Damien Geradin: Digital Markets Act, Compliance Reports & Gatekeepers Strategies, Goals of the DMA

This week marks an important milestone of the new EU pro-competition regime for regulating competition in digital markets. 7 March s the deadline for the Commission to receive compliance reports by all designated gatekeepers. After receiving the reports the Commission - and after accessing their non-confidential summaries the broader digital competition community - will be able to make some preliminary conclusions about the seriousness with which each of the gatekeepers treats their effective compliance duty.
Damien Geradin belongs to a small cohort of competition lawyers combining their top professional competence in purely juristic aspects of the field with nuanced understanding the technicalities of digital markets - both from commercial business model and purely technical data science perspectives. Being also very collegial and easy-going speaker, it is a great opportunity to learn what he thinks (and does) within EU DMA and UK DMCC regimes.
We have covered many issues including the following:
- is he overall happy with the legal material of the DMA - the rules which we will be working with in the next years?
- main shortcomings of the DMA
- can the Commission DMA team enforce the entire catalogue of gatekeeper obligations act the same time?
- which of the core platform services and which of the obligations of Arts 5-7 appear to be the most important and worth being prioritised first?
- compliance reports: the form & the substance
- non-confidential summaries of the reports
- the rationale of the anti-circumvention provision
- what is his specific reading of apparently open-ended scope of fairness and contestability goals of the DMA?
- the substance of the digital advertising supply chain: can the machinery of programmatic advertising be changed/replicated?
- how different gatekeepers treat their duty to comply
- cloud computing: what is at stake
- FRAND obligations of the DMA or final offer mechanism of the DMCC
- taking active part in both EU DMA and UK DMCC discussions, what is Damien’s impressions about the roles of third parties and stakeholders in the legislative process; what are the factual differences between the EU and UK legislative processes
- similarities and differences in university systems and academic life in EU & UK
- recommendations to students
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The interview is organised & conducted by Prof. Oles Andriychuk, Newcastle Law School, UK

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Great conversation! He seems like a grounded person. Nuanced and thoughtful questions as always Oles.

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