DMA
A cited EU Digital Markets Act hub for designation, core platform services, Articles 5-7 obligations, Article 11 reports, , and penalties.
The DMA applies across the EU to undertakings designated by the European Commission as gatekeepers and to the core platform services listed in their designation decisions. This hub explains designation, service scope, Articles 5-7 duties, reporting, and enforcement.
Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 has applied since 2 May 2023. Use the binding text and the relevant Commission decision for the legal position; the workflows and checklists here are Sorena review aids.
The Commission Gatekeepers Portal lists Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Booking, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft as gatekeepers, with 23 designated core platform services after Meta's Facebook Marketplace undesignation on 23 April 2025.
Article 3 includes presumptions based on EUR 7.5 billion EU turnover in each of the last three financial years or EUR 75 billion market value, at least three Member States, 45 million monthly active EU end users, and 10,000 yearly active EU business users.
Once a is listed in a designation decision, the must comply with Articles 5, 6, and 7 within six months. The first Article 11 report and public non-confidential summary are due within the same six-month period and must be updated at least annually.
Check the Article 3 criteria: significant internal-market impact, an important gateway from business users to end users, and an entrenched and durable position, including the quantitative presumptions. Classify each and before calculating the service-specific thresholds.
Separate online intermediation, search, social networking, video-sharing, number-independent messaging, operating systems, browsers, virtual assistants, cloud, and online advertising services before mapping obligations.
After a service is listed, map each applicable Article 5, 6, and 7 paragraph to consent, steering, ranking, defaults, app installation, data access, advertising, , or another concrete product surface. The general compliance period is six months after listing.
The DMA entered into force on 1 November 2022 and has applied since 2 May 2023. Track later service-specific designation decisions, six-month compliance windows, annual reporting updates, specification decisions, and enforcement milestones only where cited sources support them.
New to the DMA? Start by confirming the undertaking, , thresholds, and designation status. If those decisions are already documented, jump to the obligation, evidence, deadline, enforcement, or comparison you need.
Decide whether the service is a DMA , test the Article 3 criteria and quantitative presumptions, and prepare the service-specific designation record.
Map Articles 5, 6, and 7 to the listed service, then examine the product areas where , data access, ranking, steering, defaults, and user choice become concrete.
Turn the applicable obligations into owned controls, product-release gates, anti-circumvention review, monitoring, and an Article 11 evidence pack for each designated service.
Track event-driven notification and compliance clocks, annual reporting and audit work, Commission proceedings, remedies, fines, and periodic penalty payments without treating every date as universal.
Separate DMA duties from the DSA, Data Act, GDPR, and EU competition law, or use the focused FAQ when you already know the question you need to resolve.
"This template specifies the minimum information that gatekeepers should provide in the Compliance Report."
"In total, 23 core platform services provided by those gatekeepers are currently designated."
"The DMA contains the main rules for the designation of gatekeepers"
"The gatekeeper shall comply with the obligations laid down in Articles 5, 6 and 7 within 6 months"
Next steps
Confirm whether the undertaking is already designated or near the Article 3 thresholds, identify each , and then assign Article 5, 6, 7, and 11 work to the product, data, ads, app-store, , reporting, and legal owners who can change the service.
Turn DMA , , Articles 5-7, Article 11, and questions into owned tasks and evidence requests.
Answer DMA scope, designation, threshold, obligation, reporting, , and enforcement questions with cited outputs.
Align DMA designation, compliance, reporting, , and enforcement milestones across teams.
Review exposure, CPS boundaries, product changes, Article 11 evidence, and enforcement readiness.