ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Sarah Hinck

Sarah Hinck is a PhD researcher at the Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Chair for civil law, German and European competition law of Prof. Dr. Rupprecht Podszun and part of the SCiDA-Project team (Shaping Competition in the Digital Age), a comparative research project focusing on digital platform regulation.

POSTS BY Sarah Hinck

30 July 2024

ByteDance v. Commission

The Digital Markets Act (DMA) is a revolutionary tool to regulate EU digital markets, it complements competition law by imposing ex ante obligations on the largest digital undertakings. The General Court judgement in the ByteDance case was the first test of the limits of this expediated enforcement and resulted in a remarkable win for the Commission. The Court dismissed ByteDance’s appeal against the European Commission’s decision to designate ByteDance with its social network TikTok as gatekeeper under the DMA. Continue reading >>