Jeremie Jourdan: Analysing the Digital Services Act through the Lences of Competition Law & the DMA

Описание: It is a pleasure to record a substantive conversation with Jérémie Jourdan, a partner at Geradin Partners. We covered a wide range of issues related to the DMA & DSA: from the latest developments to the very rationale and interaction of both regimes. In particular, the following topics were addressed:
03:03 Quick history of the DSA for the DMA-oriented audience
03:55 DSA as a two-tier system
05:08 How many and what types of VLOPs/VLOSEs are designated
06:20 How many non-compliance investigations are opened and what are the addressees
07:45 The Commission is quite busy with adopting delegated acts
08:44 First cases in the CJEU
09:34 Enforcement of the DSA by Member States
10:40 Private enforcement
12:25 The areas where the Commission have exclusivity
14:50 Some obligations are clear, others are open-textured. There is a reason for it
16:50 Which national authority alleged non-compliance can investigate and what does it mean for other national authorities?
18:45 Digital services coordinators: competences; how many per Member State etc
21:50 Main focus of the Commission in enforcing the DSA
25:35 The DSA qua Online Safety Act
26:30 DMA & DSA: different but complementary?
27:40 Contradictory requirements under the DMA & DSA
29:56 Not complying with the DMA using the DSA (GDPR) as an excuse
32:12 Which of the DSA obligations are most ‘popular’ in the first years?
38:20 Obligations related to (choice in) recommender systems
40:22 Commitments in the DSA (and the DMA)
43:57 Do business users know the secrets of how to make designated entities to comply?
46:45 Analysing first Digital Services Coordinators’ annual reports
49:07 Trusted flaggers: the rationale of the mechanism and some current statistics
53:05 The one-stop-shop (bottleneck) problem of DSA/GDPR enforcement
55:03 Private enforcement of the DSA: most noticeable cases
55;51 The role of judges in adjudicating hard cases
01:00:55 The main plans for the first half of 2026
01:03:44 Interim measures: pros and cons
01:07:10 Recommendations to students

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The Digital Markets Research Hub is an independent academic initiative aiming at scrutinising the functioning of competition/regulation in digital markets. We host one-to-one interviews with leading policymakers, regulators and practitioners. We also organise online mini-workshops inviting high-profile experts and academics in various fields of digital competition law & policy to discuss the most vibrant issues of the ongoing regulatory reforms in digital markets. While having our clear normative stand on the matters discussed within the hub, we value different views and invite relevant stakeholders and thinkers representing the whole spectrum of reasonable positions on how to regulate competition in digital markets. Our purpose is not to convey a message, but to contribute to the discussion; the main criterion for selecting invitees is the easy-going way they share their expertise. All our materials are available at YouTube channel, which you are very welcome to subscribe to. This interview is organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk, School of Law, University of Exeter.