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CEOs will attend. Rumour has it that they will send senior executives instead.


• The French government is doing its own thing and trying to move ahead of the proposal. Indeed, they have copy-pasted elements of the Digital Services Act into their own bill. This obviously says a lot about who is pushing for the DSA. The question remains, as the e-Commerce Directive continues to be in force, whether the French initiative is legally compatible with the e-Commerce text.


I would say let the games begin, but they have already begun...


Just to highlight a couple of elements of what is going on:


• The European Parliament is looking to organise hearings of Amazon, Facebook, Google, Apple, etc. Originally intended for February, it has been pushed back two months. The question is whether the


• The Commission proposal is one thing. It still has to go through the European Parliament and the EU-27. And the differences are more than stark. Notice & action procedures and transparency requirements for online advertisement have brought out quite some differences between Member States, but it seems, the uncontended champion herein is, yes, you got it, the definition of a “Gatekeeper”.


Greetings from Brussels and #StaySafeStayTuned.


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