EU Commission makes TikTok's DSA advertising-repository commitments binding for five years

What happened

On 5 December 2025 the European Commission adopted a decision making binding, for five years, commitments offered by TikTok Technology Limited in case DSA.100109 – TikTok, and bringing the proceedings in that case to an end. The summary was published in the Official Journal on 13 March 2026. The proceedings had been opened on 19 February 2024 over TikTok's compliance with Article 39(1) of the Digital Services Act, concerning its repository of advertisements (the Commercial Content Library). The commitments include adding search filters, raising the fuzzy-search result limit from 1,000 to 5,000 entries per query, and cutting the standard time for advertisements to appear in the repository from up to 48 hours to within 24 hours.

Why it may matter to you

The commitments change how TikTok's advertising repository can be searched and how quickly ads appear in it — the transparency tools researchers and the public use to see what ads run on the platform.

What is not yet known

The decision records no finding of infringement: TikTok offered the commitments without acknowledging any infringement.