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‘No scope’ for efficiency defenses to EU's Digital Markets Act, Bernaerts says

By Natalie McNelis
  • 04 Mar 2021 03:07
  • 04 Mar 2021 03:07
Efficiencies will have already been taken into account in crafting provisions for the Digital Markets Act and won’t be a defense to application of its provisions, according to senior EU official Inge Bernaerts.
“In the DMA, there is no scope for efficiency defenses — that is a key feature of

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Natalie McNelis

Senior Correspondent


Natalie McNelis covers mergers for MLex in Brussels. Before joining MLex in 2017, she spent 20 years as an international trade and competition lawyer in law firms including Stibbe and WilmerHale. Natalie has a BA in English from Mount Holyoke College, a JD from Harvard Law School and an LLM in EU law from KU Leuven. She is admitted to the bar in New York.

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