On 26 October the European Commission accepted Temu's action plan to remedy its breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) concerning the risk assessment for illegal products. The plan contains five measures: a platform-specific risk assessment, effectiveness metrics, a review of content moderation limits, analysis of the role of recommender systems and an investigation into deliberate manipulation by sellers. Temu has four months to implement it and must carry out an interim assessment for the six months to 30 November 2026. It follows the May 2026 non-compliance decision with a €200 million fine.

What it means: The decision closes the first round of one of the most prominent DSA cases: the Commission found a breach, imposed a fine and is now accepting a specific remedy plan with deadlines and independent auditing. The core of the case is not that illegal products are sold on Temu, but that the platform had not properly assessed the risk, as the regulation requires of very large online platforms. The duty to submit an external audit within four months of implementation means compliance will be verified by third parties, not only by the company's own statements. For Greek retailers competing with platforms selling cheap imported goods, stricter supervision may gradually limit products that do not meet European safety standards. Consumers, for their part, gain better protection against products that break the rules without losing access to the platform. For Greek sellers who use such platforms or run their own marketplace, the case shows that seller verification and removal of dangerous products will be enforced more strictly, and that it pays to keep full compliance records for everything they sell.

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