…apps and app stores on iOS (see here) as well as Alphabet’s proposed solutions (?) regarding the self-preferencing prohibition, which did not fundamentally meet the expectations of stakeholders following the…
…personal data. Deliberately conflating public and private powers must trigger legal consequences for those abetting the confusion. As they did with utilities-based regulation, policymakers are progressively designing self-regulation-inspired instruments to…
…TRY 2.6 billion (approx. EUR 75 million). Trendyol’s self-preferencing practices: Trendyol faced a fine of TRY 61.3 million (approx. EUR 1.75 million) for prioritizing its private label products in its…
…regulatory competition is fair, i.e., if there is no (significant) asymmetry of power or the effects are proportionate to attaining digital sovereignty. Yo Sop Choi & Kazuhiko Fuchikawa, Self-Preferencing…
…necessity of demonstrating significant foreclosure effects alongside specific circumstances to establish a self-preferencing abuse, ensuring that not all self-preferencing is treated as inherently harmful. The discrimination itself needs to be…
…was possible, but expansion would be controlled by the entrenched market power of a few super-platforms; choice was ample, but competition would be limited due to leveraging practices like self-preferencing,…
…process and assist in the application and interpretation of exceptions. While most exceptions are based on the self-assessment of the notifying parties, the exception for private equity funds requires justification…
…of the broad obligations it would introduce to the CCA in the form of prohibitions relating to conduct involving, for example, self-preferencing or restrictions on interoperability limiting effective competition. Once…
…for first-party inventory on its platform, it does not compete with third-party inventory (i.e., properties and hotel rooms). As such, it does not incur in self-preferencing, because it has nothing…
…Search provides beta access in the US to its Search Generative Experience where generative AI integrates with its legacy service. The self-preferencing prohibition under Article 6(5) DMA does not exclusively…
