European Commission adopts new EU wide guidelines on abuse of dominance

The Commission adopted its first Guidelines on exclusionary abuses under Article 102 TFEU, replacing 2008 guidance with a workable effects approach that drops the mandatory as efficient competitor test and targets self preferencing by dominant digital platforms.

Reported AI-drafted European Commission press release IP/26/1769, 3 September 2026 (via Jones Day Insights)

What it does not test. It does not itself sanction any company; new enforcement decisions against named platforms would still be needed.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. New EU-wide enforcement guidance tool; no platform's own/operate/law/parts changes itself. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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