The European Parliament’s Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection will on 5 November 2018 discuss the amendments by Christel Schaldemose (S&D) to the Commission’s proposal for a regulation on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services.
Transparency, the notion of ancillary goods and services, access to data by third parties, mediation and platform observatory is in focus. The Parliament also recommends that the liberty to decide whether a platform’s user is business or individual should not remain with the platform. Following recent developments in Germany, the platforms’ “terms and conditions”, in certain cases should not be allowed to be defined by the platform operators.
If the Parliament eventually votes in favour of even some of the Committee’s modifications, online businesses are to worry.
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