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Anticompetitive actions on digital platforms

https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-3-59-67

Abstract

Competition is the driving mechanism of modernity. In the context of global digitalization, competition identifies the emergence of new «information products» due to demand. Demand in a competitive environment generates new offers. In the modern world demand estimation is based on such indicators as the number of search queries in Google and Yandex associated with the digital services and activity of the inhabitants of cities in social networks. The emergence of new digital giants identifies the emergence of new laws regulating digital rights and the behavior of competing entities on digital platforms. Anticompetitive actions on the part of digital market entities entail violation of the rights and legitimate interests of both consumers and digital business entities themselves. This article analyzes anti-competitive actions on digital platforms and identifies ways to develop new legislation aimed at protecting competition.

The fundamental purpose of this study is to study and analysis anti-competitive actions on digital platforms, to identify ways to develop the antimonopoly legislation of the Russian Federation aimed at protecting competition on digital platforms in the context of the global development of the digital economy.

To achieve this goal, it seems necessary to consider domestic and foreign legislation on the protection of competition, the provisions of the doctrine, to analyze judicial practice on the identification of anti-competitive actions on digital platforms in the Russian Federation and a number of foreign countries: Germany, Japan, China, to define the concept and meaning of a digital platform.

To solve the tasks set in the article, a number of research methods are used: logical (description, proof, classification), system-structural analysis, comparative, statistical, which helps to separate the necessary from the random and identify the regularity of processes, sociological method – based on the opinions and assessments of experts, formal-legal.

As a result of the study, it was revealed that in the Russian Federation, the legislation on the protection of competition in relation to digital activities needs innovations. Regulatory acts regulating the protection of competition need to be detailed in terms of the introduction of the terms «digital platform», «digital market», and also add norms regulating the criteria for anticompetitive behavior of economic entities on digital platforms and their types.

Conclusion. Antimonopoly legislation does not restrict competing entities in their actions, but only contributes to the favorable development of the competitive sphere.

About the Authors

L. N. Tomilova
FGBOU VO "Kuban State University"
Russian Federation

Ludmila N. Tomilova, Cand. of Sci. (Law), Associate Professor of the Department of Civil Law

Stavropol str., 149, Krasnodar, 350040
Tel.: +7 (861) 268-59-65



A. V. Kornienko
State Housing Inspectorate of Krasnodar Krai
Russian Federation

Anna V. Kornienko, Consultant of the legal support department

Red str., 178, Krasnodar, 350020



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Tomilova L.N., Kornienko A.V. Anticompetitive actions on digital platforms. Legal Bulletin of the Kuban State University. 2022;(3):59-67. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.31429/20785836-14-3-59-67

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