Increasing Antitrust Spotlight on Labour Market Issues in the UK
…has no interest in interfering where self-employed workers and their employers come together to reach a genuine collective bargain and does not expect to stand in the way of such…
Search Results for: "self-preferencing"
Generative AI and the Digital Markets Act on the Rocks
…provisions that relate to the legislator’s concerns around fairness. For example, the application of the prohibition of self-preferencing would be more advisable, since the conditions in which MUM intervenes over…
Apple Mobile Payments: Evaluating the Proposed Commitments to the European Commission
…Watch should also not interfere with the default settings set up by iOS users on their iPhones. Measures against self-preferencing Granting the interconnection itself is not enough. While the…
Main Developments in Competition Law and Policy 2023 – Romania
…to user data and self-preferencing its own ad display services. Finally, the RCC has launched a second investigation in the banking sector concerning an alleged agreement to limit consumers’ access…
Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Private actions, Private enforcement
Tracing Forum Shopping within the DMA’s Private Enforcement: Seeking Equitable Solutions
…itself. The Commission supports this same argument by affirming that the DMA’s provisions bear direct applicability and effect before the national courts and allow the affected parties to claim damages…
Advertising, Amazon, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital Services Act, General Court of the European Union, Interim relief
Amazon’s Interim Relief to Suspend Obligations on Online Advertising Transparency under the DSA: One Swallow Doesn’t Make a Summer
…to similar constraints. While not explicitly mentioned, one might infer that Amazon contrasted itself with eBay, a major competitor not designated as a VLOP. At the core of the retailer’s…
Timely Launch of Antitrust Investigations: The Right of Defence Vis-à-Vis The Effectiveness of Public Enforcement – Are There Any Elephants in the Room? The Word to the CJEU (Case C-511/23)
…not merely find that no limitation period exists, but must satisfy itself that the Commission did not act with unreasonable delay” (Jean-Paul François v Commission, T-307/01, para 46). Apparently, there…
Competition policy, Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, European Commission, Ex ante regulation
A Three-Ring Template: How to Get Away with Exemption, Suspension and Specification under the DMA
…The fallacy of self-executing obligations The corpus of the regulatory framework is embodied by Articles 5, 6 and 7 of the DMA. Officials and academics have pushed the narrative and…
Abuse of dominance, Data protection, Digital, Digital competition, Digital economy, Digital markets, Digital Markets Act, European Commission, European Court of Justice, Germany, Google, National competition authorities (NCAs)
The Appropriation of Article 5(2) DMA: Google’s Commitments under Section 19a of the German Competition Act
…to extract and collect data from its users to build a competitive advantage for itself. As simple and as complex as that. However, in this particular case, it did not…
World Competition, Volume 46, Issue 3, 2023
…third is to argue for the re-criminalization of cartel activity. Ciara Denihan, Collective or Collusive Agreements? An Examination of the Position of Solo Self-Employed Persons under Article 101 TFEU The…