{"id":1643073,"date":"2022-09-16T14:35:01","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643073"},"modified":"2022-09-16T14:36:05","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T18:36:05","slug":"amazon-may-have-to-tweak-proposals-for-ending-business-practices-probes-eus-vestager-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-may-have-to-tweak-proposals-for-ending-business-practices-probes-eus-vestager-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon may have to tweak proposals for ending business practices probes, EU\u2019s Vestager says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-may-have-to-tweak-proposals-for-ending-business-practices-probes-eus-vestager-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1643073&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>By Foo Yun Chee<\/p>\n<p>BRUSSELS (Reuters) \u2013     Amazon may have to tweak its proposals to end two investigations into its business practices, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Friday following feedback from third parties on the issue.<\/p>\n<p>In July the U.S. online retailer said it would set up a data silo, preventing its retail arm from using data from its marketplace to make competing private label products.<\/p>\n<p>It will also end preferential treatment for itself and treat sellers equally when ranking their offers for the \u201cbuy box\u201d on its website that generates the bulk of its sales.<\/p>\n<p>Vestager had given third parties until Sept. 9 to provide feedback before deciding whether to accept the proposals.<\/p>\n<p>A group of 11 non-governmental bodies and pan-European consumers\u2019 organisation BEUC have criticised Amazon\u2019s offer, urging the European Commission to demand adjustments to it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are now in the process of assessing that feedback, some of which pointed to potential improvements on several points,\u201d Vestager told a conference in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Vestager also addressed the European Commission\u2019s investigation of Alphabet Google\u2019s digital advertising business, saying she was cooperating with her U.S. counterpart on the issue. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are also in close contact with the DOJ (Department of Justice) in the context of our investigation of Google ad tech,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is at a preliminary stage.<\/p>\n<p>Vestager, who earlier this year pushed through landmark EU rules to rein in Big Tech, urged U.S. lawmakers to pass a measure called the American Innovation and Choice Online Act which bars tech giants from giving preference to their own businesses on their websites.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is for Congress to decide, of course, but in the absence of this kind of legislative push, there is a risk of regulatory fragmentation \u2013 pointing once again to the ever more important role of cooperation across our jurisdictions, such as our cooperation with the DOJ on Google,\u201d Vestager said.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Editing by Susan Fenton)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/amazon-may-have-to\/amazon-logo-at-the-companys-logistics-center-in-bretigny-sur-orge\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F0ZO-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F0ZO-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/v3.oann.com\/amazon-may-have-to\/file-photo-interview-of-eu-antitrust-chief-margrethe-vestager-2\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F0ZJ-BASEIMAGE.jpg\" alt=\"tagreuters.com2022binary_LYNXMPEI8F0ZJ-BASEIMAGE\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) \u2013 Amazon may have to tweak its proposals to end two investigations into its business practices, EU antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager said on Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1643073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1643073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1643073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1643073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}