The EU Digital Markets Competition Litigation & Compliance Forum 2025

Registration
09:00

Chairperson’s Welcome
09:30

Keynote: European Commission on the State of Competition in the Digital Market
09:40

Assessing the Effectiveness of the DMA a Year on
10:15

• The effectiveness of DMA Compliance Obligations
• Assessing the newly released 2025 Gatekeeper Compliance reports
• Discussing the non-compliance cases and the path ahead

Networking & Refreshment Break
11:00

Recent Public Enforcement Cases in Digital Markets and Looking Ahead to the Commission’s Next 4 Years
11:20

• Lessons from Google Ad Tech, Teams and Meta (Facebook Marketplace)
• Are the new article 102 guidelines a paper tiger?
• Latest 102 actions
• Key cases by national authorities

Examining the Latest Private Enforcement Developments in the Digital Market
12:05

• Follow-on actions and changing opportunities
• UK opt-out – a model also for the EU?
• Antitrust Damages Directive – Do we Need an Update for Article 102 Cases?
• Google Shopping cases: paving the way for private enforcement in the digital sphere?
• Private enforcement of the DMA – where do we stand?  

Networking & Lunch Break
12:50

Navigating the Challenges to Mergers in the Digital Market
13:50

• How Merger Control Rules are interacting with the DMA
• Theories of Harm in the Digital Economy
• Balancing requirements and remedies of diverging regulators;
• Illumina and beyond – how should NCAs cooperate with the EC

Analysing the EU Regulatory Landscape for AI: Friend or Foe
14:35

• The AI Act and competition
• DSA, Data Acts and DMA - effect on  competition around AI
• Discussing different approaches and assumptions on AI by regulators
• Ideas: Sector inquiries into AI – what have we learned about actual and potential harms thus far?

Networking & Refreshment Break
15:20

Analysing the Effect of Global Antitrust Actions on the EU’s Digital Landscape
15:40

• A look at the US revived antitrust enforcement and UK’s approaches to the Digital Market compared to the EU’s
• The impact of remedies in external jurisdictions on the EU’s Digital Market
• Potential follow-ons in the EU from international actions
• Global antitrust – global remedies? How to coordinate enforcement measures

Discussing the Usefulness of 102, DMA, or Private Enforcement as The Remedy in Digital Competition
16:25

A discussion on public, private and DMA enforcement in the digital space comparing their effectiveness as remedies. Delegates are encouraged to take part in this discussion with the panellists throughout the session.

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks
17:10