The European Commission designates six gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act
- September 6, 2023
- 2:19 pm
The European Commission has designated on 6th September, for the first time, six gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft – under the Digital Markets Act (DMA). In total, 22 core platform services provided by gatekeepers have been designated. The six gatekeepers will now have six months to ensure full compliance with the DMA obligations for each of their designated core platform services.
In parallel, the Commission has opened four market investigations to further assess Microsoft’s and Apple’s submissions arguing that, despite meeting the thresholds, some of their core platform services do not qualify as gateways:
- Microsoft: Bing, Edge and Microsoft Advertising
- Apple: iMessage
More information available from the European Commission press release.
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