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CERRE Regulatory Lab: Agentic AI at the Regulatory Crossroads: Competition, Privacy, Security

23 September 2026
12:30
- 15:00
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AI agents are software systems that can exercise an even greater degree of autonomy than today’s widely-used AI systems. Led by CERRE Research Fellow Antonio Manganelli, the workshop will explore the implications of AI agents for competition policy and its intersection with privacy, security, and consumer protection. The discussion will discuss how AI agents offer opportunities to disrupt existing markets, empower consumers and smaller companies and supercharge competition. It will also consider the risks. For example, this new form of “intermediation” could create issues related to decreasing trust, and raises questions about AI agents’ access to users’ data and their devices.

The Regulatory Lab will address the following questions: Will agents decentralise digital markets or create a new intermediation layer? Should policy-makers be concerned about any new intermediation layer being too concentrated? Who controls gateways in an agentic world – and how should this balance the potential benefits of greater competition with protection of users’ security and privacy? Does EU law already cover the competitive agentic risks, or is there a gap? Should a specific legal framework be defined in order to exploit all the pro-competitive potential? And how can competition policy help support a shift towards privacy and security becoming stronger dimensions of competition?

Please note that this is a private event and attendance is by invitation only.

Speakers

Antonio Manganelli
Antonio Manganelli
Research Fellow
and University of Siena

Antonio Manganelli is professor of Competition Law and Policy at the University of Siena, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Law and Economics.

He previously worked at the University of Rome LUMSA as a professor of Antitrust and Regulation, and at the European University Institute, where he was academic coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation.

Antonio has also served in various public institutions in Europe, including the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as Deputy Head of Cabinet, the OECD as a national expert, the Italian Regulator for Telecom, Media and Postal Services (AGCOM), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), and the Research Office at the Italian Central Bank.

Antonio Manganelli is professor of Competition Law and Policy at the University of Siena, where he also obtained his Ph.D. in Law and Economics.

He previously worked at the University of Rome LUMSA as a professor of Antitrust and Regulation, and at the European University Institute, where he was academic coordinator of the Florence School of Regulation.

Antonio has also served in various public institutions in Europe, including the Italian Ministry of Economic Development as Deputy Head of Cabinet, the OECD as a national expert, the Italian Regulator for Telecom, Media and Postal Services (AGCOM), the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the Office of the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), and the Research Office at the Italian Central Bank.

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