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Michèle Finck
This article examines digital data-driven platforms and their impact on contemporary regulatory paradigms. While these phenomena are increasingly proclaimed as disruptive in many respects, they remain relatively little understood, including in their regulatory dimension. Law-makers around the globe, including the European Commission, are currently trying to make sense of these developments and determine how to regulate digital platforms. In its 2016 Communication on Online Platforms, the European Commission proposed various options for regulating the platform economy, including self-regulatory and co-regulatory models. The Commission�s assumption that self-regulation or co-regulation can replace topdown legislative intervention in the platform economy forms the background of this article. It examines these three options and concludes that, given that command-and-control regulation as well as self-regulation raise significant problems in their application to the platform economy, co-regulation emerges as the most adequate option provided that certain conditions are met.
