On 14 June 2019 the Council of the European Union adopted the
regulation to address relations between online platforms and
businesses - Regulation of the European Parliament and of the
Council on promoting fairness and transparency for business users
of online intermediation services (P2B Regulation). The
regulation still has to be signed and published in the Official
Journal of the EU. It will enter into force on the 20th day
following publication and will apply 12 months from the date of
publication.
Brief context
Online platforms are strong drivers of innovation and play an
important role, being an important focus of the EU Digital Single
Market strategy. At the EU level the key areas in relation to
online platform business are (i) to effectively tackle illegal
content online and (ii) to address the issues of unfair contractual
clauses and trading practices identified in platform-to-business
relationships (including dispute resolution, fair practices
criteria
