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The Japanese Fair Trade Commission is Planning a RAFT of Proposals that Would Emulat europe ' S App Store Regulations REGARDING BIG Tech are companies such as Apple and Google.
now it can be a public consultation, but the Japanese Fair Trade Commission (FTC) expects to begin to ensure compliance with its large technological rules on December 18, 2025. The consultation was received after the plans were adopted by the Japanese House of Representatives and the House of Advisors in 2024. legislation. All of them are part of the law on competition with mobile software of Japan, and the consolidated document shows that the new law says that Apple and Google should:
- Allow third -party applications
- to allow alternative payment
- do not prefer your own applications or services
- to allow users to allow users to users Choose your default applications
- Allow users to freely move between applications and platforms
- the developers use the same OS functions as Apple and Google
in the new consulting document FTC recognizes that there may be problems of security and confidentiality that affect how & mdash; or if & mdash; Data can be transferred. It also repeatedly recognizes the complexity of proving correspondence.
, therefore, the new documentation also requires Apple and Google to create systems for opening regulatory details. And then open the details of these systems in FTC.
theoretically proposed leading principles for large technological companies can be expanded to cover many such firms. But now Japan FTK is allocating three of what it calls the specified software operators
- apple
- iTunes kk
, which is the second, iTunes KK, is a Japanese subsidiary Apple based on Tokyo. He is responsible for managing Japanese versions of the App Store and other Apple Media.
The Japanese FTC requires that interested representatives of the public also represent the opinions of MDash; exclusively on Japanese and Mdash; By the end of June 13. It is expected that by the end of July the final set of leading principles is expected.
Apple has not commented on the FTC consulting document. However, during the investigations, FTC Apple really defended the rules of her application store, insisting that they were fair and transparent.
