The application of EU rules for large digital platforms is under pressure, MEPs demand swift action.

The European Parliament calls on the European Commission to finalize without delay the ongoing non-compliance procedures based on the Digital Markets Act and to treat the application of the regulation as a test of the openness of the digital market, competition, and the regulatory autonomy of the European Union. The message comes after the adoption, in the Internal Market and Consumer Protection Committee, of a resolution draft regarding the application of the legislation adopted in 2022.

In short

MEPs urge the Commission to quickly close non-compliance investigations and to use all the tools provided by the DMA.

The resolution calls for the upcoming review of the DMA to strengthen law enforcement, without reopening the objectives, scope, or basic architecture.

The Internal Market Committee warns that generative AI and cloud infrastructures can create new forms of market lock-in by gatekeepers.

MEPs demand resilience to external political pressures and state that EU rules must apply to all gatekeepers, regardless of nationality or place of establishment.

The text also calls for a significant strengthening of human and financial resources dedicated to the enforcement of the DMA.

The resolution draft was adopted on Tuesday in committee and assesses the application of the Digital Markets Act, as well as its impact on the technology industry, ahead of the upcoming review of the regulation. The text emphasizes that the DMA remains a key tool for opening the market, fairness, competition, and user choice, and insists that the future review must aim to enhance the effectiveness and applicability of the existing framework, without reopening the substantive objectives, scope, and its central architecture.

The strongest political message in the text concerns the pace of enforcement. MEPs urge the Commission to make "full and proactive use" of all the tools at its disposal, including inspections, interim measures, and periodic penalties, to prevent companies from circumventing the regulation. In the Romanian version, the wording means that the European executive must fully and proactively use all available tools. At the same time, the text calls for non-compliance procedures to be closed without unjustified delays, respecting mandatory and indicative deadlines and informing the European Parliament about progress.

The resolution explicitly links the enforcement of the DMA to the dimension of European sovereignty. The Internal Market Committee states that the European executive must resist external political pressures from outside the European Union and argues that European rules must be applied equally to all gatekeepers, regardless of their place of establishment or nationality. In this context, the text treats the DMA not only as a competition and internal market file but also as a matter of the Union's regulatory autonomy.

Another central point is the adaptation of the regulation to new technologies. MEPs say that generative AI and cloud infrastructures can enable gatekeepers to create new forms of "lock-in," meaning capturing users and markets through dominant ecosystems that are hard to leave. Consequently, the Commission is urged to carefully assess whether cloud computing services meet the criteria for designation as gatekeepers. The text also mentions that search and assistance tools based on AI developed by dominant gatekeepers are increasingly becoming main gateways for citizens to access information, commerce, and digital services and calls for an examination of the fairness and competitive nature of these functionalities.

The resolution inventories a series of concrete practices that continue to concern MEPs. The text mentions Google's persistent self-preferencing, which it says limits consumer choice, the consent screens used by TikTok through behavioral techniques to obtain consent, how Microsoft handles changing default settings and easy access to competing services, as well as Booking.com's continued use of prohibited parity clauses. These examples are used to show that the effectiveness of the DMA cannot be evaluated solely through formal compliance but through concrete effects for end users and commercial users.

The text explicitly calls for the results of the DMA to be measured in the real economy. MEPs assert that the effectiveness of the regulation depends not only on formal compliance with obligations but also on tangible results for end users and commercial users, including their actual ability to exercise their rights. Hence the call for a "significant reinforcement" of human and financial resources dedicated to the enforcement of the DMA. In Romanian, the wording means a significant strengthening of the resources allocated to the enforcement of the regulation, against the backdrop of the increasing complexity of the digital market.

The committee vote was 33 in favor, two against, and 11 abstentions. The resolution is accompanied by an oral question, and both are set to be put to a vote in the plenary session from April 27-30.

The political and enforcement context is already evolving. The Commission has officially designated seven companies as gatekeepers under the DMA: Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, Microsoft, and Booking.com, and these companies are required to comply with the specific obligations imposed by the regulation for their core platform services. In November 2025, the Commission opened investigations into Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure to determine whether they should be designated as gatekeepers for their cloud computing services. In April 2025, the European executive also adopted the first non-compliance decisions and fines against Meta, regarding its "pay or consent" advertising model, and against Apple, for breaching anti-steering obligations.

Overall, the message from the parliamentary committee is that the Digital Markets Act should not be reopened in its fundamental elements but applied more quickly, more firmly, and adapted to the new digital checkpoints forming around artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructures. For the European Parliament, the real test of the regulation is whether it effectively changes the behavior of gatekeepers and opens the market to competitors, companies, and users.

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