Amazon rectification plan supported by EU antitrust commissioner

According to news in the morning of September 19, Beijing time, EU antitrust commissioner Margaret Margrethe Vestager said in a speech in the United States on Friday that Amazon's proposal for two EU antitrust investigations would help address concerns, but may need to be further optimized.

The European Commission has begun to assess industry feedback on Amazon's plan, including how to use non-public data on sellers on the platform, as well as possible biases in allowing sellers to join projects such as gold shopping carts and Prime, Mr. Vestager said.

"Amazon's commitment seems to be related to eliminating the damage and could change Amazon's business model of acting as both a platform and a proprietary retailer," she said. but we haven't done that yet. " The European Commission is "evaluating" feedback, "some of which point to possible improvements in several areas".

Amazon's proposed settlement promises to stop using data from platform independent sellers in its proprietary retail business and to treat all sellers equally in the ranking of "gold shopping carts".

Earlier this month, some civil society groups and non-governmental organizations urged the European Commission to reject Amazon's plan, calling Amazon's own corrective measures "weak, vague and full of loopholes". They said in an email that the European Commission should "continue to actively file antitrust lawsuits against Amazon and propose corrective and punitive measures as needed (based on the Commission's own conditions)".