E-commerce & (The Future of) Competition Regulation in Ethiopia

Yohannes Mebrate
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Competition regulation in Ethiopia is relatively a recent phenomenon. With the introduction of a free market economy, Ethiopia has made considerable attempt s to design a modern legal framework for market competition. The Trade Competition and Consumer Protection Proclamation is currently the omnibus piece of legislation that govern s regulation of market competition generally, potentially including competition in online marketplaces. Recent years have seen the rise of e - commerce platforms of various sorts in Ethiopia. But it is unclear the extent to which and whether current Ethiopian competition law is fit for purpose of regulating this emerging marketplace. T he advent of e - commerce gives rise to a number of novel issues that warrant proper competition regulation , including concerns such as the Big Data, network effect, platform neutrality, free offer of products and disruptive innovations. This article examines whether and the extent to which current Ethiopian law attends to these novel issues of market competition in mushrooming online marketplaces. It argues that while the Competition Proclamation and draft laws regulate anti - competitive conducts to an extent, there are still drawbacks with regard to capturing the aforementioned non price competition concerns and other tacit anti - competitive conducts.
埃塞俄比亚的电子商务和竞争监管(未来)
埃塞俄比亚的竞争监管是一个相对较新的现象。随着自由市场经济的引入,埃塞俄比亚为设计市场竞争的现代法律框架作出了相当大的努力。《贸易竞争和消费者保护宣言》目前是一项综合性立法,它一般管理市场竞争的监管,可能包括在线市场的竞争。近年来,各种各样的电子商务平台在埃塞俄比亚兴起。但目前尚不清楚埃塞俄比亚现行竞争法在多大程度上以及是否适合监管这个新兴市场。电子商务的出现带来了许多新的问题,需要适当的竞争监管,包括大数据、网络效应、平台中立性、免费提供产品和颠覆性创新等问题。本文考察了当前埃塞俄比亚法律是否以及在何种程度上关注这些新兴的在线市场市场竞争问题。本文认为,虽然《竞争公告》和法律草案在一定程度上规范了反竞争行为,但在捕捉上述非价格竞争问题和其他隐性反竞争行为方面仍然存在缺陷。
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