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ECIPE urges EU to model DMA review on Japan's narrower platform law

ECIPE's Fredrik Erixon, Andrea Dugo and Dyuti Pandya argue the Commission's ongoing Digital Markets Act review should borrow Japan's narrower, effects-based Mobile Software Competition Act rather than keep the EU's broad, categorical rulebook.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted ECIPE, 9 February 2026

What the source does not establish. This does not establish that the Commission will adopt any Japan-style change in its DMA review.

Index score. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. Opinion on the open DMA review; no Commission decision has been taken. European Sovereignty Index

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