BRUSSELS, July 23 (Reuters) - The European Commission

will not ask Alphabet, Amazon ( AMZN ), Apple ( AAPL )

, ByteDance, Meta Platforms ( META ) and Microsoft ( MSFT )

to pay the cost of monitoring their compliance with a

new digital law, the EU tech chief said on Wednesday.

Germany and European Parliament lawmakers have lobbied for a

supervisory fee to be levied on Big Tech to help EU antitrust

regulators better enforce the Digital Markets Act.

The European Commission Executive Vice-President Henna

Virkkunen, who is responsible for the technology sector, said

rules were always under review and she would monitor

developments, but had no plans to make the companies pay despite

the enormous volume of monitoring work.

"So it's always, of course, there is this possibility, but

now we are not having any new proposal on that," Virkkunen told

Reuters in an interview.

The landmark legislation, which has been enforced since

2023, sets out a list of dos and don'ts aimed at curbing the six

companies' power and giving consumers more choice. The group of

Big Tech companies, which includes Booking.com, were picked

because they provide a core platform service for business users.

Proponents of a DMA supervisory fee said it should be

similar to the levy imposed on big online platforms subject to

another piece of legislation called the Digital Services Tax

that requires companies to do more to police content on their

sites.

The digital services supervisory fee amounts to 0.05% of a

company's annual worldwide net income.