The webinar tackles the most prominent issues raised by the digital economy with regard to two main areas of law: competition law and data protection law. From a data protection perspective, it highlights the challenges in terms of data protection enforcement, the loopholes found by the data protection authorities to investigate and sanction the tech giants and the decisions taken by the European Court of Justice on these matters. It also highlights the implications of digitalization for the European economy that have developed so far around the technology giants. Specifically, the emergence of big techs raises many competition law issues. Given the ability of big techs to abuse their technological and data superiority, EU competition law is evolving. The recent case law and the Digital Markets Act (DMA) are important steps in addressing risks posed by big techs and illustrate a trend toward the creation of new big tech-specific ex ante regulatory regimes.
This seminar aims at providing an understanding of the implications of digitalisation for the European economy and the challenges that this raises. By the end of the seminar, it is expected that participants will have acquired a good overview of the main relevant legal issues mainly from an enforcement perspective.
The webinar is aimed at a wide range of civil servants in the public administration. It will be of particular interest for those who work in relevant public administrations and law firms which deal with the digital economy (especially consumer protection authorities and competition authorities).
The webinar will be delivered as a synchronous online training via the platform Zoom. The programme of the webinar is composed by a series of presentations introducing the key legal issues with regard to competition and data protection legislation, followed by questions and answers sessions. At all time, participants will be encouraged to interact as much as possible with the experts.