Verified position
The Commission describes the Digital Fairness Act as an initiative under preparation. Its proposed purpose is to strengthen consumer protection in the digital environment.
No DFA legislative proposal, COM proposal reference, CELEX proposal identifier or legislative procedure number was identified in this review. No DFA articles, recitals, annexes, explanatory memorandum or accompanying impact assessment are reproduced here.
The eventual legal form is not established by the sources reviewed. Titles used for preparatory work do not establish whether the proposal will be a directive, regulation or amending instrument.
Supporting official sources
- European Commission — Review of EU consumer law: identifies the DFA as under preparation.
- EPRS — Towards a digital fairness act, 5 October 2026: describes a Commission initiative in preparation and discusses the unresolved legal form.
- Commission implementation tracker: lists the DFA among planned initiatives. Timings are indicative.
EUR-Lex title searches and an OEIL web-index search did not identify a DFA proposal or procedure. This is not a claim that every register entry was exhaustively inspected. Some EUR-Lex records required browser verification.
When the proposal is published
The official proposal will receive a separate, permanent record. Complete text will be added only after the wording, document structure, metadata and reuse conditions have been checked against the institutional original.
Each institutional version and official language will remain separate. Preparatory records will keep their existing URLs.
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