The most important points:
- Improvements on mandatory warranty (Gewährleistung)
- Warranty for "free" (pay with data) contracts
- obligation for function-maintaining updates and security updates
- platform operators are obliged to disclose the essential parameters of the ranking of search results and their weighting before the conclusion of the contract
- providers will have to disclose if a price has been personalised on the basis of an automated decision
Furthermore contracts will be cancelable every month after the initial (max. 24 month) period from 1st December 2021 (yesterday), however that is not part of this source as it is another law.