Free competition in the digital economy: mechanisms of protection

Abstract

The article presents various approaches to the concept of ‘digital economy’, offers the author's definition, identifies the features of state protection of competition in the context of digital economy, describes the procedure for conducting economic activities and maintaining competition in the commodity markets in the context of the development of information and communication technologies, reveals the features of the state mechanism for protecting competition in the conditions of digitalization of production of goods and services. It justifies the need to develop a holistic organizational and legal mechanism of public administration, taking into account the processes of globalization of the digital economy, and the need to change legislative approaches to ensure that new entities are taken into account in the field of competition and the coverage of public relations. Analyzing the normative legal acts of the Russian Federation related to the concept of Big Data and the processing of large amounts of data, the authors come to the conclusion about expediency of amending the clauses of the Decree of the President of the Russian Federation ‘On the Strategy of information society development in Russian Federation to 2017 - 2030’ in the part on definition of the digital economy.