A Compass on the Journey to Successful DMA Implementation

The European Union has just adopted a very important new law – the Digital Markets Act - which will regulate the conducts of the Big Tech platforms in order to increase contestability and fairness of the digital markets, and ultimately increase innovation and choice for European users. As always with a new law, some provisions will need to be interpreted by the regulators and the Courts. This short note provides a “compass” to apply the Digital Markets Act and suggests that the new regulation is not a public utility law but a light-handed pro-competitive law