While noting some progress, “the Commission preliminarily found AliExpress in breach of its obligation to assess and mitigate risks related to the dissemination of illegal products” under the EU’s Digital Services Act (DSA), a statement said.
The commission’s preliminary findings concluded that “AliExpress fails to appropriately enforce its penalty policy concerning traders that repeatedly post illegal content”.
Those findings were “in breach of the obligations” that the DSA imposes on very large platforms -- such as AliExpress, Facebook and Instagram -- with more than 45 million monthly European users, the commission said.
If AliExpress is confirmed to be in non-compliance with the DSA, the commission could impose a fine of up to six percent of the firm’s global turnover.
It took action against AliExpress after identifying likely failings to prevent the sale of fake medicines, prevent minors seeing pornography, stop affiliated influencers pushing illegal products, and other issues including data access for researchers.
Steps included improvements to its systems for detecting illegal products such as medicines and pornographic material, notably goods spread through hidden links and affiliate programmes.
The commission also said AliExpress had addressed concerns regarding the flagging of illegal products, the handling of internal complaints, ad transparency, the traceability of traders and research access to data.
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