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Antitrust shrugged? Boycotts, content moderation, and free speech cartels 反垄断耸耸肩?抵制、内容节制和言论自由联盟
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-04-14 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2200612
Jan Polański
ABSTRACT Antitrust and free speech may seem to have little in common. Yet, they may start interacting more often as Big Tech undertakings might have incentives to coordinate their content moderation policies and collectively suppress unwanted information. Such coordination might be desirable, but in some cases it may lead to antitrust and free speech concerns. Against this backdrop, the article attempts to provide a framework to analyse this type of cases from the point of view of European Union competition law. It identifies five types of agreements that may be entered into by undertakings and provides outlines on possible ways of approaching them. It concludes that while content moderation is often seen as a free speech issue, antitrust should not shrug off such concerns as out of its scope. Yet, it also suggests that these types of cases are not straightforward and that both more research and vigilance on the part of antitrust authorities might be advisable.
反垄断和言论自由似乎没有什么共同点。然而,他们可能会开始更频繁地互动,因为大型科技企业可能有动机协调其内容审核政策,并集体压制不需要的信息。这种协调可能是可取的,但在某些情况下可能会导致反垄断和言论自由问题。在此背景下,本文试图从欧盟竞争法的角度提供一个分析这类案件的框架。它确定了企业可能签订的五类协议,并概述了达成这些协议的可能方式。它得出的结论是,虽然内容审核通常被视为一个言论自由问题,但反垄断不应将这些担忧视为超出其范围而置之不理。然而,它也表明,这些类型的案件并不简单,反垄断机构进行更多的研究和提高警惕可能是明智的。
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Who (and why) gets cited by the Commission? The role and quality of expert knowledge in Google antitrust saga 谁(以及为什么)被委员会引用?专家知识在谷歌反垄断传奇中的作用和质量
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2195330
J. Mazur
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to examine the role that expert knowledge plays in the Commission’s decisions concerning digital economy. I propose a typology of functions served by these types of sources based on an analysis of references in the Commission’s decisions against Google: first, providing evidence about the history of technological development and the changes on digital markets; second, explaining the way digital technologies and markets work; third, justifying authoritative claims about digital technologies and digital markets’ characteristics; and fourth, illustrating the story with data on the usage of digital technologies and the shape of digital markets. While these types of sources are important in building “the body of evidence” which helps the Commission to tell the story of competition harm in the area of digital economy, there are situations in which their quality raises concerns in the light of the requirements for evidence.
本文的目的是研究专家知识在欧盟委员会有关数字经济的决策中所起的作用。基于对欧盟委员会反对b谷歌的决定中的参考文献的分析,我提出了这些类型的来源所提供的功能类型:首先,提供有关技术发展历史和数字市场变化的证据;第二,解释数字技术和市场的运作方式;第三,为有关数字技术和数字市场特征的权威主张辩护;第四,用数字技术的使用和数字市场的形态的数据来说明这个故事。虽然这些类型的来源在建立“证据体”方面很重要,这有助于委员会讲述数字经济领域竞争危害的故事,但在某些情况下,根据证据要求,它们的质量引起了人们的关注。
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Big tech’s acquisition challenge to EU merger control 大型科技公司对欧盟并购控制的收购挑战
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-03-26 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2193454
C. Hutchinson, D. Treščáková, Anna Alexandrovna Berdnikova, Dmitry Sergeevich Samorodeskii, D. Lobanov, S. I. Semtsiva
ABSTRACT In recent years, there has been a tidal wave of merger filings involving large digital firms acquiring low turnover but high value start-ups. The vast majority of those transactions have flown under the radar of EU and National Competition Authorities and, among the few which have been reviewed, none has been blocked. Competition scholars wonder whether there has been a systematic bias towards under-enforcement against acquisitions of start-ups by already dominant tech firms. Some Member States are calling for a reform of the EU merger control’s notification system and an adaptation of the substantive test to effectively address cases of potentially predatory acquisitions.
摘要近年来,大型数字公司收购营业额低但价值高的初创企业的并购申请潮此起彼伏。这些交易中的绝大多数都在欧盟和国家竞争管理局的监督下进行,在少数经过审查的交易中,没有一笔被阻止。竞争学者们想知道,对于已经占据主导地位的科技公司收购初创企业,是否存在系统性的执法不足倾向。一些成员国呼吁改革欧盟合并控制的通知系统,并调整实质性测试,以有效处理潜在的掠夺性收购案件。
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The antitrust privacy dilemma 反垄断隐私困境
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-02-11 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2169310
Christophe Carugati
ABSTRACT Antitrust cases related to privacy are on the agenda of many competition authorities, including Europe and the United States. Antitrust and privacy is thus “one of the big topics of the year”, as stated by the former President of the French competition authority. While some antitrust cases concern a reduction in privacy protection, others concern an increase in privacy protection. In other words, user privacy can decrease or increase due to alleged anticompetitive practices. An antitrust privacy dilemma? From a law and economics standpoint, the paper solves this dilemma and proposes a new way of resolving antitrust cases related to privacy. Section 2 analyses the dilemma. It proposes an analytical framework. Section 3 proposes a new way of resolving cases. It suggests a coordinated participative approach with competition and non-competition regulators and stakeholders to address competition and privacy concerns with tailored remedies to what is necessary without eliminating pro-privacy effects.
摘要与隐私相关的反垄断案件已被包括欧洲和美国在内的许多竞争主管部门列入议程。因此,正如法国竞争管理局前主席所说,反垄断和隐私是“今年的大话题之一”。虽然一些反垄断案件涉及隐私保护的减少,但另一些案件涉及隐私权保护的增加。换句话说,由于所谓的反竞争行为,用户隐私可能会减少或增加。反垄断隐私困境?本文从法律和经济学的角度解决了这一困境,并提出了解决隐私反垄断案件的新途径。第二节分析了这一困境。它提出了一个分析框架。第3节提出了解决案件的新方法。它建议与竞争和非竞争监管机构以及利益相关者采取协调参与的方法,在不消除有利于隐私的影响的情况下,通过量身定制的补救措施来解决竞争和隐私问题。
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From monocle to spectacles: competition for data and “data ecosystem building” 从单片眼镜到眼镜:数据竞争与“数据生态系统建设”
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2169366
Peter J. van de Waerdt
ABSTRACT “Data ecosystem” companies on the digital market are unique in that they attain market power through their combination of personal data across many markets. Due to strong network effects of personal data, exploited on a conglomerate level, competition has moved beyond competition on the market and even beyond competition for the market: there is now competition for data. Consequently, we must reconsider not only the traditional concept of market power and market definition, but even the competitive analysis of alleged abuses. Therefore, the Commission’s singular focus on anti-competitive foreclosure does not do justice to the complex competitive effects of data ecosystems’ conduct. Only by fundamentally integrating competitive assessment with personal data protection can we understand data ecosystems and their role in the digital landscape. In order to fully capture the anti-competitive effects and harm done to consumer welfare, we must consider “data ecosystem building” as its own theory of harm.
摘要:数字市场上的“数据生态系统”公司的独特之处在于,它们通过将多个市场的个人数据结合起来,获得了市场力量。由于个人数据的强大网络效应,在企业集团层面上被利用,竞争已经超越了市场竞争,甚至超过了市场竞争:现在是数据竞争。因此,我们不仅必须重新考虑市场力量和市场定义的传统概念,而且必须重新考虑对所谓滥用行为的竞争分析。因此,委员会对反竞争止赎的单一关注并不能公正地反映数据生态系统行为的复杂竞争影响。只有从根本上将竞争评估与个人数据保护相结合,我们才能了解数据生态系统及其在数字环境中的作用。为了充分捕捉反竞争效应和对消费者福利的危害,我们必须将“数据生态系统建设”视为其自身的危害理论。
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Dissonance in the European competition law regime of insufficient individual rivalry: the New Competition Tool as a glimmer of hope 欧洲竞争法制度中个人竞争不足的不和谐:作为一线希望的新竞争工具
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2168865
Nora Lampecco
ABSTRACT The CK Telecoms judgement shed the light on the difficulties to apprehend unilateral effects, aka insufficient individual rivalry, in the context of a merger. This paper examines the overall European competition law framework applicable to these effects. After underlining the difficulties related to their apprehension by the competition authorities, the adequacy of the solely ex ante-based European competition regime will be assessed as well as the use of the New Competition Tool as an option to solve the identified drawbacks.
摘要CK Telecoms的判决揭示了在合并的背景下理解单方面影响(即个人竞争不足)的困难。本文考察了适用于这些影响的整个欧洲竞争法框架。在强调了与竞争主管部门担心这些问题有关的困难之后,将评估完全以事前为基础的欧洲竞争制度的充分性,以及使用新的竞争工具作为解决已查明缺陷的一种选择。
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What does the Digital Markets Act harmonize? – exploring interactions between the DMA and national competition laws 《数字市场法案》协调了什么?-探索DMA与国家竞争法之间的相互作用
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156728
Jasper van den Boom
ABSTRACT This article focuses on the interactions between the Digital Markets Act (DMA) and the laws and competition frameworks of Member States. Specifically, the article sets out three different interpretations on the text of articles 1 (5) and (6) of the DMA, which govern interactions between the DMA and national law and competition policy. The article identifies a narrow, broader, and broadest interpretation of the legal interests protected under the DMA. Each interpretation creates different harmonization effects. The article argues that the narrow and broader interpretations allow for significant divergence between national rules, creating the risk of regulatory fragmentation. The broadest interpretation would allow competition authorities and courts to weigh the interests protected in the DMA against national interests and create greater convergence of laws and competition policy in the Digital Single Market. The article also proposes ways forward for the implementation and enforcement of the DMA and national competition laws.
本文重点讨论了《数字市场法案》(DMA)与成员国法律和竞争框架之间的相互作用。具体来说,该条规定了对DMA第1(5)和(6)条文本的三种不同解释,这些条款规定了DMA与国家法律和竞争政策之间的相互作用。本文确定了DMA所保护的法律利益的狭义、广义和最广泛的解释。每种解释都会产生不同的和谐效果。这篇文章认为,狭义和广义的解释允许国家规则之间存在重大分歧,从而造成监管分裂的风险。最广泛的解释将允许竞争管理机构和法院权衡DMA所保护的利益与国家利益,并在数字单一市场中创造更大的法律和竞争政策趋同。文章还对DMA和国家竞争法的实施和执行提出了建议。
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An inverse analysis of the digital markets act: applying the Ne bis in idem principle to enforcement 《数字市场法》的逆向分析:将一罪不二审原则应用于执行
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156729
Alba Ribera Martínez
ABSTRACT On 18 July 2022, the Council gave its final approval of the Digital Market Act’s final text. Notwithstanding the amendments following the initial proposal published by the European Commission on 15 December 2020, the main objectives of the DMA have remained untouched and separate from the objectives pursued by competition rules. In the interim, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) issued its preliminary rulings on the bpost and Nordzucker cases, with particularly relevant consequences concerning the application of the double jeopardy principle. The potential remedies and obligations imposed on the main digital platforms both under Articles 5 to 7 of the DMA and under competition law rules will overlap and create a risk of incoherent enforcement, especially on the side of the European Commission. Against this background, the paper strives to draw out the narrow enforcement gap left for competition authorities. In addition, the paper highlights a number of alternatives open to competition authorities when enforcing competition law rules on digital markets, namely the segmentation of its enforcement efforts depending on the type of service concerned in each case.
2022年7月18日,理事会最终批准了《数字市场法案》的最终文本。尽管在欧盟委员会于2020年12月15日公布的初步提案之后进行了修订,但DMA的主要目标保持不变,并与竞争规则所追求的目标分开。在此期间,欧洲联盟法院(欧洲法院)就bpost和Nordzucker案件发表了初步裁决,对双重危险原则的适用产生了特别相关的影响。根据DMA第5条至第7条以及竞争法规则,对主要数字平台施加的潜在补救措施和义务将重叠,并造成执法不连贯的风险,尤其是在欧盟委员会方面。在此背景下,本文力求找出留给竞争主管部门的狭窄执法差距。此外,本文还强调了竞争管理机构在执行数字市场竞争法规则时可以选择的一些替代方案,即根据每种情况下所涉及的服务类型对执法工作进行细分。
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引用次数: 2
Fitting the Digital Markets Act in the existing legal framework: the myth of the “without prejudice” clause 将《数字市场法》纳入现有法律框架:“无偏见”条款的神话
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156730
Konstantina Bania
ABSTRACT The Digital Markets Act (DMA), an EU Regulation establishing obligations for gatekeeper platforms in order to protect fairness and contestability in digital markets, will soon start to apply. In addition to the DMA, other (EU and national) instruments regulate platform conduct. Though the DMA explicitly provides that it will apply without prejudice to those other instruments, it is doubted whether it will merely complement them. In certain cases, the DMA may qualify as lex specialis, thereby prevailing over other regulations. In other cases, based on the principle of supremacy, the DMA may override national instruments that pursue legitimate interests other than fairness and contestability. There may also be occasions where the DMA may render certain tools devoid of purpose when this was not the intention of the legislator. In all the above cases, the DMA would not complement (but could possibly endanger) the effectiveness of the existing regime. Given the avalanche of legislative proposals for platforms, addressing potential conflicts between the DMA and other rules is essential to protect legal certainty and to ensure that the regulatory regime that governs harmful platform conduct reaches its full potential.
数字市场法案(DMA)是一项欧盟法规,为保护数字市场的公平性和可竞争性,确立了看门人平台的义务,该法案将很快开始适用。除了DMA之外,还有其他(欧盟和国家)规范平台行为的文书。尽管DMA明确规定它将在不损害其他文书的情况下适用,但人们怀疑它是否仅仅是对它们的补充。在某些情况下,DMA可能有资格成为特别法,从而优于其他法规。在其他情况下,基于至上原则,DMA可以凌驾于追求公平和可争议性以外的合法利益的国家文书之上。在某些情况下,DMA可能会使某些工具失去目的,而这并非立法者的意图。在上述所有情况下,DMA不会补充(但可能危及)现有制度的有效性。鉴于平台立法提案的雪崩,解决DMA和其他规则之间的潜在冲突对于保护法律确定性和确保管理有害平台行为的监管制度充分发挥其潜力至关重要。
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引用次数: 1
The DMA in the broader regulatory landscape of the EU: an institutional perspective DMA在欧盟更广泛的监管格局:一个制度的角度
Q2 Social Sciences Pub Date : 2022-10-10 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2129766
B. Beems
ABSTRACT The recently adopted Digital Markets Act (henceforth: DMA) addresses the behaviour of so-called gatekeepers by imposing a list of prohibitions and obligations on these platforms. Despite the potential of the initiative, it remains questionable how the DMA fits in the regulatory landscape. The DMA is – at least formally – not a competition law instrument but also differs from sector-specific regulation. This begs the question of how the DMA fits in the broader regulatory context. This paper aims to address this issue by assessing to what extent the DMA is different from “traditional” competition law and sector-specific regulation respectively. The unclarities regarding the position of the DMA in the broader regulatory context result in various difficulties, amongst others relating to the institutional set-up. The second part of this paper addresses these institutional difficulties resulting from the concurrent application of the DMA and “traditional” EU competition law.
最近通过的数字市场法案(以下简称:DMA)通过在这些平台上施加禁令和义务清单来解决所谓的看门人的行为。尽管这一倡议具有潜力,但DMA如何适应监管格局仍存在疑问。DMA(至少在形式上)不是竞争法文书,但也不同于针对特定行业的监管。这就引出了DMA如何适应更广泛监管背景的问题。本文旨在通过评估DMA分别在多大程度上不同于“传统”竞争法和行业特定监管来解决这一问题。关于DMA在更广泛的监管背景下的地位的不明确导致了各种困难,其中包括与机构设置有关的困难。本文的第二部分论述了DMA与“传统”欧盟竞争法同时适用所造成的制度困难。
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