Code of competitive conduct: a new way to supplement EU competition law in addressing abuses of market power by digital giants

Laurine Signoret

European Competition Journal, 2020, vol. 16, issue 2-3, 221-263

Abstract: Digital economy is deeply and irreversibly changing markets’ structures and global competitiveness. This paper deals with the suggested adoption of an additional legal framework as a supplement of EU competition law in digital markets. A co-regulatory and legally binding code of competitive conduct will be signed by undertakings that have a Strategic Market Status. A new-born Digital Markets Unit at the Directorate-General for Competition of the Commission will be in charge of the elaboration and enforcement of the code, together with undertakings having a Strategic Market Status and relevant stakeholders of the industry. The code will target behaviours considered to be especially harmful for the consumers in digital markets such as self-preferencing practices by vertically integrated companies.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1080/17441056.2020.1787625

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