The EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) : a competition hand in a regulatory glove

dc.contributor.authorMORENO BELLOSO, Natalia
dc.contributor.authorPETIT, Nicolas
dc.date.accessioned2024-01-25T15:56:36Z
dc.date.available2024-01-25T15:56:36Z
dc.date.embargo2024-08-31en
dc.date.issued2023
dc.descriptionPublished: August 2023en
dc.descriptionThis is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in European law review following peer review. The definitive published version is available online on Westlaw UK.en
dc.description.abstractThe newly enacted Digital Markets Act (DMA) finds itself at a crossroads. The DMA can develop into a specialist field of competition law for digital platforms or it can evolve into a new field of EU law, detached from competition law. The DMA’s ultimate trajectory will depend on the legal characterisation given to the DMA. Is it a special competition law regime or an original instrument distinct from competition law? This article lays the groundwork for characterising the DMA by offering a complete descriptive analysis of the instrument. Among the elements discussed are the twin concepts of "gatekeepers" and "core platform services", which together condition the DMA’s scope of application, as well as the legal obligations imposed on gatekeepers. The article proposes a novel categorisation of the obligations, showing that each obligation can be associated with at least one of two conventional competition law concerns (exclusion or exploitation). The discussion shows the difficulty of pinpointing the exact nature of the DMA. We argue that this ambiguity creates challenges for the practical implementation of the DMA.en
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dc.identifier.citationEuropean law review, 2023, Vol. 48, No. 4, pp. 391-421en
dc.identifier.endpage421en
dc.identifier.issn0307-5400
dc.identifier.issue4en
dc.identifier.startpage391en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1814/76380
dc.identifier.volume48en
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dc.publisherSweet & Maxwellen
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dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen
dc.titleThe EU Digital Markets Act (DMA) : a competition hand in a regulatory gloveen
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