The European Commission has launched a review of its digital competition rules for Big Tech and is seeking views on how the regulation has worked to date and whether it needs to be reformed.
The Digital Markets Act fully came into effect in the Spring of 2024 and includes a list of do’s and don’ts for the six Big Tech companies that fall under its scope: Meta, Google, Alphabet, Apple, ByteDance and Amazon.
The law, which is intended to ensure competition within a tech sector dominated by global giants, has become heavily politicized in recent months, with the U.S. administration accusing the EU of unfairly targeting American companies and classing it as a non-tariff trade barrier in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.
The EU executive is asking the public to give their views on whether the DMA has met its core objectives to inject fairness and contestability into digital markets, as well as its real-world impact. The Commission is obliged to review the regulation by mid-2026.
Interested parties are also asked to give feedback on whether the Commission should modify its list of prescriptions and prohibitions, or the list of core platform services covered by the DMA.
Senior members of the European Parliament have called on their Commission to designate AI chatbots and cloud services under the DMA.
The Commission is giving interested parties until September 24 to tell the Commission what they think of the regulation.
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