REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL ​​on the overall annual costs incurred for the fulfilment of the Commission’s tasks pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 in the period from 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2025 and the total amount of the annual supervisory fees charged pursuant to Article 6(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 in 2025
Date: 2026-03-31
Institutions: Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology, European Commission
Subjects: Internet, administrative supervision, cloud computing, consumer protection, costing, digital single market, dissemination of information, information society, provision of services, service

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   EUROPEAN COMMISSION  Brussels, 31.3.2026  COM(2026) 147 final  REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL on the overall annual costs incurred for the fulfilment of the Commission’s tasks pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 in the period from 1 January 2025 until 31 December 2025 and the total amount of the annual supervisory fees charged pursuant to Article 6(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 in 2025   
 
 
1.  Introduction 

(1)  This report is addressed to the European Parliament and the Council in the context of the enforcement 
of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (1) – the Digital Services Act (DSA). The DSA lays down harmonised 
rules  applicable  to  intermediary  service  providers  to  ensure  a  safe,  predictable,  and  trusted  online 
environment  in  the  internal  market.  It  sets  out  basic  obligations  applicable  to  all  providers  of 
intermediary  services,  as  well  as  additional  obligations  for  providers  of  hosting  services  (including 
online platforms), for providers of online platforms, and for providers of very large online platforms 
(VLOPs) and of very large online search engines (VLOSEs). It also establishes a system of supervision 
and enforcement of these rules by the Commission and Member States. 

(2)  The DSA entrusts the Commission with the exclusive competence to designate VLOPs and VLOSEs 
and supervise their provider's compliance with the provisions laid down in Section 5 of Chapter III of 
the DSA as well as the competence to supervise their compliance with other provisions of the DSA. The 
Commission  is  also  mandated  to  coordinate  and  develop  expertise  and  capabilities  at  Union  level 
regarding  the  supervision  of  systemic  and  emerging  issues  in  relation  to  VLOPs  and  VLOSEs. 
Moreover, there are additional tasks assigned to the Commission that relate to the size and intrinsic 
cross-border and/or pan-EU reach of such designated services. 

(3)  To ensure that the Commission has the necessary resources to effectively carry out the supervisory tasks 
entrusted  to  it  under  the  DSA  in  terms  of  staffing,  expertise,  and  financial  means,  Article  43  DSA 
requires  the  Commission  to  levy  an  annual  supervisory  fee  on  each  provider  of  VLOP  or  VLOSE, 
subject to the conditions provided for in that Article. 

(4)  Article 43(7) DSA provides for the preparation of an annual report by the Commission, addressed to the 
European  Parliament  and  the  Council,  as  a  way to  provide  accountability  and  transparency  to  those 
institutions in respect of the actions of the Commission under the DSA, which shall be published on the 
Commission’s website pursuant to Article 8(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 
(2). In particular, the report must include information on the total amount of the supervisory fees charged 
to the providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs in the preceding year and on the overall amount of the costs 
incurred by the Commission for the fulfilment of its tasks under that Regulation, as established in Article 
8 of that Delegated Regulation. 

(5)  Accordingly, the present report provides an overview of the costs incurred by the Commission in 2025 
for the fulfilment of its tasks under the DSA.  It notably spells out the specific costs incurred for the 
fulfilment of the tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA, which are those covered with the supervisory 
fees levied in 2024.  

(6)  In addition, this report provides information on the total amount of the supervisory fees levied in 2025 
to cover the costs to be incurred by the Commission for the fulfilment of its tasks pursuant to the DSA 
in 2026. It also provides information on the status of the payments, as well as on the on-going court 
proceedings, related to the implementing decisions establishing the amount of the annual supervisory 
fees in respect of each provider. 

2.  Costs incurred by the Commission for the fulfilment of its tasks pursuant to the DSA in 2025 

(7)  This report covers the reporting period from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025. 

(1) Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 19 October 2022 on a Single Market for 
Digital  Services  and  amending  Directive  2000/31/EC  (Digital  Services  Act)  (OJ  L  277,  27.10.2022,  p.  1,  ELI: 
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/2065/oj). 
(2) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 of 2 March 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 of the 
European  Parliament  and  of  the  Council  with  the  detailed  methodologies  and  procedures  regarding  the  supervisory  fees 
charged  by  the  Commission  on  providers  of  very  large  online  platforms  and  very  large  online  search  engines  (OJ  L  149, 
9.6.2023, p. 16, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/1127/oj).   

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This period was marked by the first full year of general operation of the European Board for Digital 
Services (the ‘Board’) since its first meeting took place on 19 February 2024; the termination of the 
designation  of  Stripchat  as  a  VLOP,  (3)  which  results  in  22  VLOPs  and  2  VLOSEs  designated  by 
December 2025; the preparatory work for the designation of WhatsApp as a VLOP (effectively adopted 
on 26 January 2026) (4) and the adoption of several enforcement actions in relation to the providers of 
VLOPs and VLOSEs’ compliance with the obligations laid down under the DSA, notably those relating 
to the dissemination of illegal content, including products, as well as the integrity of electoral processes 
and the protection of minors online. In respect of the latter, the Commission published the Guidelines 
on  Measures  to  ensure  a  high  level  of  privacy,  safety  and  security  for  minors  online  in  July  2025, 
providing  a  non-exhaustive  list of measures that the Commission  considers  that  providers  of  online 
platforms accessible to minors should put in place to comply with their obligations under Article 28(1) 
DSA. (5) The Commission also initiated formal proceedings to investigate the suspected infringements 
by four providers of VLOPs disseminating pornographic content, in relation to their obligation to ensure 
a high level of protection for minors on their services and to diligently assess and effectively mitigate 
the system risk for the protection of minors stemming from their services. (6) During that same period, 
more than 80 requests for information (‘RFIs’) were sent to providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs, and 4 
additional formal proceedings were opened against several providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs, out of a 
total  of  19  formal  proceedings  opened  since  2023  until  the  end  of  2025.  Moreover  in  2025,  the 
Commission  addressed  7  preliminary  findings  to  providers  of VLOPs,  and  it  adopted  the  first  non-
compliance decision under the DSA, imposing the first ever fine for an infringement of the DSA. (7) 
The Commission also adopted a decision making the commitments offered by one provider of VLOP 
in the context of DSA proceedings legally binding upon that provider. (8) Finally, in the last quarter of 
2025, the Commission conducted the preparatory work for the adoption of the decision  (i) initiating 
proceedings against  the  provider  of  X  in  relation  to  the  deployment  of  Grok’s functionalities in the 
Union and its obligations to diligently assess and effectively mitigate the systemic risks stemming from 
that  service  related  to  the  dissemination  of  illegal  content  in  the  EU,  such  as  manipulated  sexually 
explicit  images,  and  (ii)  extending  the  proceedings  initiated  in  December  2023  in  relation  to  X’s 
recommender  systems  and  any  other  relevant  algorithmic  systems.  That  decision  was  adopted  in 
January 2026. (9) 

(8)  During  the  aforementioned  period,  the  Commission  continued  reinforcing  the  necessary  internal 
structures and allocated the appropriate human, operational and administrative resources for an effective 
enforcement  of the  DSA  and  the fulfilment  of its tasks.  This included  recruiting  staff  and  seconded 
national  experts  specialised  in  all  areas  of  work  covered  by  the  DSA,  developing  the  necessary  IT 
systems, and contracting supervisory capacity-building activities and support. 

(9)  As  regards  human  resources,  the  Commission  increased  the  number  of  staff  for  supervision  and 
enforcement of the DSA following the increase in monitoring compliance activities. In the reporting 
period,  80  staff  members  were  recruited, 
legal  officers,  policy  officers,  data 
scientists/technology  specialists,  communications  officers,  budget  and  audit  specialists  and  project 
managers. 54 of these members joined the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content 

including 

(3) Press release of 27 May 2024: https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1339. 
(4) Press release of 26 January 2026: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-designates-whatsapp-very-
large-online-platform-under-digital-services-act.  
(5) Press release of 14 July 2025: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/commission-publishes-guidelines-protection-
minors.  
(6)  Press release of 27 May 2025: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-opens-investigations-safeguard-
minors-pornographic-content-under-digital-services-act.  
(7)Press release of 5 December 2025: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-fines-x-eu120-million-under-
digital-services-act.  
(8) Press release of 18 June 2025: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-makes-aliexpress-commitments-
under-digital-services-act-binding.  
(9) Press release of 26 January 2026: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-investigates-grok-and-xs-
recommender-systems-under-digital-services-act.  

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and Technology (DG CNECT) and the remaining 26 joined the Commission representations in Member 
States. 

(10)  The  overall  costs  incurred  by  the  Commission  for  all  DSA  enforcement  tasks,  including  the  tasks 
referred to in Article 43(2) DSA (10) and other tasks fulfilled pursuant to other articles of the DSA during 
the reporting period, by cost categories, are the following: (11) 

Total incurred costs  
Human resources expenditure  
Operational and administrative expenditure  

EUR 46,14 million  
EUR 24,17 million  
EUR 21,97 million  

(11)  The  split  of  the  expenditure  between  the  tasks  referred  to  in  Article  43(2)  DSA  and  all  other  DSA 
enforcement tasks, in addition to the details per cost category, and an indication of any surplus or deficit 
generated in 2025 are presented in sections 2.1 to 2.3 below.  

2.1  Costs incurred for tasks related to Article 43(2) DSA  

(12)  Within the overall amount of costs referred to in paragraph (11) of this report, the specific expenditure 
incurred  by  the  Commission  for  the  fulfilment  of  the  tasks  referred  to  in  Article  43(2)  DSA  in  the 
reporting period, and therefore covered by the supervisory fees levied on the providers of designated 
services in 2024 is as follows: 

Costs incurred for tasks relating to Article 43(2) DSA  
Human resources expenditure  
Operational and administrative expenditure  

Supervisory capacity-building activities and support 
IT administrative agreements 
External experts 
Databases, digital tools and IT systems 
Board activities 
Missions 
Administrative expenditure for recruitment 

a.  Human resources expenditure 

EUR 42,56 million  
EUR 21,15 million  
EUR 21,41 million  

EUR 9,63 million 
EUR 4,58 million  
EUR 3,55 million 
EUR 2,84 million  
EUR 0,48 million 
EUR 0,15 million 
EUR 0,15 million 

(13)  The  yearly  calculation  of  human  resources  expenditure  has  been  performed  on  the  basis  of  average 
annual  costs  per  full-time  equivalent  (‘FTE’)  employees,  including  pro-rata  average  overhead 
expenditure and applicable social contributions related to these human resources, in line with Article 
2(2), point (a), of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127. (12) For the calculation of the 
FTEs,  the  Commission  took  into  account  only  the  effective  working  time  of  the  staff  members  in 
activities relating to the supervisory tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA and in proportion to the time 
they have worked for the Commission in 2025. 

(10) Article 43(2) DSA refers to costs related to the designation pursuant to Article 33, to the set-up, maintenance and operation 
of the database pursuant to Article 24(5) and to the information sharing system pursuant to Article 85, to referrals pursuant to 
Article 59, to supporting the Board pursuant to Article 62 and to the supervisory tasks pursuant to Article 56 and Section 4 of 
Chapter IV.   
(11) The figures presented across this document are reported in EUR million with two decimals, without any rounding technique 
applied. For this reason, some totals may not correspond with the sum of the separate figures presented in the report. 
(12) The applicable average costs per FTE are annually calculated by the Directorate-General for Budget (‘DG BUDG’) in the 
context of the preparation of the  Legislative Financial Statement and charge backs. Such average costs for the year  2025, 
already  including  pro-capita  average  operating  expenditure  of  buildings  and  IT  and  already  increased  by  the  applicable 
provision for social contributions (24,2%), amounted to EUR 237 657 for officials and temporary agents, EUR 126 839 for 
Contract Agents and EUR 132 180 for Seconded National Experts. 

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(14)  Although a total of 80 new staff members were added during 2025, the recruitment of this new staff 
occurred later than foreseen and resulted in a lower than forecasted amount of FTEs  spread over the 
year,  amounting  to  a  total  of  approximately  138  FTEs  (including  a  total  of  approximately  34  FTE 
officials and temporary agents, 92 FTE contract agents and 12 FTE seconded national experts dedicated 
to tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA) for an overall amount of EUR 21,153 million. (13) 

b.  Operational and administrative expenditure 

(15)  The calculation of the operational and administrative expenditure takes into account the costs pursuant 
to Article 2(2), point (b) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 and the non-exhaustive 
list of items in Annex I to that Delegated Regulation, in the period from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 
2025, which are necessary for the fulfilment of the tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA. The total 
operational and administrative costs in the reporting period amount to EUR 21,46 million. The activities 
performed under this cost category are described in the following paragraphs. 

(16)  Activities and support related to building supervisory capacity (EUR 9,63 million) include: 

̶ 

̶ 

The cooperation agreement signed with the European Union Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) 
(EUR  5  million)  for  the  provision  of  expertise  on  intellectual  property-related  risks  and 
infringements associated with VLOPs and VLOSEs; 
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) of the Joint Research Centre (JRC) 
(EUR  1 million)  for  the  provision  of  technical  and  scientific  support  in  investigations  and 
enforcement policies; 

̶ 

̶  Nine  service  contracts  for  technical  support  and  expertise  on  several  topics,  among  others  the 
following:  DSA  transparency  database,  gender-based  violence  and  illegal  content,    misuse  of 
VLOPs and VLOSEs for illegal activities, recommender system transparency, financial scams and 
protection of minors (EUR 3,54 million); 
The organisation of trainings to officers with a focus on capabilities being developed regarding the 
technical monitoring of VLOPs and VLOSEs (EUR 0,04 million); 
The  organisation  of  workshops  and  conferences  with  stakeholders  on  systemic  risks  (EUR 
0,04 million); and 
Preparatory  activities  on  access  to  data  for  researchers  based  on  Article  40  DSA  (EUR 
0,01 million). 

̶ 

̶ 

(17)  The  IT  administrative  agreements  (EUR  4,58 million)  consist of  the following  two  signed  by  DG 

CNECT with: 

̶ 

̶ 

The Directorate-General for Digital Services (DG DIGIT) (EUR 3,71 million) for the provision of 
specialised IT services and cloud resources, and IT support for the DSA Data Access Portal, the 
Platforms Portal, and the information sharing system pursuant to Articles 9, 10 and 85 DSA;   
The Directorate-General for Competition (DG COMP) (EUR 0,87 million) for the provision of IT 
capacity  and  support  concerning  case  management  and  compliance  supervision  of  VLOPs  and 
VLOSEs. 

(18)  The expenditure in external experts (EUR 3,55 million) concerns service contracts for: 

̶ 

IT  experts  (EUR  3,41  million)  under  the  supervision  of  DG  CNECT,  performing  tasks  of 
development and maintenance of the information system pursuant to Article 85 DSA, the database 
pursuant  to  Article  24(5)  DSA,  and  IT  tools  to  exchange  communications  with  VLOPs  and 

(13) The number of FTEs reported in section 2.1 of this report does not represent the total number of Commission staff members 
working on DSA activities in 2025. It strictly includes the effective working time of staff members covered by Article 43(2) 
DSA tasks and the proportion of time they worked on those tasks during that year, with the recruitments gradually increasing 
from Q1 to Q4. 

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VLOSEs.  During  the  reporting  period,  external  experts  were  contracted  in  the  following  IT 
domains: back-end and front-end development; business intelligence; database, application, cloud, 
and  enterprise  architecture;  cloud  operations;  data  science;  testing;  information  and  document 
management;  IT  security;  IT  quality  assurance;  support  management;  system  engineering  and 
integration; user experience; web operations; and business analysis.  

̶  Agency staff (interim) (EUR 0,138 million) with legal, policy, data science and secretariat profiles, 
providing support to DG CNECT staff on the enforcement tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA. 
During the reporting period, 12 agency staff were contracted. 

(19)  The expenditure in databases, digital tools and IT systems (EUR 2,84 million) includes the acquisition 
of specialised equipment for compliance monitoring, forensics capacity, data rooms, and licenses for 
existing commercialised software and databases relating to the implementation of the supervisory tasks 
pursuant to Article 43(2) DSA. It also covers the provision of IT services for the  maintenance of the 
DSA  Information  Sharing  System  pursuant  to  Article  85  DSA,  including  the  set-up  of  the  order-
transmission system pursuant to Articles 9 and 10 DSA. Last, it includes the maintenance of the DSA 
Whistleblower tool. (14) 

(20)  The  expenditure  in  Board  activities  (EUR  0,48 million)  includes  the  organisation  of  five  in-person 
meetings out of the nine meetings (the other ones taking place remotely) held by the Board (including 
three  ad  hoc  meetings)  and  six  in-person  meetings  out  of  the  sixteen  meetings  held  by  the  Board’s 
Working Groups (15), as well as capacity building activities in the form of a training addressed to the 
Digital Services Coordinators. 

(21)  The administrative expenditure for recruitment includes the costs incurred for the recruitment of 
Commission staff working on supervisory tasks pursuant to Article 43(2) DSA, such as reimbursement 
of travel expenses to participate in the selection processes and onboarding costs (EUR 0,15 million). 

(22)  The  expenditure  in  supervisory  travel  costs  (missions)  (EUR  0,15  million)  includes  the  costs  for 
Commission staff to participate in missions during 2025 on activities relating to the direct supervision 
of VLOPs and VLOSEs and to the development of expertise and capacity building on systemic and 
emerging risks. 

2.2  Costs incurred for DSA tasks that are not related to Article 43(2) DSA  

(23)  The differences in the costs for all DSA tasks and for only the tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA are 
explained by the following expenditure paid by Union budget appropriations and not by the  external 
assigned revenues resulting from the annual supervisory fee: 

Costs incurred for tasks not relating to 
Article 43(2) DSA 
Human resources expenditure 

EUR 3,57 million 

EUR 3,02 million 

Operational and administrative expenditure 

EUR 0,55 million 

(24)  The  human  resources  expenditure  of  EUR  3,02  million  is  due  to  the  fulfilment  of  tasks  such  as 
monitoring of national legislation and structures, interservice coordination in adjacent topics to ensure 
consistency of Union laws with the DSA, adoption of Commission reports or general policy guidance, 
supporting  enforcement  vis-à-vis  non-designated  providers  and  other  tasks  not  related  to  the  DSA 
supervisory tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA.  

(14) https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-whistleblower-tool. 
(15) The European Board for Digital Services has set up 8 Working Groups supporting the Board's mission:  https://digital-
strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/dsa-board-working-groups. 

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(25)  The operational and administrative expenditure of EUR 0,55 million is due to the cost of the following 

expenditure not related to the DSA supervisory tasks referred to in Article 43(2) DSA: 

̶ 

Four service contracts relating to the Guidelines on Measures to ensure a high level of privacy, 
safety and security for minors online, out-of-court dispute settlement pursuant to Article 21 
DSA, the evaluation under Article 91(1) DSA of the interaction of the DSA with other relevant 
Union legal acts the interaction between the DSA and national measures (EUR 0,35 million); 

̶  Agency staff (interim) (EUR 0,02 million); 
̶  Non-supervisory missions (EUR 0,06 million); 
̶  Advisory services provided by DIGIT (EUR 0,09 million); 
̶ 

Costs  in  relation  to  DSA  workshops  on  online  advertising  (Article  46  DSA),  the 
reimbursement of costs due to the attendance at conferences and payment of an expert on the 
Data Access Delegated Act (EUR 0,007 million); 

̶  Meetings with Member States within the Digital Expert Group (EUR 0,006 million). 

2.3  Surplus or deficit 

(26)  Pursuant to Article 8(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127, this report must indicate 
any costs incurred during the reporting period that exceeded the amount of estimated costs for the same 
period, or any surplus, as applicable. 

(27)  The comparison of the estimation of costs performed in 2024 for the calculation of the supervisory fees 
levied on that year and the actual expenditure incurred in  2025 in relation to the tasks referred to in 
Article 43(2) DSA shows that the expenditure in human resources was EUR 8,061 million lower than 
estimated, and operational and administrative expenditure was EUR 7,592 million lower. This resulted 
in a surplus of EUR 15,653 million. 

Forecasted in 
SWD (2024) 
(million) 

Actual 
expenditure in 
2025 (million) 

Surplus (+)/ 
Deficit (-) 
(million) 

Total expenditure 

EUR 58,219 

EUR 42,566 

 (+) EUR 15,653 

Human resources expenditure  
Operational and administrative 
expenditure  

EUR 29,214 
EUR 29,005 

EUR 21,153 
EUR 21,412 

(+) EUR   8,061 
(+) EUR   7,592 

(28)  Pursuant to Article 2(3) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127, the surplus generated 
in 2025, and that amounts to EUR 15 653 141, will be taken into account in the estimation of the overall 
annual costs that are expected to be incurred for the performance of the Commission’s tasks referred to 
in Article 43(2) DSA in year 2027. 

3.  Overall amount of supervisory fees levied in 2025 

(29)  Article 2 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 provides that the costs to be estimated 
for the supervisory fees levied in year n should be determined by taking into account all human resources 
to be employed by the Commission, as well as other operational and administrative expenditures related 
to the fulfilment of the tasks referred to in Article 43(2) of DSA in the year n+1. 

(30)  Article 43(6) DSA provides that the individual annual supervisory fees levied on each provider of VLOP 
or  VLOSE  pursuant  to  Article  43(1)  DSA  constitutes  external  assigned  revenue  in  accordance  with 

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Article  21(5)  of  Regulation  (EU,  Euratom)  2024/2509  of  the  European  Parliament  and  of  the 
Council. (16) 

(31)  The estimated total external assigned revenues deriving from the supervisory fees levied at the end of 
2025  for  the  year  2026,  was  included  in  the  General  Budget  of  the  Union  for  Financial  Year  2026 
pursuant to Article 41(8) of Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509. The overview of elements accounted 
for the estimation of the amount of external assigned revenue stemming from the supervisory fee, based 
on the forecasts of expenditure for 2026, was published on 27 June 2025. (17) The supervisory fees levied 
in 2025 therefore did not cover any expenditure incurred by the Commission to effectively carry out its 
supervisory tasks in the Union in the period running from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2025, as they 
will only cover expenditure incurred in the year 2026. 

(32)  Pursuant to Article 8(3) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1127, the Commission must 
indicate  in  the  present  report  the  overall  amount  of  supervisory  fees  levied,  including  the  date  of 
respective  payments,  any  missing  or  late  payment,  on-going  court  proceedings  related  to  the 
implementing decisions referred to in Article 6(4) of the Delegated Regulation and recovery procedures 
referred  to  in  Article  7(2)  of  that  Regulation  related  to  the  supervisory  fees  levied,  at  the  date  of 
finalisation of the report. 

(33)  The overall amount of supervisory fees levied in 2025 to cover costs of the Commission in 2026 was 
EUR 54 819 372. All providers of designated services sent their payments to the Commission by the 
established deadline of 31 December 2025. There are no missing or overdue payments at the time of 
publication of this report as regards the supervisory fees levied on providers of designated services in 
2025. 

(34)  At  the  date  of  finalisation  of  this  report,  there  are  eleven  ongoing  court  proceedings  related  to  the 
implementing  decisions  referred  to  in  Article  6(4)  of  Commission  Delegated  Regulation  (EU) 
2023/1127. These court proceedings are listed in the table below.  

Case number 

Designated service(s) 

Year of adoption of the 
challenged implementing 
decision 

T-55/24  
(under appeal C-744/25 P) 
T-58/24  
(under appeal C-745/25 P) 

T-88/25 

T-89/25 

T-92/25 

T-70/26 

Facebook and Instagram 

TikTok 

TikTok 

Facebook and Instagram 

Google Maps, Google Play, 
Google Search, Google 
Shopping and YouTube 

Stripchat 

2023 

2023 

2024 

2024 

2024 

2025 

applicable 

the  general  budget  of 

(16) Regulation (EU, Euratom) 2024/2509 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 September 2024 on the financial 
rules 
(recast),  OJ  L,  2024/2509,  26.9.2024,  ELI: 
the  Union 
to 
http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2024/2509/oj. 
(17) Commission Staff Working Document, ‘Overview of elements accounted for the estimation of the amount of external 
assigned revenues stemming from the supervisory fee pursuant to Article 6(1) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 
2023/1127’,  27.6.2025  SWD(2025)175  final  (https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/overview-elements-accounted-
estimation-amount-external-assigned-revenues-stemming-0). 

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T-73/26 

Facebook and Instagram 

T-89/26 

T-90/26 

T-91/26 

T-92/26 

Google Maps, Google Play, 
Google Search, Google 
Shopping and YouTube 

TikTok 

Amazon Store 

Zalando 

2025 

2025 

2025 

2025 

2025 

(35)  There  are  no  ongoing  recovery  procedures  referred  to  in  Article  7(2)  of  Commission  Delegated 

Regulation (EU) 2023/1127 related to the supervisory fees levied. 

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