{"id":8213,"date":"2024-11-20T08:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-11-20T07:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bannister.be\/?p=8213"},"modified":"2025-07-15T16:34:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:34:08","slug":"digital-markets-act-een-europees-regelgevend-kader-op-maat-van-het-digitale-tijdperk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/digital-markets-act-een-europees-regelgevend-kader-op-maat-van-het-digitale-tijdperk","title":{"rendered":"Digital Markets Act: a European regulatory framework tailored to the digital age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/1620x1080_Bannister_Digital-1.jpg 1620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<h2>Digital Markets Act: a European regulatory framework tailored to the digital age.<\/h2>\n<p>On 1 November 2022, the Digital Markets Act (Regulation 2022\/1925) (DMA) came into force.<\/p>\n<p>Together with the Digital Services Act, the DMA is part of a European digital services package to provide a <strong>Fair, secure and responsible European digital market<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation provides additional rules specifically aimed at promoting a good digital economy in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>Although the DMA already came into force, it will only become applicable from 2 May 2023.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Objective<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The DMA aims to address problems with large online platforms. In this way, it seeks to make the business environment fairer for companies dependent on these platforms.<\/p>\n<p>The regulation seeks to provide a regulatory framework within which innovative and start-up (technology) companies can compete and innovate without being bound by unfair conditions that limit their further development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Scope<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The DMA applies to so-called \"gatekeepers\" or \"gatekeepers\". To determine whether an internet giant qualifies as a gatekeeper, the DMA provides objective criteria.<\/p>\n<p>A platform are identified as <strong>gatekeeper<\/strong> when:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A platform has a strong economic position with a significant impact on the internal market and operates in several EU member states;<\/li>\n<li>Acts as an intermediary between companies and consumers for certain digital services (think search engines, social media, operating systems,...)<\/li>\n<li>And the platform has had a sustainable position in the market for a long time. This is the case when it met the above criteria for three consecutive financial years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>N<strong>new rules and prohibitions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In practice, this means that gatekeepers will be subject to a number of obligations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Offer companies access to the data they generate even on the platform;<\/li>\n<li>Provide advertisers with the necessary tools to analyse their ads;<\/li>\n<li>Allowing third parties to collaborate with the gatekeeper's own services in specific situations;<\/li>\n<li>Allow companies to promote their offerings on the platform and contract with customers outside the platform.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The prohibitions imposed on gatekeepers include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Rank own products higher or treat them more favourably than similar third-party products;<\/li>\n<li>Banning consumers from contacting businesses outside the platform;<\/li>\n<li>Tracking end users outside the gatekeeper's platform for the purpose of targeted advertising, without consent.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Sanction for breach<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The European Commission can impose fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover. Fines can reach 20% when gatekeepers commit repeated infringements. The European Commission can also impose periodic financial penalties of up to 5% of average daily turnover.<\/p>\n<p>Additional non-financial measures can also be imposed, such as forcing the gatekeeper to change behaviour or change company structure.<\/p>\n<p>Questions about the Digital Markets Acts or about digital economy? Contact our specialists at <a>info@bannister.be<\/a> or 03\/369.28.00<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital Markets Act: een Europees regelgevend kader op maat van het digitale tijdperk. Op 1 november 2022 trad de Digital Markets Act (Verordening 2022\/1925) (DMA) in werking. Samen met de Digital Services Act, maakt de DMA deel uit van een Europees pakket digitale diensten om te voorzien in een eerlijke, veilige en verantwoordelijke Europese digitale [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11757,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alles","category-bouwrecht"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8213"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14557,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8213\/revisions\/14557"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bedrijfsadvocaat.be\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}