Examples of P2B Regulation in a sentence
This feature of online platforms means that the fairness, transparency and redress rights and obligations that the P2B Regulation provides are necessarily high-level and principles-based.
Some respondents to the OPC – across different stakeholder categories – considered that there was no need for the DMA and that the Commission should rather reassess the situation after the P2B Regulation had shown its effects.
As indicated in the Inception Impact Assessment, an option of amending the P2B Regulation was considered.
Therefore, an option based on the P2B Regulation, targeting not only gatekeepers but all platforms, was discarded as this would constitute a mismatch with the problems and their drivers as identified in this Impact Assessment.
Stricter rules under this option would be intrusive for many of the 10 000 entities currently falling within the scope of the P2B Regulation, but could be especially harmful for smaller platforms, possibly also limiting their growth.
The reversed scenario – i.e. changing the scope of P2B Regulation to gatekeepers only – would not be a conceivable way forward as it would eliminate the beneficial impact of its fairness and transparency rules addressed to non-gatekeeper platforms.
Further horizontal rules could be established for all 10 000 online intermediation services and search engines that are currently falling within thescope of the P2B Regulation.
To this end, the new EU-level regulator can leverage the transparency that each of the online intermediation services and online search engines have to provide under the P2B Regulation on practices that could precisely be illegal under the list of obligations – if engaged in by gatekeepers.The Digital Services Act (‘DSA’) is complementary to the proposal for the update of the e-Commerce Directive (‘ECD’) under the DSA.
This EU-level enforcement mechanism is consistent with the enforcement of the P2B Regulation.
From 12 July 2020, these measures will need to follow the procedures for restriction, suspension and termination in Article 4 of the P2B Regulation.