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Three enforcement checks came back empty

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No Federal Register docket for the Section 301 digital probe, no visible Google appeal against its 890 million euro fine, and a CAPTCHA where Poland's bill listing should be.

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Key takeaway

Three registries were checked and none showed a filing; absence of record is not absence of action.

A Federal Register query on 4 August for Section 301 digital documents published since 24 July returned nine items, none of them concerning EU digital enforcement, and USTR, the Office of the US Trade Representative, carries nothing newer on its press index than a 23 July statement 1. The Section 301 digital-enforcement investigation ordered on 24 July therefore has no docket number, no notice and no comment period on the public record. An investigation can run for weeks before its notice publishes, so the finding bounds the paperwork rather than the policy behind it.

Google shows no visible appeal against the EUR 890m fine imposed on 23 July under the Digital Markets Act, the EU's competition rulebook for large platforms. The Commission's own enforcement pages list nothing since the decision 2, and the Court of Justice of the European Union case register runs on a JavaScript form our tooling cannot query. We read the Official Journal C series issues of 3 and 4 August and found no action naming the company 3. The actions those issues do carry were lodged six to seven weeks earlier, so this route could not surface a filing made since 23 July even if one exists. The compliance deadline falls on 21 September.

Poland's technology sovereignty test for public contracts is unchecked rather than stalled. The Sejm's listing of new bills returned a CAPTCHA challenge on 4 August and we hold no bill number for a direct query 4, so whether the bill has reached the order paper remains unknown. Three separate registries, three different obstacles, and in each case the honest description is that we looked and could not see, not that nothing happened.

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In plain English

Three separate US-EU technology disputes were all expected to produce some visible next step by early August, and by 4 August none had. The US trade investigation into EU digital rules has filed no paperwork. Google has not publicly challenged its record EU fine. And a proposed Polish law requiring technology suppliers to prove independence from foreign control could not even be checked on the Polish parliament's own website, which blocked automated access. All three are stuck in the same holding pattern.

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Update #14 · AI Act fines arrive, three states list no regulator

Official Journal of the European Union· 4 Aug 2026
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