By: Leonardo Neri

Consumer and Digital Law specialist, Leonardo Neri, believes that the European regulatory framework will have a global impact, in the same way that it did in 2018, with the advent of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Digital market laws were approved by the European Union (EU) Parliament earlier this month, introducing important rules on interoperability, security, privacy, consumer/internet user rights, and combating fake news and hate speech. These new laws, called the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the Digital Services Act (DSA), are expected to trigger a global regulatory scramble.

The legal process in the EU will follow these steps: after approval, these laws will be added to the Council of the EU, with the DMA coming into effect in July and the DSA in September. They will then be published in the EU Official Journal, which is similar to the Official Gazette.

Official Gazette. The DMA will begin to be implemented six months after publication in the Journal – with another six months for all involved to adapt and the DSA only in January 2024.

Interoperability is one of the most striking features of the new Digital Markets Act (DMA) and Digital Services Act (DSA), covering communication between users and platforms. Not all parties involved will necessarily be on a single messaging platform. This means that messages can be sent to users of other apps, such as Telegram, Threema, Viber and Signal.

These new rules have a major impact not only on the European bloc, but also on all the countries and continents that the European Union interacts with, as we live in times of a shared economy, where information increasingly transcends borders in a matter of seconds.

In the opinion of the Consumer and Digital Law specialist, Leonardo Neri, Mazzucco & Mello Advogados, the European regulatory framework will have a global impact, in the same way that occurred in 2018 with the advent of the GDPR, which was a precursor to the enactment of the LGPD.

Leonardo believes that these regulations, which complement the GDPR and, consequently, the LGPD itself, are the result of the maturing of the theme of Privacy and Personal Data Protection. He states that these laws speak directly to the ESG movement, which is being widely debated in companies around the world, as they will help to spread the concepts attributed to it.

“The European Union has been discussing these laws for a long time, but they gained momentum during the pandemic, in 2020 and 2021. In Brazil, the movement will be no different, as the topic has been discussed not only in the business sphere, but also in the public sphere with the authenticity of a fairer democracy, for example”, concludes Neri.