Promoting fairness and transparency in the online platform environment
Briefing
21-09-2018
How to promote fairness and transparency in the online platform environment? The Commission's answer to this question can be found in its recent legislative proposal. It stipulates that providers of online intermediation services (e.g. Amazon) and online search engines (e.g. Google search) have to implement certain measures to ensure transparency and fairness in the contractual relations they have with online businesses which use such platforms to provide their services to customers in the EU. This briefing provides you with an appraisal of the quality of the impact assessment, which accompanies the Commission's proposal.
Briefing
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- civil law
- commercial contract
- communications
- consumer protection
- consumption
- digital single market
- distributive trades
- EDUCATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
- electronic commerce
- European construction
- EUROPEAN UNION
- European Union law
- goods and services
- Internet
- LAW
- marketing
- national parliament
- parliament
- POLITICS
- proposal (EU)
- provision of services
- TRADE
- trade intermediary
- trade policy
- unfair terms of contract