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The new regulations will force Apple and Google to allow payments via third-party systems on their app stores.
The European Parliament adopted the Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, proposed by the European Commission back in December 2020. The Digital Services Package will change the way online platforms, including Apple's App Store and Google's Google Play, operate in Europe and are described as the "first comprehensive rulebook for the online platforms that we all depend on in our lives."
To be more precise, the new acts adopted by the Parliament will, among other things, force platform holders to allow their users to install apps and software via means other than the official stores and forbid platform holders from blocking payments via third-party systems. The new rules will be enforced by the Commission for the largest online platforms active in the EU.
The new legislations are to enter into force 20 days after their publication in the Official Journal sometime during autumn 2022. These new rules will be applicable across the whole of the EU and promise to create a "safer and more open digital space, grounded in respect for fundamental rights".
"Ten years ago, a page was turned on ‘too big to fail' banks. Now – with DSA & DMA – we're turning the page on ‘too big to care' platforms," comments Thierry Breton, Commissioner for the Internal Market. "We are finally building a single digital market, the most important one in the ‘free world'. The same predictable rules will apply, everywhere in the EU, for our 450 million citizens, bringing everyone a safer and fairer digital space."
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