The Digital Services Act (DSA) is the successor to the e-Commerce Directive and forms the European “Constitution for Online Services”. The new Act includes obligations for providers of digital services in order to ensure that activities that are illegal offline are also prohibited online. Understanding the new law in time This Practitioner’s Guide provides clarity at an early stage, both for companies offering online services and for users of digital services. It clarifies in a comprehensible and legally secure manner which providers are affected under which conditions, which obligations they must comply with, which innovations apply to liability on the internet and what the consequences of breaches of law are.