On Tuesday 5 April, our Director General, Bruno Liebhaberg, moderated the panel “Setting the right institutional framework to address the cross-cutting challenges of digital platforms” at the OECD Experts’ Meeting on Institutions and Regulatory Governance of Digital Platforms.
In the context of the growing expectation for governments to ensure that the digital transformation works in favour of consumers, users and citizens, this expert panel addressed the effectiveness of existing regulatory frameworks – highlighting the key role of better regulation tools for developing fit-for-purpose regulatory strategies.
In the panel discussion, Bruno Liebhaberg was joined by speakers Camilla Bustani (Director, International Policy, Ofcom), Amelia Fletcher (Professor of Competition Policy, Norwich Business School), Mark Niefer (Deputy chief, Antitrust Division, US Department of Justice) and Anne Yvrande Billon (Director of Economic, Market and Digital Affairs, France’s Electronic Communications, Postal and Print media distribution Regulatory Authority and Chair of the OECD Network of Economic Regulators).
The topics covered by the panel included how interplays between competition concerns and the need for ex-ante regulation are being taken on board, and if there is a need to create new independent national authorities and/or networks. They also discussed how cooperation mechanisms – across sectors or borders – are enabling coherent approaches for the effective regulation of digital platforms.
The Experts’ Meeting gathered participants from several OECD policy communities, such as the Regulatory Policy Committee, Public Governance Committee, the Network of Economic Regulators, the Competition Committee, the Committee on Digital Economy Policy and other relevant working groups. Invitees also included key experts from academia, think tanks and international organisations.
