your named contacts without delay.

DSC notification

We prepare the notification of your legal representative to the German Digital Services Coordinator and give you the details to publish.

A real German company

Cloudkasten GmbH, registered in Germany, with German-admitted lawyers involved in running the service. Not a mailbox.

Your own obligations under the law stay with you; the representative does not take them over. Substantive legal advice is available as a separate engagement.

Get started

Request a quote

Tell us about your service. We check that the mandate fits, then send you a fixed annual quote and the mandate to sign.

  1. Send the form
  2. Short review call or email
  3. Quote and mandate
  4. Designation letter once signed

Need a GDPR Article 27 representative too? That one you can book online.

We usually reply within one business day with the questions we need answered and a fixed quote. No payment is taken online for this service.

FAQ

Common questions

No. Articles 11 and 12 DSA require points of contact for authorities and for users, which you can run yourself. Article 13 additionally requires a legal representative in the EU if you have no establishment there.
Under Article 13(3) the legal representative can be held liable for non-compliance and must have the powers and resources to cooperate with authorities. That is why the mandate is held by Cloudkasten GmbH, a registered company, and agreed after we have looked at your service.
Sources

Legal text and related services

Legal text

Regulation (EU) 2022/2065, Digital Services Act (EUR-Lex)

Other representations

EU GDPR Article 27 Representative EU e-Evidence Legal Representative EU Data Act Legal Representative EU NIS 2 Representative EU AI Act Authorised Representative

This page is general information about the designation duty, not legal advice. Questions? Contact us.