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The Digital Markets Act: ensuring fair and open digital markets [1]
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Date: 2024-06
Gatekeepers are large digital platforms providing any of a pre-defined set of digital services (‘core platform services’), such as online search engines, app stores, and messenger services. These companies have:
a strong economic position, significant impact on the internal market and are active in multiple EU countries;
a strong intermediation position, meaning that they link a large user base to a large number of businesses;
an entrenched and durable position in the market, meaning that their position has been stable over time.
On 6 September 2023 the European Commission designated for the first time six gatekeepers - Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft. In total, 22 core platform services provided by those gatekeepers have been designated.
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[1] Url:
https://commission.europa.eu/strategy-and-policy/priorities-2019-2024/europe-fit-digital-age/digital-markets-act-ensuring-fair-and-open-digital-markets_en
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