The European Commission has launched the first statutory review of the Digital Markets Act (DMA), planning to publish its final assessment by May 3, 2026. The Commission’s review mandate is to determine whether the DMA remains fit for purpose, that is, whether it continues to address the problems it was designed to solve: limited contestability, unfair gatekeeper practices toward business users, and persistent legal uncertainty for market participants.
In this comment, we briefly describe the state of enforcement as of the end of 2025. We then offer a number of recommendations, some larger and some smaller, for underutilized opportunities in the law, particular compliance challenges, and directions we encourage the Commission to pursue. We offer this comment as a group of European and American economists, lawyers, and technologists sharing a compilation of recommendations.