Our latest Global Trends benchmark compares competition law-based and regulatory approaches to addressing potential issues of market power of online platforms. It covers 13 major jurisdictions, including Australia, Brazil, China, the European Union (EU), India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Singapore, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey and the United States (US). Most of the surveyed jurisdictions adopted or proposed to adopt an approach of competition law combined with ex ante regulation.

In the EU, the Digital Markets Act (DMA) will regulate providers of ten categories of digital services designated as gatekeepers. In the fastest scenario, the European Commission would designate gatekeepers by September 2023 and the deadline to comply with the obligations would be March 2024.

From August 2023, digital platforms operating in Thailand must notify their activities to the country’s Electronic Transactions Development Agency and comply with a series of rules applicable to them.

India’s government is proposing to follow a similar approach to that of the EU. The Turkish Competition Authority (TCA) has called for regulation of the digital market. TCA has conducted 15 decisions and has five ongoing investigations related to digital markets. 

The research includes, among others, recent landmark competition law cases related to online platforms in China (National Knowledge Infrastructure, a leading academic database), the EU (Amazon, Apple, Google, Meta Platforms), India (Google), Japan (Tabelog, a popular restaurant review website), Korea (Google, Kakao Mobility, Booking.com) and the US (Google, Microsoft).

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