2024-01-16 13:00:00
Schibsted, Allegro and more than 20 other European small businesses and industry groups on Tuesday urged Big Tech to seek their advice on how it plans to comply with new EU rules aimed at boosting competition before the EU deadline. March.
As part of its latest crackdown on big tech companies, the European Union said last September that 22 “gatekeeper” services, run by six of the world’s biggest tech companies, would be subject to the law on Digital Markets (DMA) and its list of do’s and don’ts.
The Digital Markets Act requires these gatekeepers – Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok owner ByteDance – to operate their messaging apps in conjunction with their competitors and allow users to choose which apps they pre-install on their devices, among others.
Businesses have until March 6 to comply with the new rules. In a joint open letter, Sweden’s Schibsted Group, Poland’s Allegro and 22 other companies said efforts so far did not appear to be enough.
“Gatekeepers have failed to engage with third parties or presented solutions that are not compliant with the DMA. Businesses and consumers are largely kept in the dark about what will happen after March 7 2024,” they said.
According to them, Big Tech should “engage as soon as possible in constructive dialogue with business users and other stakeholders, such as business and consumer associations, and move quickly on the compliance solutions they offer” .
Other signatories to the letter include German company Idealo, French technology companies Qwant and Le Guide, and British companies Kelkoo, Proton and Vipps MobilePay.
The call from companies and nine industry groups, including News Media Europe, the Coalition for App Fairness, EU Tech Travel and the European Publishers Council, echoes similar calls made recently by European Commission officials. (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee)
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