Reading Schwab's compromise amendments (Amazon/Apple later, @SebastianLouven ) - an hidden pearl is that "The Commission may also ask one or more competent national authorities to support its market investigation" - also a DPA, of course 🙂
Missing comma between health tracking and financial services (intriguing Recital 64)
And how not to love the possibility of interim measures "where a risk of serious and immediate damage for business users or end-users of gatekeepers could result from new practices that may undermine contestability of core platform services"?
“According to respondents, the prevalence of proprietary technology, leading at times to the creation of “de facto standards”, together with technology fragmentation and lack of common standards, raise concerns as to the lack of interoperability in the Consumer IoT sector”
”The information collected in the context of the sector inquiry on the consumer IoT will provide guidance to the Commission's future enforcement *and* regulatory activity”
Great discussion on diversity and/for innovation in competition policy #tilting2021
Can’t wait to know more about the Common European Agricultural Data Space, @DigitalEU - aptly mentioned here today by @CanAtik1#tilting2021 - it could indeed solve many problems at once...
I tried to operationalise this in a longish work related to vertical restraints gbv.de/dms/zbw/548213… - but that was really *ages* ago (possibly not very useful anymore)