2024 is coming to an end and what a year for Shaping Competition in the Digital Age! The DMA picked up steam with record pace, we have a new EU Commissioner for competition and a new law in the UK (DMCCA) – to name only a few developments of a packed year. 2024 has proven […]
Big Tech through the lenses of Brazil’s competition watchdog CADE and the path ahead
The so-called Brussels Effect has reached Brazil. The Draft Brazilian Digital Markets Bill, which foresees not only regulatory oversight of Big Tech platforms by the Brazilian National Telecommunications Agency but also its funding by Big Tech itself (!), is still pending since November 2022. A new government report recommends adding new rules under the existing […]
The idealo-founder speaks: Google Shopping, the DMA, and the future of the Internet – Interview with Albrecht von Sonntag
The aftershocks of the European Court of Justice’s Google Shopping judgement were still noticeable over the last couple of weeks. Unsurprising given the decade-long run up and built-up suspense to the judgement. There could be no better time to interview Albrecht von Sonntag, internet pioneer and co-founder of the Berlin-based online price comparison platform idealo […]
Japan’s Enactment of the Smartphone Act
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]