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| 26. | The requirements of Article 5 apply to providers of online intermediation services and online search engines. If providers of online search engines are (vertically or horizontally) integrated, part of what they offer may be online intermediation services as well. Similarly, ‘conglomerate’ providers of online intermediation services may incorporate several online intermediation services in a single corporate structure. As explained above, in such cases, the obligations of Article 5 will then in principle apply separately for each online search engine as well as for each online intermediation service provided, as otherwise it will normally not be possible to provide meaningful explanations to the users concerned. In this respect, the following issues could arise.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-25 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.