MEP Andreas Schwab: Conversation on the Digital Markets Act and EU Digital Competition Policy | DMA

Описание: Andreas Schwab is one of the main architects of EU regulatory reforms in the area of digital markets. He was the Chief Rapporteur on the DMA at the European Parliament,. While focusing in this conversation on the Digital Markets Act, we explored also the history of the issue, discussed the future perspectives, looked at the co-relation of the DMA with other legislative initiatives in the area of the digital economy and overviewed the ways of how the European Parliament intends to monitor the performance of the DMA. Hope colleagues interested in these problems will find the conversation as useful and inspiring as it was useful and inspiring for us.

00:00 Introduction
00:10 Intellectual background of DMA: Ordoliberalism and the choice
03:10 How good the final version of the DMA is in comparison with the initial proposal
05:05 The place of the DMA in the broader EU digital agenda (is there one Master Mind?)
07:00 On fragmentation of enforcement and fragmentation of objectives
09:50 In politics you never know where the decision-making process would lead us.
10:25 Correlation of the DMA & GDPR (the latter was originally envisaged as an asymmetric regulation targeting mainly the largest companies)
13:00 DMA: single or multiple enforcer? Which model works better?
13:45 DMA and private enforcement
15:10 Delicate balances of obligations. We shouldn't overshoot the mark with adding more obligations beyond DMA.
17:40 Private enforcement of the DMA and the leniency effect
19:50 Private enforcement: limited and mainly after the Commission specifies the theory of harm. Its role will be limited. Often regulators alone are behind.
21:05 DMA: effectiveness vs proportionality dilemma
23:20 Companies rule-makers and companies rule-takers
25:00 Is there risk for the weakest part of the law being misused?
26:10 European Parliament Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection DMA Working Group.
28:10 Composition of the Working Group
29:40 Relationship with the Trade and Technology Council

31:35 Recommendations for students

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