The European Commission has confirmed that it will not require major tech firms, including Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, ByteDance, Meta, and Microsoft, to pay for the monitoring of their compliance with the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

This decision follows calls from Germany and members of the European Parliament to implement a supervisory fee to support DMA enforcement.

Henna Virkkunen, the European Commission’s executive vice-president for technology, said that while the rules are under review, there are currently no plans to propose such a fee.

“It’s always, of course, a possibility, but now we are not having any new proposal on that,” she told Reuters.

Enforced since 2023, the DMA aims to limit the power of designated “gatekeeper” companies and enhance consumer choice by imposing obligations on these tech giants.

These obligations include measures to promote fair competition for business users who depend on their core platform services.

Proponents of a supervisory fee argue it could resemble the levy under the Digital Services Act, which charges 0.05% of a company’s global annual revenue to fund compliance monitoring.

However, no similar fee is planned for DMA compliance at this time.

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