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European Parliament Agree on Tough Transparency Rules For Online Platforms

European Parliament Agree on Tough Transparency Rules For Online Platforms

Enterprise & IT Dec 6,2018 0

EU lawmakers agreed on Thursday on rules requiring online platforms such as Google, Amazon and Apple to end unfair practices to businesses and set up effective redress mechanisms.

The European Internal Market Committee voted in favor of beefing up draft legislation to force online intermediation services, such as e-commerce market places (e.g. Amazon, eBay) and search engines (e.g. Google Search) implement a set of measures to ensure that their contractual relations with businesses (e.g. online retailers, hotels and restaurants businesses, app developers) are transparent and fair.

The proposal would also apply to app stores (e.g. Apple App Store, Microsoft Store), social media (e.g. Facebook, Instagram) and price comparison tools (e.g. Skyscanner, TripAdvisor). MEPs decided that operating systems acting as intermediaries between business users and consumers should also be covered by these rules.

The rules approved by MEPs would require online platforms to:

  • explain the reasons for removing goods or services from search results or delisting them;
  • provide a description of the parameters determining the ranking;
  • disclose, when displaying the results, whether a ranking has been influenced by direct or indirect remuneration, among other factors;
  • provide business users with anonymised information regarding their online reputation (ratings and reviews), which could help them to improve their performance;
  • make the terms and conditions clear and intelligible; in cases where changes to the terms and conditions require the business user to make significant technical adjustments to their goods or services, the notice period should be at least 30 days instead of 15 days;
  • not disclose the data generated by the transactions of a business user to third parties for commercial purposes without consent;
  • put an end to the unfair trading practices listed in this regulation;
  • not restrict traders’ ability to offer the same goods and services to consumers under different or the same conditions through other online intermediation services;
  • set up an internal complaints-handling system (small platforms would be exempted) and facilitate out-of-court dispute resolution.

The proposal would also give businesses the possibility to sue platforms collectively, if they fail to deal with complaints properly.

Christel Schaldemose (S&D, DK), who is steering this legislation through Parliament, said: "With this regulation, we will ensure a fair and transparent future for online platforms, which both traditional businesses, online platforms as well as consumers will benefit from.

“Online platforms are playing an increasingly important role for both businesses and consumers. Therefore, our aim is to ensure a level playing field without any unfair trading practices. This regulation will definitely make the relationship between the platforms and the businesses more fair and more transparent, which ultimately will be to the advantage of the consumer”, she added.

European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager is also looking into how Amazon uses merchants’ data to make copycat products.

The European Parliament will now begin talks with the European Commission and EU countries to thrash out a common position before it comes law, unless other lawmakers challenge the committee’s vote at the general assembly next week.

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