Big Data, Big Target for EU Antitrust Enforcement?

In her new five-year mandate as Competition Commissioner, Commission Executive Vice-President Vestager will be considering changes to EU antitrust enforcement in relation to big data in several respects: the role of data in defining markets and assessing market power; imposing data-access remedies in abuse-of-dominance cases; and clarifying rules on sharing and pooling data. In merger review, pressure for reform is coming from many directions, but (perhaps surprisingly) not particularly in relat