数字平台相对优势滥用行为的规制理据与进路

The Rationale and Approach of Regulating Digital Platforms’Abusive Behavior of Their Comparative Advantage

数字平台凭借其依赖性特征产生的相对优势地位,能够对其他经营者形成外部封锁和内部锁定,由此引发的反竞争效应具有相当程度的社会连带性,有必要引入竞争法规制。从数字平台相对优势滥用行为损害的法益来看,滥用行为与反垄断法的结构性基础不兼容,与反垄断法保护的竞争关系不叠合,同时滥用行为涉及对商业道德准则和效能竞争的破坏,彰显了反不正当竞争法的独特品格和法益追求。因此,应建立“以反不正当竞争法为主,行业法为辅”的数字平台相对优势滥用行为综合规制体系,明确将依赖性作为相对优势地位认定的核心,增设数据局部锁定效应的判断标准。基于此,分别完善相对优势地位的定义性条款和相对优势地位专项条款。

Due to the comparative advantage generated by the dependence to digital platforms,digital platforms are able to create external blockades and internal locks on other operators,and the anti-competitive effects arising therefrom have a considerable degree of social interdependence.Thus it is necessary to introduce competition law regulation.From the perspective of the legal interests damaged by the abuse of comparative advantage of digital platforms,such abuse is incompatible with the structural basis of the anti-monopoly law and does not overlap with the competitive relationships protected by the anti-monopoly law.At the same time,the abuse involves the destruction of business ethics and effective competition,which highlights the unique character and pursuit of legal interests of the anti-unfair competition law.Therefore,a comprehensive regulatory system for the abuse of digital platforms’comparative advantage should be established with the anti-unfair competition law as the mainstay and industry law as a supplement.Dependency should be clearly identified as the core of determining the comparative advantage position,and criteria for determining the partial locking effect of data should be added.Based on this,the defining provisions and the special articles of the comparative advantage status shall be improved respectively.