{"id":135674,"date":"2025-02-18T15:00:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/news\/?id=6agg0lja"},"modified":"2025-02-18T15:00:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-18T15:00:39","slug":"new-requirement-for-apps-on-the-app-store-in-the-european-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2025\/02\/18\/new-requirement-for-apps-on-the-app-store-in-the-european-union\/","title":{"rendered":"New requirement for apps on the App\u00a0Store in the European\u00a0Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/new-requirement-for-apps-on-the-app-store-in-the-european-union.png\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>As of today<\/strong>, apps without trader status have been removed from the App&nbsp;Store in the European&nbsp;Union&nbsp;(EU) until trader status is provided and verified by Apple.<\/p>\n<p>Account Holders or Admins in the Apple Developer Program will need to enter this status in App Store Connect to comply with the <a href=\"https:\/\/commission.europa.eu\/strategy-and-policy\/priorities-2019-2024\/europe-fit-digital-age\/digital-services-act_en\">Digital Services Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/help\/app-store-connect\/manage-compliance-information\/manage-european-union-digital-services-act-compliance-information\/\">Learn what a trader is and how to enter <span class=\"icon icon-after icon-chevronright nowrap\">your status<\/span><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As of today, apps without trader status have been removed from the App&nbsp;Store in the European&nbsp;Union&nbsp;(EU) until trader status is provided and verified by Apple. Account Holders or Admins in the Apple Developer Program will need to enter this status in App Store Connect to comply with the Digital Services Act. Learn what a trader [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apple-developer-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}