United Kingdom: Closed consultation on Amazon's offer to change marketplace rules to address CMA concerns on competition
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Closed consultation on Amazon's offer to change marketplace rules to address CMA concerns on competition
On 1 September 2023, the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) closed its consultation on Amazon's offer to change its marketplace rules to address the concerns raised by the CMA. In particular, Amazon offered commitments to change its treatment of third-party sellers on its UK marketplace platform including that third-party sellers’ product offers can be prominently displayed to customers in the “Buy Box” on a product page when they are competing against Amazon’s products and preventing Amazon from using data obtained from third-party sellers to give itself an unfair competitive advantage.
Original sourceScope
Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: e-commerce
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority
Complete timeline of this policy change
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2022-07-05
under deliberation
2023-07-26
in consultation
2023-09-01
processing consultation