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Establishing an overarching fairness standard grounded in 'good commercial practice' would consolidate the fragmented EU platform regulatory landscape and proactively prescribe fair operations for consumers, business users, and workers. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.METHODOLOGICAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

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To evaluate the fragmented EU digital platform regulatory framework and propose a unified, overarching fairness standard grounded in good commercial practice.

August 22, 2026Computer law & security reviewOpen Access

A fairness standard in EU platform regulation: Moving beyond fragmented protections for consumers, business users, and workers

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To evaluate the fragmented EU digital platform regulatory framework and propose a unified, overarching fairness standard grounded in good commercial practice.
Conducted a legal doctrinal analysis of current EU consumer protection legislation, sector-specific platform instruments, and previous initiatives for business contractual rights.
Developed a proportionality assessment framework centered on the concept of good commercial practice interpreted through the lens of platform user autonomy.
Identified significant regulatory fragmentation across existing instruments, including the Digital Markets Act, Digital Services Act, and Platform Work Directive.
Formulated a tiered fairness model that applies most strictly to consumers, intermediately to platform workers, and more leniently to business users based on relative bargaining power.

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Legal doctrinal analysis proposes a unified fairness standard for EU platform regulation, suggesting improved regulatory coherence across consumers, businesses, and platform workers.

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Inge Graef (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a895fc4ca7ade938187ea0e https://doi.org/10.1016/j.clsr.2026.106389

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Legal doctrinal analysis proposes a unified fairness standard for EU platform regulation, suggesting improved regulatory coherence across consumers, businesses, and platform workers.

A fairness standard in EU platform regulation: Moving beyond fragmented protections for consumers, business users, and workers

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A fairness standard in EU platform regulation: Moving beyond fragmented protections for consumers, business users, and workers

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