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Australia: Published 9th Interim Report of the ACCC Digital Platform Services Inquiry (December 2024)

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Published 9th Interim Report of the ACCC Digital Platform Services Inquiry (December 2024)

On 4 December 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published a digital platform services inquiry interim report focusing on competition and consumer issues within the general search service sector. The report revisits the landscape of general search services, assessing the technological, regulatory, and industry changes since its last examination in September 2021, and outlines the current state of competition, the market dominance of large platforms such as Google, and the potential impacts of generative AI on the market. While not proposing new recommendations, the report advocates for reforms to mitigate digital platform-related competition and consumer harms and lists the proposals issued in the September 2022 interim report.

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Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content, platform intermediary: e-commerce, platform intermediary: other
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority

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2020-02-10
under deliberation

On 10 February 2020, the Australian Government directed the ACCC to conduct an inquiry into markets…

2020-10-23
concluded

The ACCC publishes its September 2020 interim report of the digital platform services inquiry, whic…

2021-03-11
in consultation

The ACCC publishes the issues paper on the third interim report of the digital platform services in…

2021-04-15
processing consultation

The submission period for the issues paper on the September 2021 report of the digital platform ser…

2021-04-28
concluded

The ACCC publishes its March 2021 interim report of the digital platform services inquiry, which fo…

2021-07-22
in consultation

The ACCC publishes the issues paper on the fourth interim report of the digital platform services i…

2021-08-19
in consultation

The consultation on the ACCC issues paper on the fourth interim report of the digital platform serv…

2021-09-28
under deliberation

The ACCC announced the focus of the fifth interim report of the digital platform services inquiry. …

2021-10-28
concluded

On 28 October 2021, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued its third interi…

2022-02-28
in consultation

On 28 February 2022, the ACCC opened the consultation on the issues paper for the fifth (September …

2022-04-01
processing consultation

On 1 April 2022, the ACCC closed the consultation on the issues paper for the fifth (September 2022…

2022-04-28
concluded

On 28 April 2022, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued its fourth interim…

2022-11-11
concluded

On 11 November 2022, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) released the fifth i…

2023-03-08
in consultation

On 8 March 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opened a consultation on…

2023-04-05
processing consultation

On 5 April 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) closed its consultation …

2023-04-28
concluded

On 28 April 2023, the Australia Competition and Consumers Commission (ACCC) published its sixth int…

2023-07-10
in consultation

On 10 July 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) initiated a consultation…

2023-08-07
processing consultation

On 7 August 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) closed the consultation…

2023-11-27
concluded

On 27 November 2023, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) adopted the 7th Inte…

2024-03-18
in consultation

On 18 March 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) opened a public consult…

2024-04-17
processing consultation

On 17 April 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) closed the public consu…

2024-05-21
concluded

On 21 May 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published the 8th Interim…

2024-12-04
concluded

On 4 December 2024, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published a digital p…

2025-06-23
concluded

On 23 June 2025, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) published the final repo…