Abstract
Although the EU competition regime is well-established and highly effective, EU policy actors may still need to rethink some of their tried and tested approaches. This is what happened in the context of the European Commission’s planned regulation of online platforms, embodied in part within the Digital Markets Act. This article reviews the interplay of the EU’s competition regime with its relatively new Digital Single Market strategy to ask how a traditional ex-post approach to competition regulation came to be supplemented by a (proposed) ex-ante regulatory approach. Informed by the literature on policy change, the article examines the policy context, the Commission’s experience gained in dealing with competition cases, and the input of lobbyists, advocacy groups and experts, to explain this shift in Commission policy.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 41-57 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of European Integration |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 7 Feb 2022 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was supported by the Education, Audiovisual and Cultural Executive Agency of the European Union, [612044-EPP-1-2019-1-NL-EPPJMO-NETWORK].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
Keywords
- digital single market
- competition policy
- antitrust policy
- European commission
- ex-post regulation
- Europian Union
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