CERRE Report here.
Discussion here.
My Bluesky Thread, for memory.
Keynote
speaker’s message: we should stick to our DMA guns, despite the
Commission’s tricky dual role. And this is what we're seeing (me: 🤞)
1️⃣ DMA complaint received by the Belgian CA and forwarded to the Commission.
NCAs staff seconded to contributing to DMA enforcement - how many are they? Belgium sent one.
Great stressing the complementary role of competition law to the DMA. Can't wait for those GenAI, cloud related cases...
Nobody
from the DMA Team - not too pleased with the (barely passing) report
card? I disagree, of course, but for the record CERRE didn't ask me 🙂
Alex de Streel just said that the DMA Team was invited but too busy at the moment.
DuckDuckGo more of a gatekeeper challenger than a "business user" if I may...
Box ticking type of engagement with Google, not really multilateral consultation, says DuckDuckGo (whybutwhy?)
Evaluation
of the DMA: how to assess/maximize the impact on innovation, proposes
DuckDuckGo [writing a paper on a dynamic, evolutionary assessment of the
DMA - agree with nuances]
Apple
on the panel, striking a notably assertive tone, claiming “hundreds of
engineers” are working on compliance, and yet the Commission, they
suggest, still doesn’t get it.
[Both Apple and DuckDuckGo are CERRE's members, as well as telecom regulators, did anyone mention it?]
Forward looking approach mentioned by Chiara, looking forward to it!
Fantastic,
and the audience didn't even laugh: Apple as the "happy recipient" of
the two specification decisions complained that it was too quick 😂
So: put it on the agenda of the next High Level Group - issues in the cloud sector, as will be explained by BEREC/Arcep
So, we heard that Apple was invited to the High Level Group - more transparency would be much appreciated
DMA
Team from the audience: 1) Art. 7 KPIs are the goal; 2) hearing that
clarity via specification decisions came too fast was, well,
"interesting"
Waiting for the Meta Decision, which is going to improve privacy!
"Epic is a beneficiary of the DMA" - but 4 BIG Fs:
- Fees;
- Friction (15/12 steps, really?);
- Fake security reasons;
- Fear of retaliation.
CCIA:
- DMA might change, uncertainty for businesses!
- Fear of political intervention, bc regulators are understaffed!
I'm going to stop there, the level of astroturfing is almost unprecedented.
[Clearly, Qualcomm and Microsoft didn't want to say anything.]
Dutch CA: great work so far, do we see more innovation? Too early to say...
Also the Dutch CA: competition authorities can actually do a lot, need for coordination of investigative powers.
And, more possibility of involvement by civil society!
[Wondering
whether if Microsoft at some point will mention interoperability by
design ☺️- very vague, subliminal messages so far]
CCIA: look at compliance costs, also by business users, consumers are worse-off - STOP.
Dutch
CA, DMA assessment: Process, output, ok; outcome - increased innovation
- we can't measure it yet. Yep, but if we're serious about innovation,
much to say already (paper coming).
Specifics: totally agree with Epic. Data and its assessment (also with civil society's involvement, he said) is key!
