According to the European Union Commission, Apple will have to pay a fine of 500 million euros as it violates the Digital Markets Act (DMA). This process has been going on since last year, then, according to its own statements, the European Union Commission has given several clear indications of how the company had to adjust its services to become DMA compatible. The sentence announced today was mainly about the app store and the fact that the company obstructed the third -perti stores – and thus other developers.
Meta should pay 200 million euros. This is about the so-called pay-or-concent model: Meta requires users in the European Union if it rejects their behavior analysis and adds this behavior to platforms. The European Union Commission announced a meta in July 2024 that it had seen DMA violations in the design. Meta improved last November, these are currently being investigated by the European Union Commission, regardless of DMA fine today.
European Union Commission Deputy Chairman Henna Virkunas emphasized that the purpose of DMA is to protect the market for consumers and companies. Says Finn, “In the decisions received today, it has been determined that both Apple and Meta have taken this free option for their users and change their behavior,” Fin says, which are responsible for digital things since autumn 2024. The European Union Commission has the responsibility of protecting citizens and companies in Europe.
Transatlantic political issue
On the other hand, the meta is wrongly punished. “The European Commission is trying to obstruct successful American companies as it allows Chinese and European companies to work according to various standards,” a statement said. It is a type of billion dollars customs, the Commission is forcing Meta to change its own business model – towards a inferior service. “And due to the unjust range of individual advertising, the European Commission also damages European companies and economies,” Meta writes.
The DMA has recently been in the focus of transatlantic debates on the part of the US administration under Donald Trump, the European Union has been repeatedly expressed to not harass American companies. In some parts of administration, it is considered the idea that the European Union regulation and as a result will represent obstacles such as customs for punishment trade. Meta is now clearly involved in it.
So far, however, no concrete derivative to deal with the punishment of the European Union has been done after a memorandum of the February US President, with which he directed his officials for the exam. Some American companies also emphasized that the European Union addresses the problem of digital market as a competition law and hence uses them to implement their interests towards the greatest actors.
However, Meta is currently the focus of the Supervisory Authority Federal Trade Commission as part of a competition process. Unlike the FTC process, the European Digital Markets Act is not about potential breakups or loans of corporations. Google monopoly is also interacted in the USA.
DMA is a powerful competition law
Unlike the Digital Services Act, the Digital Markets Act is part of the Competition law, with which the Digital Markets Act is mainly related to the operators, with which the dangerous monopoly status and the misuse of power are to be stopped by major actors for the free market. With DMA, specific competitive conditions in digital space should be taken into consideration, where data access and interoperability play a major role.
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Above these, in the case of Apple, the So -Called vertical integration of the business model, where everything comes from the data deposited from the hardware check, from the final device to the operating system, from the app store, was a reason for DMA. As a supervisory authority, the European Union Commission, as the Supervisory Authority, enables the punishment to implement the global annual business up to 10 percent. Secondly, the Commission can also order solid implementation measures, for example, so that the use of third -petty stores or hardware functions in iOS is not interrupted by third party.
Against the decision of the European Union Commission, the concerned companies may move forward in European jurisdiction in Luxembourg. In the past, other competition law punishment was partially collected by the European Court by the Justice Court.
(EMW)
