Urbano Reviglio (1) and Matteo Fabbri (2) (1) Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom, European University Institute, Fiesole (2) IMT School for Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy In this contribution, we offer a critical overview of the interplay between the DSA requirements on the transparency and user controls for recommender systems and the design features that may be operationalized to comply with them.