About Immoweb
Belgium's leading real estate website
For 30 years, Immoweb has been the largest digital real estate portal in Belgium, where buyers and sellers, tenants and landlords connect. Immoweb is the first stop for every Belgian dreaming of real estate: every day, you’ll find nearly 150,000 properties for sale or rent. Immoweb offers the most comprehensive range of real estate: houses, apartments, building plots, garages, offices, retail spaces, and industrial properties, from new developments to exceptional historic buildings.
Thanks to our free estimation tool, owners can quickly find out how much their property is worth.
Follow our news and insights on the real estate market at blog.immoweb.be (only available in French and Dutch).
About AVIV Group
The AVIV Group is one of the world’s largest digital real estate tech businesses. AVIV’s unique family of leading brands include some of Europe’s best-known digital real estate classified companies: Groupe SeLoger and Meilleurs Agents (France), Immowelt Group (Germany) and Immoweb (Belgium).
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On November 16th 2022, the Digital Services Act (the “DSA”) became effective. It sets a new standard for the transparency and accountability of online platforms in order to equally protect all users within the European Union (EU) both in terms of safety from illegal goods, content, or services, and in terms of their fundamental rights online.
Per Article 24(2) of the DSA, online platform providers must disclose on a recurring basis and at least every six months ‘information on the average monthly active recipients of the service in the Union, calculated as an average over the period of the past six months” on a publicly available section of their online interface. This is to determine whether a platform is considered a ‘very large online platform’ (VLOP), meaning it has an average of at least 45 million active users per month in the EU. Due to the significant impact they have on the distribution of content throughout the EU, VLOPs are governed by increased regulation under the DSA.
The concept of active recipient is a new concept defined by the DSA. A ‘recipient of the service’ means any person who uses an intermediary service, including advertisers and traders, as well as regular users (Article 3(b) DSA). An ‘active recipient of an online platform’ is someone who has “engaged with an online platform by either requesting it to host information or being exposed to information hosted by the online platform and disseminated through its online interface’ (Article 3(p) DSA).
Recital 77 of the DSA provides further guidance on the definition of active recipient, by, for example, excluding visits from automated users such as bots or scrapers, and clarifying that only unique recipients of the service should be counted. However, the definition is still open, and no specific methodology has yet been provided by the European Commission for calculating active recipients under the DSA.
Per Article 24(2) of the DSA, we have determined the average number of monthly active recipients of our services in the EU. Our findings indicate that the average number of monthly active recipients of our platform in the European Union is below 45 million users.