In a letter sent on 11 April to the Vice-President of the European Commission, Margrethe Vestager, MEP Andreas Schwab (EPP, German) stresses the need to put in place genuine testing principles for platforms subject to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).
Unlike the Digital Services Act (DSA), the DMA does not require gatekeepers to transmit certain crucial information, which the MEP deplores, believing that this does not help the Commission to ensure that obliged parties comply.
“[...] in assessing compliance with the no self-referencing obligation of Article 6(5), it is not sufficient to assess the parameters that are traditionally analysed but it seems equally necessary to include others: precise information about performance, including the number of units sold, clicks generated, and downloads or purchases made”, explains the MEP.
Stressing the EU’s “limited resources” to ensure effective enforcement of the law, Andreas Schwab called on the Commission to consider new testing principles, specific to each obligation imposed on platforms.
In an effort to ensure that the legislation is sustainable over the long term, the German MEP is also calling on the Commission to “publicly share the data received under investigation”, as widely as possible.
See the letter: https://aeur.eu/f/brh (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)