Competition policy – annual report 2025

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1.7.2026 A10-0171/8

Amendment 8

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

on behalf of the Renew Group

Marco Falcone, Adnan Dibrani, Rasmus Andresen, Marco Squarta

Report A10-0171/2026

Stéphanie Yon-Courtin

Competition policy – annual report 2025

(2025/2134(INI))

Motion for a resolution

Paragraph 23

Motion for a resolution

Amendment

23. Stresses that increasing concentration in cloud services may undermine competition, innovation and the EU’s strategic autonomy; highlights that practices such as bundling, cloud marketplaces and contractual mechanisms, including credits and spend commitments, can reinforce vendor lock-in and limit switching or multi-cloud strategies; stresses that cloud obligations must be updated; notes that, in its first review of the DMA, the Commission reports that it opened three market investigations into cloud computing services in November 2025, two to assess whether Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services should be designated as gatekeepers for cloud computing services, and a third to assess whether the DMA can effectively address practices that may limit competitiveness and fairness in cloud computing services16 ; calls on the Commission to use the cloud services market investigation to adjust DMA obligations and ensure that they effectively address the barriers that prevent users from switching providers;

23. Stresses that increasing concentration in cloud services may undermine competition, innovation and the EU’s strategic autonomy; highlights that practices such as bundling, cloud marketplaces and contractual mechanisms, including credits and spend commitments, can reinforce vendor lock-in and limit switching or multi-cloud strategies; stresses that cloud obligations must be updated; notes that, following the market investigations into cloud computing services that were opened in November 2025, the Commission published its preliminary position on 25 June 2026, stating that Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services should be designated as gatekeepers for cloud computing services15a, while its investigation into whether the DMA can effectively address practices that may limit competitiveness and fairness in cloud computing services remains ongoing16; calls on the Commission to use the cloud services market investigation to adjust DMA obligations and ensure that they effectively address the barriers that prevent users from switching providers;

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15a https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-reaches-preliminary-position-amazons-and-microsofts-market-leading-cloud-services-should.

16 European Commission, ‘Commission launches market investigations on cloud computing services under the Digital Markets Act’, European Commission website, 18 November 2025.

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