Winter 2022, October, Volume 1
Antitrust Chronicle® - Cooperation on Digital Competition: Principles and Practice
The advent of ex ante rules to deal with digital platforms – whether we call them “regulation” or “competition” is not so important – poses the inescapable problem of international conflicts of resolution and the demand for international coherence and cooperation. On October 12, 2022, the Digital Markets Act (“DMA”) will be published in the Official Journal of the EU and as of February 2024 (at the earliest), the DMA substantive obligations will be binding on “gatekeepers” designated by the European Commission. Elsewhere, such as in Germany, the UK, and Korea, such rules are already in existence or about to be introduced. The issue of international cooperation has already been posed in the relevant fora (ICN, OECD, etc.).
