Legal Regulation of Digital Platforms and Antimonopoly Control: Application Practice

The article highlights some conflicts and gaps in the legal regulation of the activities of digital platforms, in particular marketplaces. Currently, in the field of e-commerce, a situation has arisen in which digital platforms (marketplaces) have ceased to play the role of exclusive information intermediaries, transmitting information about the product from the seller to the buyer with remote communication between them under sales contracts. In the doctrine of competition law, the classical approach is generally accepted, according to which an economic entity dominating a market may fall under the criteria of abuse of a dominant position. The "Fifth Antimonopoly Package" makes it possible to improve doctrinal approaches to the establishment of abuse of a dominant position by special subjects. The positions of the FAS Russia, which appeared in connection with the need to regulate complex relations to protect competition in commodity markets, where there are signs of “network effects”, have an important role for the exercise by antimonopoly authorities of powers to intersect monopolistic activities in commodity markets and the formation of a uniform approach in law enforcement practice in cases on violation of antitrust laws by owners of transactional digital platforms. New approaches to the application of relevant legal regulation, including in related markets, have been identified based on the results of an analysis of the norms of antimonopoly legislation, legislation on trading activities and specific decisions of the antimonopoly authority related to the application of Article 101 of Federal Law of 26. 07. 2024 No. 135-FZ “On Protection of Competition”.