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PROTECTION OF THE COMPETITION ON THE DIGITAL SERVICES MARKET

Andrej Mićović

10.55836/PiP_23309A
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The article analyzes the rules contained in the EU Regulation 2022/1925, which seek to provide business users and end users with core platform services and ensure appropriate regulatory safeguards against unfair practices of service providers, who have the status of gatekeepers. When core services are provided by gatekeepers, as persons who exercise significant market influence, the risk of distortion of market competition increases significantly. That is why the Regulation defines a series of measures with the aim of achieving, first of all, ex ante effects on the possibility of unlimited market competition and fairness in the digital sector. With the aim of preventive protection of the digital service marketplace, the Regulation prescribes what the providers of core platform services must not do, or what they are obliged to do and the powers of the Commission in terms of market research. After the conducted research, the Commission can issue an implementing act ordering gatekeeper to stop non-compliant behavior within a reasonable period of time, as well as impose sanctions in the form of fines and periodic penalty payments.

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