Teresa Ribera

Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President of the European Commission for a Clean, Just and Competitive Transition, oversaw the DMA compliance measures sent to Google on 16 April 2026 requiring it to share search rankings, user queries, and click data with rival engines and AI chatbots on FRAND terms . Ribera stated: 'Data is a key input for online search and for developing new services, including AI', explicitly linking the search-data order to AI competitiveness rather than framing it purely as a competition enforcement action.

A Spanish politician and environmental lawyer, Ribera served as Spain's Minister for Ecological Transition 2018-2024 before joining the von der Leyen II Commission. Her portfolio combines competition policy (she is effectively the successor to Margrethe Vestager's role as EU competition enforcer) with the clean energy and industrial transition agenda. Her dual mandate means she oversees both the DMA enforcement against Google and Meta and the Green Deal industrial policy that shapes European tech sovereignty infrastructure.

Ribera's framing of the Google order as an AI data-access remedy rather than a conventional fine marks a significant shift in how the Commission is using DMA enforcement. The Google decision is due 27 July 2026, five days before the AI Office gains full GPAI enforcement powers on 2 August — a regulatory calendar gap that Ribera has not publicly addressed .