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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 …

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…