Can the EU Digital Markets Act achieve its goals?

Renda, Andrea

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Can the EU Digital Markets Act achieve its goals?

dc.contributor.author	Renda, Andrea
dc.contributor.ror	https://ror.org/02jjdwm75
dc.date.accessioned	2024-07-02T16:10:25Z
dc.date.available	2024-07-02T16:10:25Z
dc.date.issued	2022-06-21
dc.description.abstract	Over the past few years, EU and national regulators accelerated their plans to regulate digital platforms. The EU is not alone in this quest, as many other jurisdictions around the world are considering various options for regulatory intervention in digital markets. Rather than being an ‘outlier’ on this issue, Europe has a chance to set new standards in this domain, which other countries may end up emulating. In this context, the proposed EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) represents a major endeavour to tackle the concentration of economic power in the hands of large-scale Tech companies. One of its most significant features is that it marks a transition from the traditional application of ex post antitrust rules, towards an entirely new ex ante regulatory scrutiny, aimed at systematically preventing possible abuses by those platforms that can be defined as gatekeepers of entire digital ecosystems. This paper explores the pros and cons of this shift, and discusses whether the proposed enforcement of the DMA, concentrated in the hands of the European Commission, is likely to prove sufficiently effective. The author assesses whether the DMA, together with other legislative proposals presented by the European Commission over the past few months (Data Governance Act, Data Act, Digital Services Act, Artificial Intelligence Act, etc.) will pave the way for a more economically and socially sustainable digital ecosystem in the years to come.
dc.description.keyword	Digital Markets Act
dc.description.keyword	European Union
dc.description.keyword	Politics
dc.description.keyword	Digital economy
dc.description.keyword	Sustainability
dc.description.keyword	Digital Services Act
dc.description.keyword	Data Governance Act
dc.description.keyword	Digital markets
dc.description.keyword	Ley de Mercados Digitales
dc.description.keyword	Unión Europea
dc.description.keyword	Política
dc.description.keyword	Economía digital
dc.description.keyword	Sostenibilidad
dc.description.keyword	Ley de Servicios Digitales
dc.description.keyword	Ley de Inteligencia Artificial
dc.description.keyword	Ley de Gobierno de Datos
dc.description.keyword	Ley de datos
dc.description.keyword	Mercados digitales
dc.format	application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation	Renda, A. (2022). Can the EU Digital Markets Act achieve its goals?. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6684219
dc.identifier.doi	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6684219
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14417/2856
dc.language.iso	eng
dc.license	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
dc.publisher	IE Center for the Governance of Change
dc.relation.center	IE Center for the Governance of Change
dc.relation.entity	IE University
dc.rights	Attribution 4.0 International
dc.rights.accessRights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.uri	https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode
dc.subject.keyword	Digital Markets Act
dc.subject.keyword	European Union
dc.subject.keyword	Politics
dc.subject.keyword	Digital economy
dc.subject.keyword	Sustainability
dc.subject.keyword	Digital Services Act
dc.subject.keyword	Data Governance Act
dc.subject.keyword	Digital markets
dc.subject.keyword	Ley de Mercados Digitales
dc.subject.keyword	Unión Europea
dc.subject.keyword	Política
dc.subject.keyword	Economía digital
dc.subject.keyword	Sostenibilidad
dc.subject.keyword	Ley de Servicios Digitales
dc.subject.keyword	Ley de Inteligencia Artificial
dc.subject.keyword	Ley de Gobierno de Datos
dc.subject.keyword	Ley de datos
dc.subject.keyword	Mercados digitales
dc.title	Can the EU Digital Markets Act achieve its goals?
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