19 October 2023
Le Châtelain HotelBrusselsKey Sessions
Michael König
Digital Markets Act (DMA): A View from the Commission
European Commission
Pēteris Zilgalvis
A View from the Court
General Court of the European Union
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Conference Agenda - CET/CEST (Cent Europe Summer, GMT+2)
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Conference Agenda - CET/CEST (Cent Europe Summer, GMT+2)
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08:30 - 09:00
Registration & Networking
09:00 - 09:10
Chair’s Welcome and Introduction
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The New Regulatory Landscape
09:10 - 09:50
Digital Markets Act (DMA): A View from the Commission
09:50 - 10:40
Implementing Digital Markets Act (DMA): Practical Perspectives
- Where are we with implementation?
- Delineation of services: who are the gatekeepers?
- Appeals against designations
- Market definition and market power: what products and services should DMA apply to?
- Defining ‘active end users’ and ‘active business users’
- Cloud services as core platform service (CPS)
- Access to data provisions
- What does ‘fairness’ mean in the Digital Markets Act?
- Will DMA foreclose national rules? What role do national authorities and how can they influence enforcement?
- Do DMA obligations match competition law or go further?
- Implications for competition law
- Where does it leave competition law?
10:40 - 11:00
Networking Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:40
The New Regulatory Landscape: Implications for Compliance
- How are corporates preparing for DMA?
- Complying with DMA, DSA, Data and AI Acts: are the obligations on corporates coherent?
- DMA for non-dominant players: how are they planning to use it?
- Compliance for global companies: should you comply with the most stringent requirements or choose a country by country approach?
11:40 - 12:20
A View from UK: Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill
- Review of UK’s Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers (DMCC) Bill
- Pre-legislative scrutiny
- Is the UK approach diverging from EU?
- Likely implications for corporates
12:20 - 13:20
Networking Lunch
13:20 - 14:20
Global Enforcement Trends
- How are the key regulators around the world approaching enforcement of digital markets?
- Is there a convergence of approaches?
- Compliance implications for global companies
- What do regulators need to do to match dynamic digital industry?
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Competition Law Developments
14:20 - 15:05
Merger Control in Digital Markets: Theories of Harm & Approaches to Remedies
- Lessons learnt from recent mergers, including:
- Microsoft / Activision
- Meta / Giphy
- Google / Photomath
- Retrospective analysis: was Google/Fitbit a damp squib?
- Behavioural vs structural remedies in tech mergers
- Approaches to below threshold deals
- Ecosystems analysis: what are the theories of harm? How do you distribute value fairly in ecosystems? Lessons learnt from Booking/eTaveli
- International divergence of approaches and how global companies should approach it
15:05 - 15:25
Afternoon Coffee Break
15:25 - 16:10
Article 102 Developments
- Article 102 TFEU: amendments to the EC’s guidance paper
- Call for feedback on the adoption of new guidelines
- EC Google Ad Tech investigation
- Update on current cases
- The role of Article 102 post-DMA in digital markets
- Economics of Article 102 and showing anti-competitive effects
16:10 - 16:50
AI, Algorithms & Augmented Reality: Issues at Stake
- AI, algorithms and augmented reality: what are the competition law concerns?
- How are the regulators approaching it?
- Italian privacy regulator’s ban on ChatGPT and review of other artificial intelligence platforms
- UK government White Paper
- EU’s approach including proposals for EU AI Act
16:50 - 17:25
A View from the Court
17:25 - 17:30
Chair’s Closing Remarks & End of Conference
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