PROBLEMS OF ABUSE OF DOMINANT POSITION IN THE DIGITAL MARKET: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE
Keywords:
digital economy, digital market, dominance, abuse of dominance, digital platform, network effectAbstract
Today, in many countries, the issue of improving existing norms and legal mechanisms in the field of legal regulation of digital markets is before the antimonopoly authorities. When resolving this issue, first of all, it is necessary to give a general legal definition of the concept of a digital market, to distinguish it from traditional commodity markets and to identify its specific features. The rapid development of digital markets also has a direct impact on the behavior of companies operating on it. In digital markets, there are instances where a few large enterprises engage in anti-competition activities against other competing entities, mainly due to their intellectual capacity, strong network effects, and non-substitutive goods and services. These include unreasonably refusing to enter into contracts, driving out competitors by setting monopolistically low prices in the market, providing customers with digital goods and services at zero cost, and you can add limiting their work with other competitors by entering into contracts with their customers on special terms. Many countries now include concepts such as the digital market and abuse of digital market dominance in their competition laws. In practice, defining the concept of dominance in the digital market is a rather complicated process. This article analyzes the scientific literature, international organizations, as well as the experience of foreign countries, the concept of the digital market, as well as the problems of abuse of a dominant position in the digital market, and draws appropriate conclusions.
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