Online Retail

The European Commission has charged Amazon for breaching EU antitrust rules by distorting competition in online retail markets. EC said that the US company uses its size, power and data to gain an unfair advantage over smaller merchants that sell on its online platform.

The Commission has found that Amazon systematically relies on non-public business data of independent sellers who sell on its marketplace, to the benefit of Amazon’s own retail business, which directly competes with those third party sellers.