Across the world, regulators and policy makers are grappling with how to establish a competitive, safe and fair online environment that also safeguards users’ fundamental rights as citizens. Ahead of the European Commission’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), this book “Digital markets and online...

The European Union is increasing the number of laws which apply to the providers of digital services, in particular to digital platforms, and each of them are based on a specific oversight and enforcement framework. As many of those new laws overlap, it is key for the effectiveness of oversight...

Economic thinking and analysis lie at the heart of the objectives and the design of the EU Digital Markets Act. However, the design of the DMA reflects a very deliberate—and reasonable—intention to ensure clarity, speed, administrability, and enforceability. In doing so, this pro-competitive...

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...

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) entered into force on 1 November 2022 and its rules will apply from 2 May 2023. The Commission should designate, for the first time, the gatekeepers subjected to the rules by September 2023 at the latest, and those platforms should comply with prohibitions and...

The European Commission is charged with implementing the Digital Markets Act (DMA) which will impose a list of 22 do and don't to Big Tech platforms in March 2024. Based on economic and legal reasoning, this paper asks how the Commission can fulfil this challenging task effectively. The paper...

This book chapter, written for the Research Handbook on EU media law and policy, summarises the EU regulation of telecommunications networks and services. It explains the main parts of the new regulatory framework established the European Electronic Communications Code, which is applicable since...

The current European regulation for electronic communications has been applicable since 2003 and is currently under a review that should lead to new rules applicable by 2010. This paper aims to assess the implementation of the current regulation and the proposals for reform tabled by the...

Dans ce Working Paper, le CERPE analyse les perspectives budgétaires de la Région wallonne pour la période 2011-2021. Trois autres working papers du CERPE analysent les perspectives budgétaires de la Communauté franaise, de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Commission communautaire...

Dans ce Working Paper, le CERPE analyse les perspectives budgétaires de la Communauté franaise pour la période 2009-2019. Trois autres working papers du CERPE analysent les perspectives budgétaires de la Région wallonne, de la Région de Bruxelles-Capitale et de la Commission communautaire...