ICCL Enforce Urges European Commission to Address Concentration in AI

11 March 2024

ICCL Enforce along with ally civil society organisations made a joint submission to the European Commission's call for contributions on competition in generative AI. This follows our previous submission to the European Commission that was specific to Microsoft-OpenAI “partnership”.

The submission proposes a number of solutions that the Commission can use to address high levels of concentration and control by the largest tech companies:

1. Making reforms to the EU’s merger control regime to facilitate investigations of AI partnerships and minority investments that potentially fall outside of the scope of the merger regulation, but which can have a significant impact on competition in the market.
   
   
2. Introducing a legal presumption that acquisitions by dominant firms---for example, gatekeepers designated under the Digital Markets Act---would be illegal under the EU’s merger control regime, unless they conclusively demonstrate that they would not create a significant impediment to competition.

See ICCLs related work on artificial intelligence.