European Commission → approved the named monitoring trustee → Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited
2025-09-23
Official notice records23September2025approval; no report delivery, performance approval or fee payment established.
Researcher access decisions
Who pays and who supervises AliExpress’s trustee
AliExpress must fund the trustee; the Commission approved Ankura and controls its mandate. QA and monitoring reports should travel back through specified channels.
Solid lines: documented in a cited record. Dashed: reported or inferred. Hollow arrows: proposed powers. Choose a connection for its evidence.
Appointment is acquired; mandate, fee payments and actual monitoring reports are not. The trustee may recommend and report, but cannot make product, business or technical decisions. These commitments concern Article 40(12).
What the connections say
6 relationshipsAliExpress — service under examined proceedings → must fund the approved trustee on noncontingent terms → Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited
Provider proposes candidate/mandate and pays fees independent of results. No executed fee schedule, amount, invoice or payment acquired. Commission approval remains separate.
Payment status: Obligation; actual paid amount unknown
European Commission → approves mandate and may instruct or replace the trustee → Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited
Commission may reject/modify mandate and issue compliance instructions; replacement/discharge/hand-over governedC.7–8. No exercised instruction/replacement acquired.
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Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited → must monitor and report without business decision powers → AliExpress — service under examined proceedings
Trustee may recommend measures and promptly report reasonably concluded failure; cannot make product/business/technical decisions or exercise Commission investigative powers. Change notice is not prior approval; experimental changes excepted.
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AliExpress internal access QA/reporting → must send semiannual access counts tests and feedback → Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited
Received/processed/approved/rejected metrics and feedback required; no actual report acquired. Recital174 ongoingQA expectation and AnnexD broader lapse wording remain unresolved.
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Ankura Consulting (Europe), Limited → must submit monitoring reports and promptly flag concluded failure → European Commission
C.9 prints impossible31November2027;recital16730November/C.12 two months.2026cycle not yet ended9September2026; no silent correction.
First cycle ends30September2025, first report due within2months; later cycles endSeptember2026/2027. Company copy may remove third-party confidential material. No actual receipt/report/response acquired.