European UnionEuropean UnionLawRegulation (EU) 2022/1925

Digital Markets Act

Sets obligations and prohibitions for large online platforms designated as gatekeepers, such as bans on self-preferencing and anti-steering, and requirements on interoperability and data use.

Body

European Parliament and Council

Session

9th parliamentary term

Introduced

Dec 15, 2020

In effect since

Nov 1, 20224y4 years ago

Topics

PlatformsData

Related

European Union

European Unionunverified

Keeping Internet Digital Spaces Accountable and Trustworthy Act

The European Commission adopted a legislative proposal aimed at strengthening the protection of children online.

ProposedNov 7

European Union

European Unionunverified

Digital Services Act TikTok Investigation

The European Commission preliminarily found TikTok in breach of the Digital Services Act over harmful algorithmic rabbit hole effects in its recommender system.

RuledNov 6

European Union

European Unionunverified

Digital Legislation Overhaul Package

The Council of the European Union agreed on its negotiating position regarding updates to data protection, cookie, data sharing, and incident reporting rules.

Passed one chamberOct 23

European Union

European UnionRegulation (EU) 2023/2854

Data Act

Sets rules on who can access and use data generated by connected products and related services, on business-to-government data sharing in exceptional need, and on switching between cloud and data processing services.

In forceSep 12

European Union

European UnionCOM(2025) 837

Digital Omnibus (data, GDPR, ePrivacy, NIS2 simplification)

Proposed regulation that amends the GDPR, the ePrivacy Directive, NIS2 and the Data Act to simplify EU rules on cookie consent, incident reporting and data sharing, and folds several data laws, including the Data Governance Act, into the Data Act.

ProposedJul 27

European Union

European Union

DMA non-compliance decision against Google

Commission decision fining Google 890 million euros under the Digital Markets Act: 460 million for self-preferencing its own services in Google Search and 430 million for anti-steering restrictions on Google Play.

RuledJul 23

European Union

European UnionRegulation (EU) 2022/2065

Digital Services Act

Sets due diligence obligations for online intermediaries and platforms on illegal content, transparency, advertising and protection of minors, with extra systemic risk duties for very large online platforms and search engines supervised by the Commission.

In forceJul 20

European Union

European UnionC(2025) 8630 final

DSA non-compliance decision against X

First Digital Services Act non-compliance decision, fining X 120 million euros for deceptive design of its blue checkmark (Article 25(1)), a deficient advertising repository (Article 39) and failing to give researchers access to public data (Article 40(12)).

RuledJul 15

Summaries of public legislative records, executive actions and court rulings, for reference, not legal advice. Check the official page linked on each item. First seen 2026-09-27. Checked against the official source.