Parliament gives its green light to begin negotiations with member states on rules setting out what big online platforms will be allowed to do and not do in the EU. The Digital Markets Act (DMA) proposal blacklists certain practices used by large platforms acting as “gatekeepers” and enables the Commission to carry out market investigations and sanction non-compliant behaviours.

Strasbourg

plenary session

ZORRINHO, Carlos (S&D, PT)

SCHWAB, Andreas (EPP, DE)

VESTAGER, Margrethe (DK, CE)

SCHIRDEWAN, Martin (The Left, DE)

KOLAJA, Marcel (Greens/EFA, CZ)

YON-COURTIN, Stéphanie (Renew, FR)

BRETON, Thierry (FR, EC)

digital services act (T)

Digital Markets Act (DMA) - Extracts from the debate, results of the vote

Title: Digital Markets Act (DMA) - Extracts from the debate, results of the vote

SOUNDBITE (German), Andreas SCHWAB (EPP, DE), Rapporteur, In the future, the European Commission will no longer run behind Big Tech companies and the Commission will be able to give the green light in advance when Big Tech companies want to set up new business models. We are focusing on bigger ones and we are going to allow the small ones to continue exercising. We want to protect and we want citizens to be able to benefit from the evolution of technology. We will also ensure that killer acquisitions are controlled in the future. We don't want big companies buying the market for themselves. We want big companies to conquer the market with their good ideas.

SOUNDBITE (French), St&#233;phanie YON-COURTIN (Renew, FR), Vice-Chair of ECON Committee, We're going to establish the rules right from the outset. We won't have to fight for years against armies of lawyers. So the innovative ability of our continent isn't whittled down to five companies. IT knowledge isn't the monopoly of a few private companies. We have startups. They can have other objectives, too, if they don't want to be bought over by five American companies. So faced with these data ogres, let's reorganize our resources. Let's think of a way of using our data, and let's show the example to the other countries in the world. Let's remain digital pioneers.

SOUNDBITE (Portuguese), Carlos ZORRINHO (S&amp;D, PT), We are able to safeguard the role of businesses and create a regulatory framework that will be equal for all will be to the benefit of consumers. And that's what's important here. Interoperability is also important, as well as access to data to allow proper communication. That's what inspired our work and helped us to work together under Article 7 7 +.

SOUNDBITE (English), Margrethe VESTAGER, Executive Vice-President of the EC in charge of Europe fit for the Digital Age, It is a landmark proposal and we can begin trialogues, hopefully within a year from the time that it was tabled. And I think that lives up to the expectation of taking action and taking speedily action. Of course, it's a complex proposal, but it has a very simple aim to make sure that markets are open and fair are contestable so that every business have a fair chance of making it to their customers.

SOUNDBITE (French), Thierry BRETON, European Commissioner for Internal Market, Europe will be taking leadership in terms of the digital space. Of course, we've heard criticism from the other side of the Atlantic regarding our approach, despite attempts to align things, particularly with regard to the TTC, which turned out to be not particularly fruitful, at least at this stage. But our legislation is not against any particular company or against any particular country. It's there to preserve the proper functioning of the internal market, and I'd like to pay tribute to parliament and council who, despite the lobbies which we all were able to see, have managed to keep 100 per cent of the dilemma.

SOUNDBITE (English), Marcel KOLAJA (Greens/EFA, CZ), We don't need to get stuck in dominant social networks that monetize our data and targets with a target us with commercial offers based on our biggest fears or keep us locked in information bubbles. We don't need to open a dozen chat service accounts and install a dozen applications to stay in touch with our friends. It's just a matter of decision, a decision that Europe has to make.

SOUNDBITE (German), Martin SCHIRDEWAN (The Left, DE), I think the DMA, not just with a few companies, needs to focus on transparency for all companies. This is important for users to avoid Chinese, European or American companies exploiting the market and their dominant position. We definitely need to ensure that this should be taken into account. Unfortunately, this is not dealt with sufficiently for us in the report. And of course, we need to put an end to the attention seeking business models and targeted advertising because we have to take hatred and rubbish out of these communications so that people can have certain protection of their personal data.

Extract from the results of the vote, announced by Roberta METSOLA - Vice-president of the EP