companies, and disagree with several conclusions the European Commission made, we have engaged constructively with the Commission to address their concerns and preserve our ability to serve European customers and the more than 185,000 European small and medium-sized businesses selling through our stores. While we have serious concerns about the Digital Markets Act unfairly targeting Amazon and a few other U.S. In a statement, a spokesperson for the ecommerce giant used the opportunity to hit out at an incoming EU law which will reform the bloc’s approach to digital competition concerns by setting up front conditions for the most powerful ‘gatekeeping’ platforms.Īmazon also said it disagrees with “several” of the EU’s conclusions but claimed to have “engaged constructively” with the process - suggesting the commitments it has offered address the Commission’s concerns. Italy fines Amazon $1.3 billion for abusing its market positionĪmazon was contacted for comment on the commitments it’s now offered the EU. The Commission said its preliminary conclusion is that Amazon’s rules and criteria for the Buy Box and Prime are biased - and “unduly favour Amazon’s own retail business, as well as marketplace sellers that use Amazon’s logistics and delivery services”, which its press release warns “may harm other marketplace sellers, their independent carriers, other marketplaces, as well as consumers that may not get to view the best deals”. The EU has been investigating Amazon’s use of merchant data since 2019 - going on to set out formal charges in 2020 when it also opened a second investigation in parallel focused on the Buy Box and Prime program. The Commission is soliciting feedback on the proposed commitments until September 9 before deciding whether to accept them. “This is to ensure that carriers’ data is not flowing directly to Amazon’s competing logistics services.” On Prime: To commit to set non-discriminatory conditions and criteria for the qualification of marketplace sellers and offers to Prime to allow Prime sellers to freely choose any carrier for their logistics and delivery services and negotiate terms directly with the carrier of their choice not to use any information obtained through Prime about the terms and performance of third-party carriers, for its own logistics services.“Both offers will display the same descriptive information and provide for the same purchasing experience. On the Buy Box: To apply equal treatment to all sellers when ranking their offers for the purposes of the selection of the winner of the Buy Box and in addition, to display a second competing offer to the Buy Box winner if there is a second offer that is sufficiently differentiated from the first one on price and/or delivery.Amazon commits not to use such data for the purposes of selling branded goods as well as its private label products,” it writes. The relevant data would cover both individual and aggregate data, such as sales terms, revenues, shipments, inventory related information, consumer visit data or seller performance on the platform.
“This would apply to both Amazon’s automated tools and employees that could cross-use the data from Amazon Marketplace, for the purposes of retail decisions. On marketplace seller data: 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.Today the Commission confirmed the report - summarizing Amazon’s commitments as follows: In recent weeks, reports by Reuters and the FT had suggested Amazon would offer to share more data with rivals and give buyers a wider choice of products in order to settle the EU’s action. It has also offered to revise how sellers can quality for inclusion to Prime and allow them to choose their own delivery firm and negotiate terms directly with the carrier, as well as committing not to use any data obtained via Prime about the terms and performance of third party carriers for its own competing logistics services. Amazon has offered to limit its use of marketplace seller data and make changes to ‘Buy Box’ rankings in a bid to settle antitrust concerns in the European Union, the Commission confirmed today.
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