Interinstitutional negotiations on the legislative proposal on relations between platforms and companies will start. After the Council, at the end of November, the European Parliament's Committee on the Internal Market and Consumer Protection granted the rapporteur a negotiating mandate on Thursday 6 December (see EUROPE 12149).
As a reminder, the proposed Regulation requires platform intermediaries and search engines to be transparent about ranking parameters and their conditions of use (including to terminate referencing) and to strengthen the possibilities of redress for an aggrieved company.
Among the main changes, MEPs decided to include operating systems that act as intermediaries between professional users and consumers within the scope of the new text. They also suggested that a black list of unfair commercial practices should be developed as an annex to the Directive. They also chose not to force smaller platforms to set up an internal complaints handling system.
The Business Software Alliance, which represents proprietary software manufacturers, and the e-commerce association both reacted very negatively to this vote, while the other reactions were not yet available at the time of going to press. (Original version in French by Sophie Petitjean)