Recital 69

The Commission should be in possession of all the necessary resources, in terms of staffing, expertise, and financial means, for the performance of its tasks under this Regulation. In order to ensure the availability of the resources necessary for the adequate supervision at Union level under this Regulation the Commission should charge an annual supervisory fee, the level of which should be established on an annual basis, on providers of online social networking services, video-sharing platform services, of software application stores and of AI companions and of general conversational chatbots, which it enjoys the competence to supervise with regard to compliance with Chapters II to V of this Regulation and that are designated as very large online platforms pursuant to Article 33 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. The annual supervisory fee required for the enforcement of this Regulation vis-à-vis those providers should be integrated in the supervisory fee charged to such providers of very large online platforms pursuant to Article 43 of Regulation (EU) 2022/2065. Similarly to that supervisory fee, the external assigned revenues resulting from the annual supervisory fee under this Regulation should cover additional human resources in the Commission, including officials, contract agents and national experts. Finally, the cap on the supervisory fee introduced in this Regulation should be taken together with the cap laid down in Regulation (EU) 2022/2065 and should ensure that overall resources of the Commission are sufficient to carry out its tasks under this Regulation and Regulation (EU) 2022/2065.