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? […]
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 […]
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Report, and the work for the CMA´s Digital Markets Unit now begins (and they are not sitting still, looking at the draft guidance that was issued […]
A Report from the Courtroom: Amazon’s paramount significance for competition across markets confirmed in Germany
While most of us would have a clear intuition how to respond to the question whether the e-commerce giant Amazon has a paramount significance across markets, Amazon appealed the German Bundeskartellamt’s designation decision under Sec. 19a (1) GWB. The trial entered a second round of hearings on 23 April 2024 resulting in a dismissal of […]
A Week of Workshops: Observations from the DMA Compliance Workshops
The workshops: informative, transformative (and performative?) What a week and what a kickstart for the DMA! We listened to six DMA Compliance workshops, where the designated gatekeepers discussed the changes that they have made to their core platform services, answered questions, and received comments from a wide range of stakeholders. After 5 of them, quasi […]
Compliance time! Categorizing Risks of Compliance Failures in the DMA
It’s compliance time! On the 7th of March, the first designated gatekeepers had to start complying with the substantive provisions of the DMA. The European Commission’s anticipation of this moment was characterised by their official DMA countdown clock. Around the time the clock ran out, the gatekeepers published the non-confidential summaries of their compliance reports. […]
Welcome to the SCiDA Project!
What is the SCiDA Project? Welcome to the SCiDA blog! On March 1st 2024, we have kicked off our project “Shaping Competition in the Digital Age”. In this project, we study the implementation and early enforcement of three new regulatory initiatives: the Digital Markets Act at the EU level, the Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers […]