Today, the European Commission proposed the Digital Fairness Act (DFA). The European Tech Alliance (EUTA) supports strong and consistently enforced consumer protection that enables informed choice, fairer online markets and a level playing field that allows companies to compete, grow and innovate with confidence. The DFA will further complicate a fragmented rulebook, instead of making the existing pieces fit together and ensuring they are enforced the same way across the Single Market.

The Digital Fairness Fitness Check identified “multifaceted impediments to effective enforcement”. The revision of the Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) Regulation is the opportunity to remove them. The European Tech Alliance (EUTA), the voice of European-born and headquartered tech companies, calls on the European Commission to put forward an ambitious proposal that ends this patchwork and brings a common reading of the rules across the EU. Getting this right means equal protection for consumers, legal certainty for companies and fair competition across the Single Market.