The Digital Markets Act

The Digital Markets Act ("DMA") is primarily concerned with controlling the conduct of sizable online platforms that serve as "gatekeepers" to the digital markets. Platforms with great market power—known as gatekeepers—can control market access and have a significant impact on the decisions made by customers and other businesses. To promote fair and unhindered competition, the DMA provides a set of requirements and restrictions for such gatekeepers.

Platforms known as gatekeepers exercise enormous market power and serve as crucial go-betweens for businesses and customers in important digital services. DMA focuses particularly for regulating the behavior of these gatekeepers because of their systemic role in the internal market, even though there may be overlap with the types of services covered by the the Digital Services Act ("DSA") which focuses on online platforms.