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Art. 40 DMA · Chapter V: INVESTIGATIVE, ENFORCEMENT AND MONITORING POWERS

# Article 40 DMA: The high-level group

Official Journal text of 12 October 2022, as corrected (OJ L, 2025/90024, 10.1.2025). Retrieved 30 October 2026.

## Official text

### Article 40(1)

**1.** The Commission shall establish a high-level group for the Digital Markets Act (‘the high-level group’).

### Article 40(2)

**2.** The high-level group shall be composed of the following European bodies and networks:

#### Article 40(2)(a)

**(a)** Body of the European Regulators for Electronic Communications;

#### Article 40(2)(b)

**(b)** European Data Protection Supervisor and European Data Protection Board;

#### Article 40(2)(c)

**(c)** European Competition Network;

#### Article 40(2)(d)

**(d)** Consumer Protection Cooperation Network; and

#### Article 40(2)(e)

**(e)** European Regulatory Group of Audiovisual Media Regulators.

### Article 40(3)

**3.** The European bodies and networks referred to in paragraph 2 shall each have an equal number of representatives in the high-level group. The maximum number of members of the high-level group shall not exceed 30.

### Article 40(4)

**4.** The Commission shall provide secretariat services to the high-level group in order to facilitate its work. The high-level group shall be chaired by the Commission, which shall participate in its meetings. The high-level group shall meet upon request of the Commission at least once per calendar year. The Commission shall also convene a meeting of the group when so requested by the majority of the members composing the group in order to address a specific issue.

### Article 40(5)

**5.** The high-level group may provide the Commission with advice and expertise in the areas falling within the competences of its members, including:

#### Article 40(5)(a)

**(a)** advice and recommendations within their expertise relevant for any general matter of implementation or enforcement of this Regulation; or

#### Article 40(5)(b)

**(b)** advice and expertise promoting a consistent regulatory approach across different regulatory instruments.

### Article 40(6)

**6.** The high-level group may, in particular, identify and assess the current and potential interactions between this Regulation and the sector-specific rules applied by the national authorities composing the European bodies and networks referred to in paragraph 2 and submit an annual report to the Commission presenting such assessment and identifying potential trans-regulatory issues. Such report may be accompanied by recommendations aiming at converging towards consistent transdisciplinary approaches and synergies between the implementation of this Regulation and other sectoral regulations. The report shall be communicated to the European Parliament and to the Council.

### Article 40(7)

**7.** In the context of market investigations into new services and new practices, the high-level group may provide expertise to the Commission on the need to amend, add or remove rules in this Regulation, to ensure that digital markets across the Union are contestable and fair.

## Source

Source: Regulation (EU) 2022/1925, OJ L 265, 12.10.2022, p. 1, as corrected. Only the text published in the Official Journal is authentic. © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu

[Article 40 on EUR-Lex](https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32022R1925#art_40)

Official Journal text of 12 October 2022, as corrected (OJ L, 2025/90024, 10.1.2025). Retrieved 30 October 2026.

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