In early December, the EU will unveil ambitious new plans to regulate the platform economy in presenting its landmark Digital Services Act together with new digital competition capacities as part of the Digital Markets Act.
The Digital Services Act will introduce new rules covering a range of areas of the platform economy from content moderation to online advertising and the transparency of algorithms.
As part of the Commission’s Digital Markets Act, the Commission plans to unveil a list of ex-ante prohibited practices by digital gatekeepers, as well as a market investigation tool that could be used to examine how certain markets are prone to failure.
In this event report, EURACTIV brings you the pressing issues driving the debate in Brussels and highlights the concerns of some of those across Europe’s SME community, who feel that too harsh a legal regime in the platform economy could harm future innovation and resilience for smaller startups across the bloc.
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Germany weighs in on EU’s bid to regulate digital giants
Germany has given an insight into its forthcoming approach for regulating the platform economy as part of the EU's Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act, two landmark packages set to be unveiled by the European Commission on 2 December.
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Platforms should be allowed to take ‘voluntary measures’ in content removal, MEP says
The EU should focus on regulating illegal content as part of its upcoming Digital Services Act, which aims to present an ambitious new regulatory framework for online services, but platforms should also be allowed to take ‘voluntary measures’ to remove harmful content, MEP Dita Charanzová says.
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European app makers urge regulators to think outside of the bubble
As app makers, we may not immediately come to mind when discussing the perils of platform regulation. After all, the new competition rules will only directly apply to large companies acting as ‘gatekeepers’. This opinion is the result of a collaboration …