The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) has released a new explainer, “Understanding Europe’s Digital and Competition Laws: Fair, Open and Pro‑Innovation,” outlining how recent EU and UK rules are reshaping digital markets to work better for consumers and innovators. The publication highlights how measures such as the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA), the Digital Services Act (DSA), and the UK Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (DMCCA) tackle the market power of large online platforms, address unfair practices, and strengthen consumer safety and trust online.
The explainer sets out why concentrated power in digital markets harms consumer choice, privacy, and innovation, and shows how new rules open up markets, foster competition, and support startups and SMEs. It also stresses that these laws are non-discriminatory and apply to companies from all regions, promoting fairer, more transparent digital ecosystems across borders.
About TACD:
The Transatlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD) has championed the consumer perspective in transatlantic decision making since 1998. It is our mission to ensure that EU and U.S. policy and regulatory dialogues are well-informed about the impacts of policy decisions on consumers and citizens and promotes their well-being and rights on both sides of the Atlantic.
The TACD network enables members to strengthen their advocacy and enforcement capacities by facilitating sharing of intelligence, best practices, and coordinated messaging to policy and regulatory audiences. The 75+ strong TACD membership has grown organically over the years and commands a broad expertise of consumer protection and policy, citizen rights, digital rights, and other specialist issues both in the EU and the U.S.