The European Commission must soon assess whether the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is delivering contestability and fairness in the digital sector. In the Issue Paper Assessing and Improving the DMA’s Impact, Academic Director Alexandre de Streel, together with...
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The European Commission must soon assess whether the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is delivering contestability and fairness in the digital sector. In the Issue Paper Assessing and Improving the DMA’s Impact, Academic Director Alexandre de Streel, together with Giorgio Monti and Richard Feasey, examine how this evaluation should be conducted and how it should shape enforcement.
Drawing on interviews with gatekeepers and business users, the paper finds that the public evidence base for the evaluation is scant. There is too little robust data on how end users and business users are actually responding to changes gatekeepers have made in response to the DMA, leaving the debate driven more by claims than by evidence.
The paper highlights that compliance and impact are distinct issues. While ensuring compliance remains essential, an evaluation of the DMA’s impacts must proceed in parallel, to help inform implementation and enforcement.
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