Source: TechTimes

A July 8 ruling by the EU General Court in Luxembourg dismissed all three of Apple’s challenges to its gatekeeper designation and established a procedural “sequencing rule” that prevents designated gatekeepers from obtaining judicial review of DMA obligations before the European Commission issues a specific enforcement decision. That sequencing rule means Google cannot seek a pre-emptive injunction against two ongoing specification proceedings and that any Commission decisions will take immediate legal effect when adopted. The Commission has set a firm deadline: it will adopt final decisions in the two cases by 27 July 2026.

The two specification proceedings carry concrete technical and data-sharing mandates. Case DMA.100220 (Article 6(7)) would require Google to provide third-party AI developers free and effective interoperability with Android features used by Gemini across custom wake-word invocation, system-wide entry points, on-screen context access, and on-device data flows. Case DMA.100209 (Article 6(11)) would require Google to share anonymized ranking, query, click, and view data from Google Search with rival search engines and AI chatbot providers on fair, reasonable, and non-discriminatory terms, with specified anonymization, pricing, and auditing regimes. The article reports Google’s public objections that the measures constitute an “unwarranted intervention” and raise privacy, security, and innovation concerns, and notes that any substantive legal challenge by Google can only be brought after the decisions take effect.