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Over the past couple of decades, Big Tech companies have increasingly limited competition in digital markets at the expense of consumers, restricting choice and access to innovation. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is an attempt to make digital markets fairer and more open to challenger companies.
Is the Digital Markets Act effective? In July 2025, the European Commission opened a consultation to gather feedback on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its ability to face emerging challenges such as new technologies. Our review shared with the Commission and summarized in our new report offers a snapshot of how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is performing eighteen months in.
So, what are the benefits of the DMA for consumers? Our new report shows the first concrete benefits the DMA has delivered for consumers eighteen months into its application, which include:
1) A choice screen to select your preferred default browser on iOS devices.
2) Choice over the app you want to use by default on iOS devices across a wide variety of categories.
3) The ability to make contactless payments on iPhones without going through Apple Pay.
4) The ability to create a Google account without requiring a Gmail account.
The report also outlines the ongoing areas of suspected non-compliance under the DMA by gatekeepers that the European Commission must tackle, how BEUC is pushing for effective compliance by the gatekeepers, and an assessment of how to take the DMA's enforcement to the next level and boost the benefits for consumers.
Is the Digital Markets Act effective? In July 2025, the European Commission opened a consultation to gather feedback on the impact and effectiveness of the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and its ability to face emerging challenges such as new technologies. Our review shared with the Commission and summarized in our new report offers a snapshot of how the Digital Markets Act (DMA) is performing eighteen months in.
So, what are the benefits of the DMA for consumers? Our new report shows the first concrete benefits the DMA has delivered for consumers eighteen months into its application, which include:
1) A choice screen to select your preferred default browser on iOS devices.
2) Choice over the app you want to use by default on iOS devices across a wide variety of categories.
3) The ability to make contactless payments on iPhones without going through Apple Pay.
4) The ability to create a Google account without requiring a Gmail account.
The report also outlines the ongoing areas of suspected non-compliance under the DMA by gatekeepers that the European Commission must tackle, how BEUC is pushing for effective compliance by the gatekeepers, and an assessment of how to take the DMA's enforcement to the next level and boost the benefits for consumers.
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The European Commission today presented its Water Resilience Strategy, the aim of which is environmental protection, competitiveness and to secure clean and affordable water and sanitation for all at all times, and empowering citizens for water resilience. BEUC very much welcomes this action plan as much bolder action is needed to restore and protect the water cycle, to eliminate harmful chemicals, make agricultural practices more sustainable and invest substantially in the EU’s water infrastructure.
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Today’s decisions by the European Commission against Apple and Meta for non-compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA) are good news for consumers to enjoy more of the potential benefits of this crucial law since it entered into application a year ago.
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The European Consumer Organisation BEUC, defending the interests of consumers in 31 European countries, welcomes the European Commission’s 19 March 2025 decisions detailing Apple’s legally binding interoperability obligations and its preliminary findings that Alphabet (Google) is breaching the Digital Markets Act.
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The European Commission announced wide-reaching plans today to help make consumers’ energy bills more affordable. The plans are part of the EU’s Clean Industrial Deal and were announced together with a significant scaling back of green finance rules as part of efforts to boost Europe’s competitiveness.
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The European Consumer Organisation (BEUC) regrets the announcements made by the US Administration on February 21 to investigate and threaten trade retaliation for European legislation that safeguards European consumers and ensures the openness and contestability of its digital markets.
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The EU Commission is publishing today its economic vision for the next five years - dubbed the ‘Competitiveness Compass’ - to help the European Union regain its competitiveness worldwide. BEUC, The European Consumer Organisation, calls on the EU to ensure that European industry delivers safe, sustainable and affordable products to consumers, which will allow the European economy to fill the growth gap with powers like the United States and China.