The EU Commission accepts commitments to remove most favoured nation clauses from e-book distribution agreements (Amazon)

Kmiecik, Andrzej

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4 May 2017

The EU Commission accepts commitments to remove most favoured nation clauses from e-book distribution agreements (Amazon)

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EU Commission, IP/17/1223, press release, Amazon, 4 May 2017

On 4 May 2017, the European Commission (“Commission”) announced that it had accepted, pursuant to Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No.1/2003, to make binding commitments that Amazon offered ending the use of parity clauses in distribution agreements with electronic book (“e-book”) publishers. These

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Andrzej Kmiecik
Van Bael & Bellis (Brussels)

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Andrzej Kmiecik, The EU Commission accepts commitments to remove most favoured nation clauses from e-book distribution agreements (Amazon), 4 May 2017, e-Competitions May 2017, Art. N° 84309

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