The Digital Market Act Proposal in the European Union
The European Commission has run public consultation on two legislative proposals that deal with new instruments that should tackle the specific characteristics of digital markets. A new set of rules for digital platforms shall be proposed, ranging from user´s rights and rules on unfair trading practices to rules set ex ante on gatekeepers with dominant position or possibly new powers for investigating markets that are likely to show market failures. New strategies observed in the market, as self preferencing, some forms of tying or selective data sharing may be partially curtailed or ex post monitored by competition and/or regulatory authorities on specific gatekeepers in order to guarantee a level playing field.
What set of new rules have been considered to be defined? What ex ante restrictions, if any, on the behavior of gatekeepers are to be expected? Is the current competition policy framework not enough to deal with the emerging and business models in the digital markets?
Online session
The workshop will take place online via Google Meet.
To join the online session please go to: https://meet.google.com/brp-amqf-vds and you will be granted access soon after signing up.