BEP calls for robust enforcement of the Digital Markets Act to rein in Big Tech
BEP has urged the European Commission to strengthen the enforcement of its landmark Digital Markets Act (DMA) to ensure it remains effective as digital markets advance. The DMA is the first global regulation designed to curb the dominance of Big Tech and promote fair competition by setting clear rules for digital platforms acting as digital “gatekeepers”.
In its submission to the Commission’s first DMA review, BEP highlights that while the Act has begun to shift market behaviour, by stopping some of the worst anti-competitive practices by Big Tech, enforcement gaps risk undermining its impact. Tech giants dodging meaningful compliance using superficial tweaks, consolidating monopoly power and entrenching their control over the digital economy.
BEP calls on the Commission to:
Extend the DMA to cover generative AI.
Accelerate and clarify enforcement processes.
Demand genuine operational changes and crack down on creative workarounds.
Increase transparency and accountability in reporting and enforcement.
Apply structural remedies for systematic non-compliance.
Responding to claims from Big Tech that the DMA harms user experience, BEP argues that the Act’s purpose is to foster competition and empower consumers - not to protect entrenched monopolies. By loosening Big Tech’s grip on users and markets, the DMA will deliver more choice and innovation in the long term.
Meaningful progress will come faster if tech firms comply with the rules rather than resist them.
