Verifiable timeline of the deployment of Spain's National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) as Digital Services Coordinator under Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 (DSA). The tracker measures a concrete gap: the distance between the coordinator's formal designation (January 2024) and its real enforcement. As of May 2026 that gap remains open: the legal enabling was repealed, the European Commission opened infringement proceedings against Spain, and the CNMC has still not approved its sanctioning regime nor certified trusted flaggers nor imposed its own DSA sanctions. Each record documents a milestone with its status and official source.
Statistical readings derived from the attributes of each recorded case. All figures come from the documented events; amounts are computed only over cases with a sum expressed in the indicated currency, without converting between currencies.
Spain designated the CNMC as its Digital Services Coordinator in January 2024. Two years later, that coordinator still cannot sanction: the legal enabling was repealed, Brussels opened infringement proceedings and the sanctioning regime remains unapproved. This tracker measures that gap between having the authority named and having it operational.
The European Digital Services Act requires each member state to name a national authority —the Digital Services Coordinator— to supervise and sanction the platforms established in its territory. Spain completed the formality in January 2024: it designated the National Markets and Competition Commission, with powers to impose fines of up to 6% of large platforms' global turnover. On paper, an authority with teeth.
The problem is what happened next, and it is exactly what this tracker documents. The designation was not enough: a legal enabling was needed to expand the CNMC's powers and resources. That enabling, agreed in December 2024, lapsed weeks later when the decree containing it was not ratified. The European Commission, which monitors DSA application, opened infringement proceedings against Spain. And by April 2026 the Government was still processing a new bill to make operational a coordinator named two years earlier.
Of the six documented milestones in the Spanish DSA Coordinator's rollout, only one —the initial designation— is marked 'completed'. The rest are pending, repealed, under supervision or under European infringement proceedings. The authority exists on the org chart; enforcement, not yet.
This distinction —between a designated authority and one that sanctions— is exactly the kind of nuance a compliance team, a law firm or a platform needs, and which the headline 'Spain already has a DSA coordinator' hides. For a platform established in Spain, the operational question is not whether a coordinator exists, but whether that coordinator can open a case and fine it today. As of May 2026, the answer remains nuanced: the CNMC supervises and cooperates with Brussels —as in the Temu monitoring— but its full national sanctioning capacity is not consolidated.
What Spain illustrates is not an isolated case, but the pattern running through all of Diálogo Ciudadano's trackers: the distance between the law passed and the law applied. The DSA is among the world's most ambitious digital rules, but its force depends on each state activating its coordinator. Documenting that activation milestone by milestone —with its status and source— turns a regulatory promise into a verifiable data point of real enforcement.
The PSOE files a bill in Congress to enable the CNMC as coordinator and provide it with staff and resources. Two years after the designation, the coordinator still does not operate with full sanctioning powers.
In 2025 the CNMC monitors the compliance of Temu, a platform investigated by the European Commission over the sale of illegal products affecting Spanish consumers. The action is supervisory and cooperative, with no final national sanction.
After a reasoned opinion, the European Commission gives Spain two months to remedy the shortcomings in the coordinator's effective designation, under threat of taking the case to the EU Court of Justice.
The CNMC's formal enabling, agreed in December 2024, lapsed when the decree containing it was not ratified. The Council of Ministers approves RDL 1/2025 on 28 January to reintroduce the powers, amid parliamentary instability.
Despite the designation, the CNMC has not approved the applicable sanctioning regime nor certified trusted flaggers nor out-of-court dispute bodies: real sanctioning capacity is not operational.
Spain complies with DSA Article 49.3 by designating the CNMC as national coordinating authority, with powers of supervision, investigation and sanction of up to 6% of large platforms' global turnover.