# Commission accepts X’s action plan to comply with Digital Services Act

Source: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-accepts-xs-action-plan-comply-digital-services-act
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## Summary

The European Commission has accepted X's action plan to comply with transparency obligations and researchers' access to data under the Digital Services Act. The measures follow a December 2025 Commission decision that X breached the DSA and a fine, and they include a better advertising repository, free-of-charge data access for eligible researchers, and an independent external audit. X has six months to implement the measures, after which it must issue and submit an audit to the Commission. The Board for Digital Services considered the changes partially adequate but found X's audit measures and overall action plan insufficient to address the infringements.

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The European Commission has accepted X’s action plan to comply with transparency obligations and researchers’ access to data, under the Digital Services Act.

The approved measures represent an important step in enabling researchers, civil society and the public in general to gain more transparency into X’s systems, in particular to monitor X’s systemic risks and to assess the platform’s broader impact on its users and European society as a whole.

Following the Commission’s decision that X is in breach of the DSA and a fine in December 2025, X committed to improving its advertising repository with better search features and faster response times. It will also publish more information about advertisements and enable access via an API.

X will also give eligible researchers effective access to public data by improving and speeding up the screening process for applications, giving access to data free-of-charge, and updating its terms to refrain from contractually prohibiting eligible researchers to scrape public data.

An independent external audit will assess these changes, whose results X will submit to the Commission. If the audit identifies recommendations, X will need to fully implement them.

The Board for Digital Services was consulted on these measures and provided its opinion on 15 June. It considered the proposed changes partially adequate, but deemed X’s audit measures and, as a result, the overall action plan insufficient to address the infringements. In its assessment, the Commission carefully considered the Board's opinion, recognising the Board's critical role in evaluating X's proposed measures under the Digital Services Act. Following the Board’s opinion, the Commission has clarified several points that X must consider in the implementation of the action plan.

X has six months to implement the measures set out in its action plan and it must then issue, and submit to the Commission, an audit of the measures. The Commission will closely monitor progress, in particular on the issues raised by the Board. The Commission will also regularly update the Board and the Digital Services Coordinators on the implementation of the action plan and on its ongoing monitoring activities.

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