On February 15, 2016, the NZZ reports on the question of whether antitrust law needs to be adapted to cope with the digital economy (p. 20):
No changes to antitrust law are planned in Switzerland. For the Competition Commission (ComCo), however, the digital economy is a key topic this year. An internal working group will examine by the end of the year to what extent the authority’s practice needs to be adapted. As Patrik Ducrey, deputy director of the Weko, explained in response to a question, this primarily involves questions of market definition and taking into account the fact that in the digital world, a strong market position can be achieved more quickly, but it can also be lost more quickly. This is one of the reasons why the Weko recently (reference) gave a cautious assessment of the joint marketing company of SRG, Swisscom and Ringier, with which the Swiss companies want to stand up to US groups such as Google and Facebook. In Switzerland, the conditions for prohibiting a merger are stricter than in the EU. Some argue that a comparable joint venture in the German market would not have been approved by the Federal Cartel Office.