# The Commission designates Google a DMA gatekeeper

Date: 2023

## The fact

On 6 September 2023 the Commission designated Google a DMA gatekeeper, a completed listing that later forced Search, Play, and ads changes. [Pichai](/people/sundar-pichai) was CEO.

## Context

Neighbouring Mehta 2024 is later US liability. Neighbouring EU ad-tech 2025 is later fine. He did not write the DMA.

Mehta August 2024 is neighbouring US search law. EU ad-tech September 2025 is neighbouring Commission money. Australia 2021 is neighbouring press bargain.

Sundar Pichai has been CEO of Google since 10 August 2015 and of Alphabet since 3 December 2019. He does not write a Sherman Act complaint, a Commission DMA article, a CAC circular, or a Pentagon contract clause by himself as a civil servant. A keynote is not a completed breakup. A liability opinion is not a Chrome sale. A layoff round is not a unique unemployment coefficient as his personal tally. TPU trains; TSMC and partners fabricate; App Review analogues on Play enforce. Keep those dates separate. An AI Principle PDF is not a completed weapons ban. A settlement is not a verdict. [Larry Page](/people/larry-page) is a different person. Sergey Brin is a different person.

## Evidence and sources

European Commission carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [antitrust-pressure-in-digital-markets](/drivers/antitrust-pressure-in-digital-markets): a completed gatekeeper listing is a default-and-Play accountability instrument. A listing is not a completed US breakup.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 6 September 2023 DMA designation of Google, independently reported.

Not established: that US law thereby changed, or a unique later publisher-revenue coefficient from Brussels.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

The Commission listed. Google later shipped EU changes. He did not sit as the hearing officer.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies The Commission designates Google a DMA gatekeeper, not a later speech about The Commission designates Google a DMA gatekeeper.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. The Commission designates Google a DMA gatekeeper on 2023-09-06 is not a licence to treat every later European Commission communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average The Commission designates Google a DMA gatekeeper into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He was CEO of the designated firm. The Commission listed. Google later shipped EU changes. He did not sit as the hearing officer. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Sundar Pichai: https://factrail.ai/people/sundar-pichai

## Drivers

- Antitrust Pressure in Digital Markets: https://factrail.ai/drivers/antitrust-pressure-in-digital-markets
- Digital-Platform Power Concentration: https://factrail.ai/drivers/digital-platform-power-concentration

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-designates-google-dma-gatekeeper-2023-09-06/
- https://digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/goog-dma-2023