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EU digital 'gatekeeper' law risks overly wide scope, European e-commerce companies warn

By Nicholas Hirst
  • 27 Oct 2021 11:43
  • 27 Oct 2021 11:43
Booking.com, Bol.com, Zalando and other European e-commerce companies have written to EU governments warning that their proposed version of EU rules for "gatekeeper" platforms risks ensnaring too many companies.

"We are alarmed about recent proposals in the Council [of the EU], which define 'active end users' inaccurately as 'visitors' fo

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Nicholas Hirst

Chief Correspondent


Nicholas covers EU merger review and antitrust investigations for Mlex in Brussels. He previously wrote about EU affairs for Politico Europe, European Voice and PaRR. After earning an LLM in European law from the College of Europe in Bruges, he spent a year working in the competition practice of a leading competition law firm in Brussels 2009-10. He graduated in modern European languages from Oxford University in 2006.

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