Overview
- Presents cutting-edge discussion of the most topical issues in digitalisation and the application of fundamental rights
- Provides a comprehensive review by academic experts and practitioners in the field of EU competition law
- Focusses on unique cross-over between EU legislation on digitalisation, competition law, and EU Charter
- This book is open access, which means that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World (EUNGW, volume 13)
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About this book
This open access book brings together experts from both EU competition law as well fundamental rights backgrounds, discussing the most recent developments in EU legislation on digitalisation. Most prominently, it explores the recently introduced Digital Markets Act (DMA), including a discussion on other related legislative acts and the respective case law. It is aimed mostly at academics and researchers in the area of digitalisation, EU competition law, and the EU Charter, but will also provide some useful insights from practitioners in the field.
The internet has long been neglected and exempt from being regulated at EU level. In particular, this concerns the application of fundamental rights. The specific challenges for the digital sphere are numerous; worldwide scope, easy access, interoperability, rapid technological change, fluctuating market conditions, anonymity, disinformation, lack of traceability and thus enforcement, to name but a few. Fundamental EU values, in particular including democracy and the respect for human rights, have suffered as a direct result of these growing problems in the digital sphere. More recently, however, the EU has started to actively regulate the new technologies in order to avoid European values being undermined by an unregulated internet.
In the specific field of competition law, the development of new technologies has created many challenges and raised questions for the legislator how to regulate big market players: their cross-border nature, vicissitudes, and enormous market powers allow some of them to be able to escape legal scrutiny under the current set of ex-post rules. The DMA now introduces an ex-ante mechanism for competition law and claims to be aligned with the procedural and institutional rights granted under the Charter, which will be scrutinised and challenged by the various contributions in this book.
Keywords
- EU Charter
- Digitalisation
- Digital Markets Act (DMA)
- Fundamental Rights
- Digital Single Market
- Competition Law
- Open Access
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Assoc. Prof. Annegret Engel is a Senior Lecturer and Researcher in EU law at Lund University, Sweden. She holds a Ph.D. from one of the most prestigious law schools in the UK, Durham University. Her doctoral thesis in EU Constitutional Law received no corrections (summa cum laude). She has previously worked for Cardiff University, the Wales Governance Centre, as well as the British Institute for International and Comparative Law (BIICL). In addition, she was selected for one of the highly competitive blue-book traineeships at the European Commission within the Directorate General of the Internal Market.
Prof. Xavier Groussot, Lund University, Law Faculty, Lund, Sweden
Prof. Gunnar Thor Petursson, Reykjavik University, Department of Law, Reykjavik, Iceland
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Directions in Digitalisation
Book Subtitle: Perspectives from EU Competition Law and the Charter of Fundamental Rights
Editors: Annegret Engel, Xavier Groussot, Gunnar Thor Petursson
Series Title: European Union and its Neighbours in a Globalized World
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2025
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-65380-3Due: 07 November 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-65383-4Due: 07 November 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-65381-0Due: 07 November 2024
Series ISSN: 2524-8928
Series E-ISSN: 2524-8936
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: II, 294
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations