DMAEU Platform Regulation
EU Digital Markets Act Gatekeepers, CPS, and Product Obligations
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.
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GatekeepersCurrent designation map
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.
Designation thresholds
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.
Compliance clock
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.
A threshold result is not a designation decision, and a Commission specification decision is not a finding of non-compliance. Use the topic guides to identify the right legal stage before assigning product controls or evidence.
Key dates
2022/1925
Regulation
Art. 3
Designation
Arts. 5-7
Duties
Art. 30
Fines
DMA questions this hub helps answer
Gatekeeper designation
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.
Core platform service boundary
Separate online intermediation, search, social networking, video-sharing, number-independent messaging, operating systems, browsers, virtual assistants, cloud, and online advertising services before mapping obligations.
Product compliance workstreams
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.
Gatekeeper designation
Core platform services
Article 11 reports
Publication details
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Author
Sorena AI
Published
Feb 23, 2026
Updated
Jul 24, 2026
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.
DMA Timeline
Key milestones for DMA designation and compliance
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.
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Obligations and product rules
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Implementation and evidence
Turn the applicable obligations into owned controls, product-release gates, anti-circumvention review, monitoring, and an Article 11 evidence pack for each designated service.
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Build a DMA core platform service obligation matrix that links each designated CPS to Articles 5, 6 and 7 duties, product owners, designation evidence, Article 11 report artifacts and review gates.
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DMA Product Change Review Workflow for Articles 5, 6, 7, 11 and 13
Review DMA-relevant product releases for Article 5, Article 6, Article 7, anti-circumvention, Article 11 evidence, and product-owner/legal signoff.
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Review DMA Article 13 anti-circumvention risks in gatekeeper product, interface, contractual, commercial, and technical changes with obligation mapping and evidence records.
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Deadlines, reporting, and enforcement
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.
EU Digital Markets Act deadlines and compliance calendar
Calculate DMA notification, designation, service-compliance, Article 11 reporting, concentration-notice, and profiling-audit deadlines from the correct legal trigger.
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Build a DMA Article 11 compliance-report calendar with the correct designation trigger, service annexes, evidence owners, annual updates, and publication gates.
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DMA enforcement, penalties, and remedies: Commission powers and evidence
Follow DMA enforcement from investigation and preliminary findings to non-compliance decisions, fines, daily payments, interim measures, commitments, and remedies.
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DMA penalties and fines: caps, triggers, and enforcement evidence
Compare DMA Article 30 fine ceilings, the narrow 20% repeat test, 1% procedural fines, and Article 31 daily payments, with decision-specific examples.
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Compare adjacent rules or answer a specific question
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.
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Next step
DMA exposure mapping and evidence work
This hub is the shared starting point for DMA scoping. 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.
What this unlocks
- Start with one undertaking and one service boundary: category of , EU end-user count, EU business-user count, Member State coverage, turnover or market-value position, and current Commission designation status.
- For designated core platform services, map each Article 5, 6, and 7 obligation to concrete product behavior: consent flows, anti-steering terms, ranking, defaults, uninstall and app-store access, data portability, business-user data, advertising transparency, and .
- Build the Article 11 evidence pack by and obligation: implementation date, pre-change behavior, technical changes, user-interface changes, terms changes, consultations, tests, indicators, raw data availability, and non-confidential summary positions.
- Treat enforcement readiness as a product-control issue: the Commission can impose fines up to 10% of total worldwide turnover, up to 20% for the same or a similar Article 5, 6, or 7 infringement involving the same after a non-compliance decision in the preceding eight years, and periodic penalty payments up to 5% of average daily worldwide turnover per day.
Recommended route
Open Assessment Autopilot
Turn DMA gatekeeper, core platform service, Articles 5-7, Article 11, and interoperability questions into owned tasks and evidence requests.
Supporting route
Open Research Copilot
Answer DMA scope, designation, threshold, obligation, reporting, interoperability, and enforcement questions with cited outputs.
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