{"id":31192,"date":"2025-06-18T08:38:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=31192"},"modified":"2025-06-18T08:38:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T08:38:55","slug":"brussels-accuses-aliexpress-of-breaking-eu-digital-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=31192","title":{"rendered":"Brussels accuses AliExpress of breaking EU digital rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\"><span>Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=95910c35-b461-4df4-9d44-fd3904fe18d4\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The EU is accusing Chinese online marketplace AliExpress of breaching the bloc\u2019s digital rules, as Brussels continues its efforts to utilise landmark legislation to police internet businesses.<\/p>\n<p>In preliminary findings issued on Wednesday, regulators said they were worried about the lack of effective measures from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/stream\/e726847b-b17a-4219-92cc-2e24b692f275\" data-trackable=\"link\">AliExpress<\/a> to prevent the dissemination of illegal content such as counterfeit goods or unsafe products. <\/p>\n<p>Brussels also accused the company of failing to appropriately enforce its penalty policy concerning traders that repeatedly post illegal content.<\/p>\n<p>The decision comes as the bloc is cracking down on Chinese online retailers, especially when it comes to low-cost imports. More than nine out of 10 packages imported to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/european-union\" data-trackable=\"link\">EU<\/a> come from China.<\/p>\n<p>Brussels has already suggested a \u20ac2 fee on small packages entering the EU. Brussels has also launched an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/067ba5bb-4da3-42fc-a57b-9dd27a8f9255\" data-trackable=\"link\">investigation into Shein<\/a>, the Asian ecommerce platform that relies on a Chinese supply chain, amid concerns that the company is violating European consumer protection rules.<\/p>\n<p>The Digital Services Act forces large online platforms to police their platforms more aggressively, with additional obligations to a number of big tech groups including Instagram, Google and TikTok.<\/p>\n<p>Under the landmark legislation, companies that fail to curb illegal content and disinformation face penalties of up to 6 per cent of their annual global turnover.<\/p>\n<p>Another part of the investigation in AliExpress, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/luxembourg.representation.ec.europa.eu\/actualites-et-evenements\/actualites\/commission-opens-formal-proceedings-against-aliexpress-under-digital-services-act-2024-03-14_en\" data-trackable=\"link\">launched<\/a> last year, was closed by the European Commission as the platform came forward with certain commitments, for example on the transparency of advertising systems, data access for researchers and a searchable and reliable repository for advertisements.<\/p>\n<p>Those commitments were welcomed by the EU\u2019s tech chief Henna Virkkunen. \u201cWe have been able to take concrete steps to ensure a high level of safety for EU citizens while maintaining a level playing field for platforms and traders in the EU market,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/95910c35-b461-4df4-9d44-fd3904fe18d4\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the Editor\u2019s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tech","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}