ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Peter Picht

Prof. Dr. Peter Georg Picht, LL.M. (Yale), holds a chair for economic law at Zurich University, heads the University’s Center for Intellectual Property and Competition Law, and is an Affiliated Research Fellow with the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition.

POSTS BY Peter Picht

03 September 2021

Peter Picht

Private Enforcement for the DSA/DGA/DMA Package

The package consisting of the Digital Markets Act, the Digital Services Act, and the Data Governance Act is about empowering authorities vis-à-vis powerful private market players. Private enforcement is absent in this package, despite its great potential: By engaging in rule enforcement, individuals and companies help to confine key market players’ (unlawful use of) economic power, while also counterbalancing a tendency for state agencies to become the sole decision makers on when and how to sanction what they consider undue conduct. Continue reading >>