Establishing ‘Paramount Significance for Competition Across Markets’

Establishing ‘Paramount Significance for Competition Across Markets’

Journal article

1 electronic resource (page 684–699)

Extract Act against Restraints of Competition, Sec. 19a(1); Regulation (EU) 2022/1925, Art. 1(6) second sentence (b) – Amazon Official headnotes (translated from the German by David Wright-Policepayeh) a) An undertaking is of paramount significance for competition across markets if it has economies of scale and resources and a central strategic positioning that enable it to exert considerable influence on the business activities of third parties, or to extend its own business activities into ever new markets and sectors. A paramount significance for competition across markets does not require that the activity of the undertaking concerned poses a concrete threat to competition or already impairs it. b) From the (objective) point of view of commercial merchants, the range of services offered by an online marketplace is not interchangeable with brick-and-mortar sales or sales via their own online shop, even with the supplementary use of software tools, product and price comparison services, paid search engine advertising, advertising on social media platforms and search engine optimisation.

Crossref

GRUR International ; 74, 7, 2025, 2632-8550.

[Oxford, England] : Oxford University Press (OUP), 2025.

English

https://academic.oup.com/grurint/article/72/3/231/6998505

External Online Journals > GRUR