Source: European Parliament
Question for written answer E-002348/2025
to the Commission
Rule 144
Pascal Arimont (PPE), Liesbet Sommen (PPE)
On 25 March 2024, the Commission announced preliminary investigative steps under the Digital Markets Act[1] (DMA) into potential self-preferencing by Amazon on Amazon Marketplace.
This announcement came 15 months after the Commission accepted Amazon’s commitments following an investigation’s preliminarily conclusion that Amazon had abused its dominant market position and unfairly gave preferential treatment to its own products and sellers that paid for Fulfilment by Amazon services.
- 1.Does the Commission have any information evaluating the effectiveness and compliance with the commitments it agreed with Amazon in 2022?
- 2.The US Federal Trade Commission has accused Amazon of enforcing price clauses via its automated systems, effectively preventing sellers from providing their products at a lower price off-Amazon. This practice is also under investigation by Germany’s Bundeskartellamt. Such practices are likely to constitute a violation of Article 5(3) DMA. Is the Commission examining Amazon’s compliance with Article 5(3) DMA?
- 3.Amazon’s DMA compliance reports are sparse in detail, especially regarding the effectiveness of the compliance actions taken by the company. Such disclosure is fundamental to ensuring that impacted businesses, consumers and interested third parties can scrutinise DMA compliance and effectiveness. Will the Commission ensure that Amazon’s future non-confidential DMA compliance reports include more meaningful information?
Submitted: 11.6.2025
- [1] Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 September 2022 on contestable and fair markets in the digital sector and amending Directives (EU) 2019/1937 and (EU) 2020/1828 (Digital Markets Act) (OJ L 265, 12.10.2022, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2022/1925/oj).
Last updated: 19 June 2025