The European Commission has launched a review of its digital competition rules for Big Tech and is seeking views on how the regulation has worked to date and whether it needs to be reformed.
The Digital Markets Act fully came into effect in the Spring of 2024 and includes a list of do’s and don’ts for the six Big Tech companies that fall under its scope: Meta, Google, Alphabet, Apple, ByteDance and Amazon.
The law, which is intended to ensure competition within a tech sector dominated by global giants, has become heavily politicized in recent months, with the U.S. administration accusing the EU of unfairly targeting American companies and classing it as a non-tariff trade barrier in U.S. President Donald Trump’s trade war.