As the evaluation of the Digital Markets Act approaches, a report by King & Spalding highlights procedural shortcomings in the regulation, calling for clarification and greater consideration of business rights to ensure its effectiveness. In the run-up to the triennial review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), scheduled for 2026, the competition law department of US law firm King & Spalding has published, at the request of CCIA Europe, an analysis devoted to the procedural mechanisms of this regulation. The report makes some rather critical observations on the subject, and recommends a number of solutions to remedy the problems raised. Above all, the study stresses that the effectiveness of the DMA depends not only on the substantive obligations imposed on the major platforms, but also on the procedures put in place to interpret and apply them. Those who have been following the…
