(Brussels Comprehensive) The European Union reached a temporary agreement on Thursday to restrict the milestone rules of science and technology giants, which means that technology giants such as Google, Amazon, Apple, Meta, and Microsoft may be forced to change the operating model of the core business in the future.
France, currently serving as the EU's rotating chairman, revealed that member states reached a temporary agreement after an eight -hour talks.
The EU's internal market and service executive Brighton pointed out that the agreement will ensure fairness and opening up the digital market.
Visteig, the EU competition executive committee who proposed these regulatory rules a year ago: "We want very simple -the digital market must also be fair.Enterprises and consumers benefit from the competitive digital market. "
" Gatekeeepers "enterprises refer to large enterprises that provide social networks and search engines such as" core platform services ", the European Union, the European Union, the European UnionThe Digital Market Act (DMA) proposed to formulate rules for these "watchmen" for these networks, including stipulating that technology giants must enable their information services to be interoperable and allow enterprise users to access data.
On the platform, corporate users can promote products and services competing with the platform, and can also reach transactions with customers outside the platform.
New rules also prohibit technology companies from favors their own services and suppress competitors, or prevent users from deleting pre -installed software or applications.
The new bill is expected to take effect next year, and it is applicable to companies with a market value of 75 billion euros (about 112 billion yuan), an annual turnover of 7.5 billion euros, and at least 45 million monthly end users.
Companies that violate the regulations may be fined equivalent to 10%of its global turnover, and the fines of the criminals can reach 20%of its global turnover.
Apple and Google both expressed concern about the new regulations, thinking that this may cause unnecessary privacy and security loopholes to users, and can also reduce the options of innovation and European people.
Experts believe that the new bill is only the first step to ensure the fair competition of technology giants.
The partner of Dechert, Bernestede, said: "At the beginning, the digital market bill is not the perfect pitch. There is no doubt that the" gatekeeper "will try to bypassIt ... the new rules of the digital economy road will be formed in the next period of time, and the digital market bill is only the first step. "
