Google Returns to Anti-Competitive Behavior.

Statements / Open Letters · June 1, 2023

ESD brings its concerns about Google's proposed 90-day certificate policy directly to the European Commission. In a meeting with the Cabinet of Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, ESD highlights the potential consequences for QWACs, competition and user choice, and places the issue in the wider context of the ongoing eIDAS 2.0 negotiations. ESD stresses that technical requirements set unilaterally by dominant market actors should not be able to circumvent or undermine the European regulatory framework. The discussion therefore connects the immediate 90-day certificate issue with the broader objective of Article 45: ensuring that EU-regulated trust services are governed by European law and transparent standard-setting rather than proprietary rules alone.