European Union: Technius filed lawsuit seeking annulment of decision imposing supervisory fees to Stripchat under Digital Services Act

On 3 February 2026, Technius LTD filed an action before the General Court of the European Union against European Commission Implementing Decision C(2025) 8119 final of 26 November 2025 (Case T-70/26), which determined the annual supervisory fee applicable to Stripchat under the Digital Services Act (DSA). Technius raises 3 pleas in law, which concern the validity of the underlying designation decision, the principle of sound administration, and the duty to state reasons. Technius argues that the European Commission based the contested fee decision on a designation decision under Article 33(4) DSA classifying Stripchat as a very large online platform, which Technius contends is neither final nor binding and is vitiated by a material error of fact, as the third-party data used to establish that Stripchat exceeded 45 million monthly active users in the European Union was subsequently corrected by the data provider. Technius further argues that the European Commission breached the principle of sound administration by issuing the fee decision without awaiting the outcome of the pending proceedings on the designation decision, and that the contested decision fails to explain its legal and factual link to the designation decision in breach of the duty to state reasons under Article 296(2) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). Technius seeks annulment of the contested decision.