This July, Japan regulated the most impactful piece of consumer electronics since the invention of the computer (or for some, since the lightbulb): the smartphone. Japan‘s new laser focused regulation tackles competitive issues related to mobile OS, browsers, app stores and search engines. So, is this Act a new marvel of Japanese inventiveness, the Japanese […]
Winners & losers: Game, set and match in Google Shopping?
Last week was the official conclusion to the Google Shopping Saga. The Court of Justice ruled that self-preferencing is indeed a stand-alone abuse by validating the theory of harm put forward by the Commission. With the ruling against Ireland in their long-running Apple state aid tax case, the week was a shining conclusion of Margrethe […]
Breaking the Summer Break – Digital platform developments you might have missed and should look out for in the second half of 2024
After a thunderstorm of DMA enforcement actions in the first half of 2024, climaxing with the latest preliminary findings send to Apple and Meta mid-June and early July, things seemed to have become a bit quieter around the Commission and its gatekeepers during the summer weeks. But silence can be deceptive – find out here […]
SCiDA Summer Review: A Year of Digital Markets Act
A year of DMA: Since the first notifications of gatekeepers, one year has passed, and it‘s time – not only for the first judgement of the EU General Court on a designation appeal – but for a review of the many events since the start of DMA enforcement. What happened? How does the Commission fare? […]
ECN DMA Conference Debrief Addendum by Vicky Robertson – App stores – Changing business models as roadblocks for DMA implementation?
As our first SCiDA guest contribution and insightful addition to our ECN DMA Conference Debrief, Vicky Robertson, Professor for competition law at WU Vienna, Director of The Competition Law Hub and moderator of the panel discussion on app stores during the ECN DMA workshop shares her insights from the breakout session. An in-depth report of […]
Conference Debrief – Highlights from the ECN DMA Workshop
The ECN DMA conference, hosted in Amsterdam on the 24th of June was, if we may, DMA-zing. Fiona Scott Morton & Martijn Snoep were not wrong to start the conference by saying that innovation happens here. Not just through the DMA’s potential to unleash business users innovative talent, but also through this new way of […]
SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN DMA – Mozilla, the Internet Economy Foundation and Vanessa Turner (BEUC) on the present and future of the DMA
Interview with Kush Amlani – Mozilla This episode we interview Kush Amlani, Global Competition & Regulatory Counsel at Mozilla. Mozilla is a non-profit backed technology organisation, known for the flagship Firefox browser. Mozilla is also recognised for its advocacy campaigns that champion privacy, human dignity, and an open internet. LISTEN HERE: SCiDA Podcast #4 – Kush […]
Introducing the SCiDA Podcast – Towards the ECN-DMA Workshop series.
For those of you who want to listen to digital platform regulation issues while being on the go – We are launching the SCiDA Podcast! In the coming weeks, we conduct interviews with stakeholders about their views on the DMA and national digital platform regulation, their experiences in the DMA compliance workshops, how they see […]
Pay not OK? ‘Pay-or-consent models’ – where the GDPR, DMA and DSA meet
The news that Facebook and Instagram could become paid services sent shockwaves throughout the masses of influencers and other social media enthusiasts. Would they really have to pay a monthly fee starting at 12 euros for their daily fix of reels, posts and pictures? Fortunately for Europe’s young and trendy, the subscription model is not […]
The DMCCA is here! Insights from Lord Timothy Clement-Jones
The Digital Markets, Competition & Consumers Act has passed Royal Assent on the 24th of May 2024. It has been a long way here since the revolutionary 2016 Furman Report, and the work for the CMA´s Digital Markets Unit now begins (and they are not sitting still, looking at the draft guidance that was issued […]