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COMMUNICATION FROM THE COMMISSION Commission Guidelines for providers of Very Large Online Platforms and Very Large Online Search Engines on the mitigation of systemic risks for electoral processes pursuant to Article 35(3) of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 · European Union

| 53. | Incidents occurring on- or off- platform during an electoral period can have rapid and high-impact consequences for the integrity of elections or public security. The Commission recommends, as a result, that providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs put in place an internal incident response mechanism, involving also the senior leadership, as well as a mapping of the stakeholders involved within the organisation in responding to the incident. This procedure should be set-up, agreed-upon and tested, including through red teaming exercises, beforehand so it can be applied quickly. This procedure also needs to be consistent, repeatable and auditable, and produce well-documented decisions and outcomes, so that providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs can review their responses after high impact events.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-09-07 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.