The European Commission said, on Thursday 14 July, that it was inviting comments on commitments offered by Amazon to address competition concerns related to its use of non-public data from sellers in its marketplace and possible bias in granting sellers access to its Buy Box and Prime programme.
To address the Commission’s concerns, Amazon offered several commitments (see EUROPE 12599/6).
With respect to marketplace seller data, Amazon commits to refrain from using non-public data relating to, or derived from, the activities of independent sellers on its marketplace, for its retail business that competes with those sellers.
The company also undertakes to apply equal treatment to all sellers when ranking their bids for the purpose of selecting the Buy Box winner and to post a second bid competing with the Buy Box winner.
Lastly, Amazon commits to setting non-discriminatory conditions and criteria for qualifying Prime sellers and marketplace offerings and to allowing Prime sellers to freely choose any carrier for their logistics and delivery services. (Original version in French by Lionel Changeur)