Amazon has launched a authorized problem towards its inclusion in a gaggle of firms topic to robust European Union on-line content material guidelines, in a transfer that expertise specialists have stated could immediate different tech giants to comply with go well with.
Amazon’s problem on the Luxembourg-based Normal Court docket, Europe’s second highest, is the primary by a Massive Tech firm and got here two weeks after German on-line retailer Zalando sued the European Fee over the identical subject.
Underneath the Digital Companies Act (DSA), which got here into pressure final yr, 19 on-line platforms and engines like google had been labelled as very massive on-line platforms (VLOP) as they’ve greater than 45 million customers. The VLOP designation requires firms to do extra to sort out unlawful on-line content material.
“If the VLOP designation had been to be utilized to Amazon and to not different massive retailers throughout the EU, Amazon can be unfairly singled out and compelled to satisfy onerous administrative obligations that do not profit EU customers,” an Amazon spokesperson stated.
The U.S. firm stated it’s not the most important retailer in any of the EU nations the place it operates and that its greater rivals in these nations haven’t been designated as such.
“Amazon would not match this description of a ‘Very Giant On-line Platform’ beneath the DSA and subsequently shouldn’t be designated as such,” the spokesperson stated.
The corporate requested the Normal Court docket to annul its designation. The EU government didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
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