What type of law is the DSA?

The DSA is an EU regulation and is therefore directly applicable in all EU Member States without any additional transposition into national law. The regulation was established on the Union level to harmonise diverging national law and to avoid regulatory fragmentation which adversely affects the single market. It is important to note that the DSA has extra-territorial scope, meaning that it applies to companies outside of the EU that provide services to recipients within the EU of the types caught by the DSA.