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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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2023-04-14 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2200612
Jan Polański
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引用次数: 1
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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2023-03-28 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2195330
J. Mazur
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引用次数: 0
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
European Competition Journal 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
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引用次数: 0
The antitrust privacy dilemma 反垄断隐私困境
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2023-02-11 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2169310
Christophe Carugati
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引用次数: 0
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”
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-30 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2169366
Peter J. van de Waerdt
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引用次数: 0
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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2023-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2023.2168865
Nora Lampecco
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引用次数: 0
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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-28 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156728
Jasper van den Boom
{"title":"What does the Digital Markets Act harmonize? – exploring interactions between the DMA and national competition laws","authors":"Jasper van den Boom","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2022.2156728","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2022.2156728","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"57 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45692193","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156729
Alba Ribera Martínez
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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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2022-12-15 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2156730
Konstantina Bania
{"title":"Fitting the Digital Markets Act in the existing legal framework: the myth of the “without prejudice” clause","authors":"Konstantina Bania","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2022.2156730","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2022.2156730","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"116 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45674870","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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
European Competition Journal Pub Date : 2022-10-10 DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2022.2129766
B. Beems
{"title":"The DMA in the broader regulatory landscape of the EU: an institutional perspective","authors":"B. Beems","doi":"10.1080/17441056.2022.2129766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17441056.2022.2129766","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":52118,"journal":{"name":"European Competition Journal","volume":"19 1","pages":"1 - 29"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44013677","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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