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\n In a letter seen by Euronews and sent to the US Congress, Vice-presidents Teresa Ribera and Henna Virkkunen defend EU digital legislation, which they claim applies to companies regardless of where they are located. It comes a day after MEPs also wrote to US authorities justifying DMA\u2019s enforcement.
\n ADVERTISEMENTVice-Presidents Teresa Ribera and Henna Virkkunen have insisted that the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) does not target US companies and applies agnostically to digital platforms designated under its rules as \u201cgatekeepers\u201d, in a letter responding to questions from the US Congress seen by Euronews.\u00a0\u201cThe criteria for gatekeeper designation are based on objectively identified and transparent quantitative thresholds. They do not allow the Commission to discriminate against any company based on the location of its headquarters,\u201d the two Commissioners wrote in the letter,\u00a0sent on Thursday,\u00a0adding: \u201cThis is confirmed by the fact that two of the gatekeepers which have so far been designated under the DMA are headquartered in the European Union and in China respectively.\u201dIn 2023 and 2024, the Commission identified seven gatekeepers under the Digital Markets Act: \u00a0American platforms Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft; Chinese ByteDance; and Dutch Booking.com.The DMA has been the subject of several attacks since Donald Trump came to power in the US, the latest coming from the US Congress where two representatives, Jim Jordan and Scott Fitzgerald,\u00a0sent a letter questioning\u00a0\u00a0European digital legislation, claiming the DMA targets US compagnies and calling\u00a0on Teresa Ribera, the EU competition\u00a0commissioner, to justify the statute.\u00a0\u201cWe write to express our concerns that the DMA may target American companies,\u201d the two representatives wrote on 23 February, adding that fines\u00a0levied under\u00a0EU legislation\u00a0were tantamount to\u00a0European taxes. They also claimed the DMA with hinders innovation: \u201cCertain innovative products and services offered by American companies will not be released in the EU or are being restricted because of the DMA and other European laws and regulations.\u201d\u201cThe DMA keeps the door open to the next wave of innovation in vital digital markets,” Ribera and Virkkunen replied\u00a0to the Congressmen,\u00a0adding: “It allows companies to become more independent from large digital platforms in terms of distribution of their products and services and to develop innovative business models. It also provides more choices for consumers.\u201dThe DMA was originally designed to combat the domination\u00a0of few tech giants on digital markets.\u00a0\u201cOnly in cases in which a gatekeepers fail to comply \u00a0with the obligation under the DMA despite engaging in a regulatory dialogue, enforcement by way of sanctions may become necessary,\u201d the letter\u00a0continued, adding \u201cthe objective of DMA enforcement, as any other piece of EU law is to ensure compliance \u2013 not to issue fines.\u201dThe Commission has launched a number of investigations under the DMA, the results of which should be known in the coming weeks. The American companies\u00a0under the lens\u00a0include Apple, Alphabet and Meta.On Wednesday MEPs led by St\u00e9phanie Yon-Courtin (France\/Renew), Andreas Schwab (Germany\/EPP) and Anna Cavazzini (Germany\/Greens)\u00a0wrote to US Attorney-General Pamela Bondi and US Secretary of Commerce Howard Lutnick\u00a0defending the application of the DMA, in another letter seen by Euronews.\u201cMany American companies are not only benefiting from the DMA but are also actively calling for its enforcement,\u201d\u00a0they wrote, citing \u201cEpic Games which is launching an alternative app store to Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s in the EU, and Meta, which seeks interoperability with Apple to develop new products, stand to gain from these new rules.\u201d The letter claimed that Netflix, Disney and other streaming companies, \u201ccurrently burdened by Apple\u2019s and Google\u2019s high app store fees, would also benefit from a fairer competitive landscape under the DMA\u2014just like Google in the cloud computing sector or DuckDuckGo in online search.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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