Apart from the fast changing landscape described above, regulation of e-commerce and platform business shows an increasing convergence of different areas of law. This is in particular true for antitrust, unfair competition, data protection and consumer protection laws.

This panel will focus on relevant questions and trends for the set-up of distribution systems against a back-drop of converging or in some cases diverging and conflicting laws (e.g., consumer protection and prohibition against geoblocking, data protection in platform businesses and the melding of antitrust and unfair competition law aspects in B2B relationship in the distribution chain).