Japan: Introduced Act on Improving Transparency and Fairness of Digital Platforms
Description
Introduced Act on Improving Transparency and Fairness of Digital Platforms
The "Act on Improvement of Transparency and Fairness in Trading on Specified Digital Platforms" is introduced in the Diet. The Act introduces transparency obligations for "specified digital platforms providers". In particular, such providers are req…
Scope
Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: e-commerce
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
legislature
Government Body
parliament
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2020-02-18
under deliberation
2020-05-27
adopted
2021-01-26
in grace period