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Where MPs Stand

Sourced briefings on the record of Parliament

Online platforms and the EU Digital Single Market inquiry

Inquiry by the EU Internal Market Sub-Committee, 7 December 2015 to 7 December 2015. Its page on the Parliament website.

Reports and responses

Evidence sessions

  • 12 October 2015: Agustín Reyna, Chief Legal Officer, BEUC, Jason Freeman, Director, Consumer Law at the Competition and Markets Authority, Professor Annabelle Gawer, Associate Professor in Strategy and Innovation at the Imperial College Business School, and Joe McNamee, Executive Director, EDRi
  • 19 October 2015: Steve Chester, Director of Data, Internet Advertising Bureau, Steve Wood, Head of Policy Delivery, Information Commission’s Office, and Des Higham, Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council Career Fellow in Data Analytics/Internet of Things
  • 26 October 2015: David Evans, Lecturer in Law, Chicago Law School and Chairman of the Global Economics Group, and Ariel Ezrachi, Slaughter and May Professor of Competition Law, Oxford University
  • 2 November 2015: Daniel Gordon, Senior Director, Markets, Competition and Markets Authority, Alex Chisholm, Chief Executive, Competition and Markets Authority, and Nelson Jung, Director, Mergers Group, Competition and Markets Authority
  • 2 November 2015: Matthew Fell, Director for Competitive Markets, CBI, Richard French, Legal Director, Digital Catapult, and Antony Walker, CEO, TechUK
  • 9 November 2015: Charly Berthet, Rapporteur at Conseil National du Numérique (French Digital Council), and David Viros, Chief of Staff, Head of International and European affairs at Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority)
  • 9 November 2015: Giovanni Buttarelli, European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS)
  • 10 November 2015: Martin Bailey, Corneliu Hoedlmayr, Eric Peters, DG CNECT, Claire Bury, Vesa Vanhanen and Henning Ehrenstein, DG GROW, Guillaume Loriot and Nicholas Banasevic, DG COMP, and Daniel Dionesie and Michelle Voznick, DG Justice and Consumers
  • 10 November 2015: Vicky Ford MEP
  • 10 November 2015: Professor Daniel Zimmer, Chair of the Monopolies Commission, Germany, and Dr Thomas Weck, Senior Legal Analyst, Monopolies Commission, Germany
  • 10 November 2015: Evelyne Gebhardt MEP and Clare Moody MEP
  • 23 November 2015: Adam Cohen, Head of Competition and Economy Policy for EMEA, Google, and Jon Steinberg, External Relations Manager, EMEA, Google
  • 2 December 2015: Michael Ross, Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Dynamic Action, Josh Smith, Associate Researcher, CASM, Demos, David Alexander, CEO, Mydex CIC, and Steve Wood, Information Commissioner’s Office
  • 2 December 2015: Ms Ufi Ibrahim, Chief Executive, British Hospitality Association, Tim Godfray, Booksellers Association, Carolyn Jameson, Chief Legal Officer, Skyscanner, and Kostas Rossoglou, Head of EU Public Policy, Yelp
  • 3 December 2015: Andrus Ansip, Vice-President of the European Commission, Hanna Hinrikus, Vice-President’s Cabinet, European Commission, and Jörgen Gren, Vice-President’s Cabinet, European Commission
  • 7 December 2015: Patrick Robinson, Head of Public Policy Europe and Canada, Airbnb, and Mark McGann, Head of Public Policy EMEA, Uber
  • 7 December 2015: Paul Misener, Global Vice-President of Public Policy, Amazon
  • 14 December 2015: Hon Ed Vaizey MP, Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills and Culture, Media and Sport, and Baroness Neville-Rolfe DBE CMG, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Intellectual Property and Government Spokesperson, Departments for Business, Innovation and Skills and for Culture, Media and Sport
  • 14 December 2015: Michael Galvin, Head of Regulatory Affairs, Addison Lee