Progress

Current status
under investigation
24 Mar 2021 under investigation
23 Jun 2020 in force
26 Aug 2019 under appeal
06 Feb 2019 in force

Scope

Implementers
Germany
Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Government Branch
judiciary
executive
Government Body
court
supreme court
competition authority
Implementation Level
national

Timeline of events

24 Mar 2021
under investigation

Referral to the European Court of Justice

On 24 March 2021, the Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court (DHRC) suspended the proceedings in the case Facebook v. Bundeskartellamt and referred the case to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) for interpretation of the General Data Protection Regulatio…

Source
Event type investigation
Action type interim ruling
Government branch judiciary
Government body court
23 Jun 2020
in force

Upholding of BKA decision qualifying external data collection as breach of competition law by supreme court

Supreme court overturns the court of appeals and upholds the BKA ruling that excessive data collection and combination constitutes a breach of competition law.

Source
Event type investigation
Action type ruling
Government branch judiciary
Government body supreme court
26 Aug 2019
under appeal

Rejection of BKA decision qualifying external data collection as breach of competition law by court of appeals

Court of appeals suspends the application of the BKA ruling that excessive data collection and combination constitutes a breach of competition law.

Source
Event type investigation
Action type appeal
Government branch judiciary
Government body court
06 Feb 2019
in force

BKA decision qualifying external data collection as breach of competition law

The German competition authority (BKA) rules that excessive data collection by platforms (i.c. Facebook) outside of their own realm (i.c. on Instagram/Whatsapp) and combination of this data constitutes an abuse of dominant position under competition…

Source
Event type investigation
Action type ruling
Government branch executive
Government body competition authority