The draft for the 10th amendment of German competition law: Towards a new concept of "Outstanding relevance across markets"?

Oliver Budzinski, Sophia Gänßle and Annika Stöhr

No 142, Ilmenau Economics Discussion Papers from Ilmenau University of Technology, Institute of Economics

Abstract: The ministerial proposal for a 10th amendment of the German competition law particularly addresses abuse control and seeks to tighten this pillar of competition policy against the background of the challenges from the digital economy. Next to extending the classic policy instruments of abuse control, the reform proposal suggests to introduce an additional and novel type of market power: the outstanding relevance across markets (ORAM). From an economic perspective, such an institution is interesting as it emphasizes non-horizontal and less direct anticompetitive abuses of market power. We review what type of cases could be subject to such a concept of systemic market power. Furthermore, we address the question whether merger control could also benefit from an ORAM-style conception.

Keywords: competition policy; abuse control; digital economy; market power; merger control; antitrust (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: K21 K42 L40 L41 L42 L49 L81 L86 M21 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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