Source: European Parliament
The organisation and conduct of elections are the competence and responsibility of the Member States, in accordance with their national constitutional rules and legislation, as well as their international obligations and applicable EU law. National authorities and courts are primarily responsible for ensuring compliance with the applicable rules.
With regards to the Romanian elections of May 2025, the Commission has been closely following relevant developments regarding the obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA), and has been in frequent contact with national authorities, non-governmental organisations and Very Large Online Platforms and Search Engines.
At the request of the Digital Services Coordinator, the Commission also supported the organisation of a roundtable and a tabletop Exercise with the above stakeholders to ensure election preparedness for the new round of elections.
In response to the formal initiation of proceedings 17 December 2024under the DSA[1] TikTok has made a number of changes to its systems and processes, including access to platform data, improving political account labelling, designing tools for users to manage content recommendations, and reinforcing internal resources, in particular in their election task force working on covert influence campaigns and advertising integrity.
The investigation is ongoing: and the Commission continues to gather and analyse evidence, as well as assess TikTok’s changes.
- [1] Commission opens formal proceedings against TikTok on election risks under the Digital Services Act — https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_24_6487.