Zhongxin Finance, January 19. According to the website of the National Development and Reform Commission on the 19th, recently, nine departments including the National Development and Reform Commission issued several opinions on promoting the healthy and sustainable development of the platform economy, which proposed to investigate and deal with monopoly and unfair competition in the platform economy according to law. behavior.
The opinions mentioned that it is necessary to strictly investigate and deal with monopoly agreements in the platform economy, abuse of market dominance and illegal implementation of concentration of operators.
Increase the crackdown on the illegal operations of platform companies in the travel field.
Strengthen tax assistance obligations such as reporting tax-related information of platform companies, strengthen tax supervision of platform companies, and investigate and punish tax-related violations such as false invoicing and tax evasion in accordance with the law.
Strengthen the management and supervision of platform deposits, prepayments, security deposits and other expenses.
At the same time, strengthen the supervision of the payment field, disconnect the improper connection between payment instruments and other financial products, govern the exclusive or "choose one" behavior in the payment process in accordance with the law, and strengthen the supervision of the abuse of the market dominance of non-bank payment services. Introduce regulations on non-bank payment institutions.
Strictly regulate platform companies' investment in financial institutions and local financial organizations, and urge platform companies and their holding and shareholding financial institutions to strictly implement capital and leverage ratio requirements.
The opinion also explores data and algorithm security supervision, and severely cracks down on illegal acts such as platform companies collecting personal information beyond the scope and calling personal information beyond their authority.
Strictly control the behavior of unnecessary data collection, and crack down on data abuse such as black market data transactions and big data killing in accordance with laws and regulations.
Seriously investigate and deal with illegal and illegal activities such as the use of algorithms to falsify information content, disseminate negative harmful information and vulgar and inferior content, traffic hijacking, and fake account registration.
In terms of establishing an orderly and open platform ecology, the opinions put forward that the platform should promote ecological opening in an orderly manner in accordance with laws and regulations, provide services fairly and externally in accordance with unified rules, and must not be maliciously incompatible, or set unreasonable procedural requirements.
Platform operators shall not take advantage of data, traffic, technology, market, and capital to restrict the independent operation of other platforms and applications.
The opinions also mentioned that the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms should be strengthened, and policies and measures related to the protection of the rights and interests of workers in new employment forms such as online delivery workers and online car drivers should be implemented.
Guide platform companies to strengthen negotiations with workers in new employment forms, and rationally formulate systems and algorithm rules that directly involve labor rights and interests, such as order allocation, piece-rate unit price, and commission ratio, and publish them publicly to ensure that the system and rules are open and transparent.
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