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

Thus this panel will focus on relevant questions and trends for the set-up of distribution systems under the specific aspect of converging or even conflicting laws (e.g consumer protection and prohibition for geoblocking, data protection in platform businesses and the melting of antitrust and unfair competition law aspects in B2B relationship in the distribution chain.