DMA Implementing Regulation

FORMAT OF DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED UNDER Digital Markets Act

Documents submitted to the Commission pursuant to Article 3, Article 8(3), and Articles 9, 10, 11, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 24, 25, 29 and 34 of Digital Markets Act shall be submitted in a format allowing the Commission to process them electronically and, in particular, enabling their digitisation and character recognition.

For this purpose, the following requirements must be complied with:

(a) the text, in A4 format, shall be easily legible and appear on one side of the page only;

(b) documents produced in paper format shall be assembled in such a way as to be easily separable (not bound together or permanently attached by other means, such as glue or staples);

(c) the text shall be in a commonly-used font (such as Times New Roman, Courier or Arial) in at least 12 point in the body of the text and at least 10 point in the footnotes, with single line spacing, and upper, lower, left and right margins of at least 2.5 cm (maximum 4 700 characters per page);

(d) the pages and paragraphs of each document shall be numbered consecutively.

LENGTH OF DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED UNDER Digital Markets Act

The following rules on page limits apply to the respective types of documents set out below. By way of exception, any annexes accompanying those documents shall not count towards the applicable page limits, provided those annexes have a purely evidential and instrumental function and are proportionate in number and length.

(a) Notifications under Article 3(3), first subparagraph, and submissions of information following a Commission request under Article 3(3), second subparagraph, of Digital Markets Act

All the information concerning the thresholds set out in Article 3(2) of Digital Markets Act shall be presented in the body of the Form GD provided in Annex I to this Regulation.

For each distinct core platform service, including all plausible alternative delineations thereof, in relation to which the notifying undertaking meets all of the thresholds set out in Article 3(2) of Digital Markets Act, the maximum number of pages in the notification concerned shall be 50. This page limit applies to the information provided in relation to core platform services in Section 2 and Section 4 of the Form GD. In completing Sections 2, 3 and 4 of that Form, the notifying undertaking is invited to consider whether, for purposes of clarity, these sections are best presented in numerical order, or whether they can be grouped together for each distinct core platform service.

(b) Substantiated arguments under Article 3(5) of Digital Markets Act

For each distinct core platform service for which the notifying undertaking elects to present substantiated arguments under Article 3(5) of Digital Markets Act, the maximum number of pages shall be 30.

(c) Reasoned requests under Articles 9 and 10 of Digital Markets Act

For reasoned requests pursuant to Articles 9 and 10 of Digital Markets Act, the maximum number of pages shall be 30.

(d) Replies to preliminary findings under Digital Markets Act

Where the Commission informed the undertaking or association of undertakings concerned in writing of its preliminary findings with a view to adopting a decision pursuant to Article 8, Articles 9(1) and 10(1), Articles 17, 18, 24, 25, 29, 30 or Article 31(2) of Digital Markets Act, the maximum number of pages of the written reply shall be 50 pages or the number of pages of the preliminary findings, whichever is higher.