Kokott’s opinion reinforces the Commission’s view that Google’s conduct \u2014 including pre-installing its search app and Chrome browser, and preventing manufacturers from selling devices running modified versions of Android \u2014 constitutes a form of market abuse.<\/p>\n
While her recommendations aren’t binding on the top court, judges frequently follow advice from advocates general. A final ruling could come later this year.<\/p>\n
The search giant originally received a \u20ac4.34 billion fine in 2018, the largest in a string of investigations into its businesses.\u00a0This number was reduced to \u20ac4.125 billion by the General Court in 2022. Kokott said that the lower court was correct to reduce the fine by \u20ac200 million.<\/p>\n
The lower court backed the Commission\u2019s probe, but trimmed the fine over what it saw as the EU executive’s deficiencies in measuring the impact of the conduct. Google has argued that the court went too far, rewriting the regulator\u2019s own findings about the company’s relationship with device-makers and app developers.<\/p>\n
“Android has created more choice for everyone and supports thousands of successful businesses in Europe and around the world. We are disappointed with the opinion which, if it were followed by the Court, would discourage investment in open platforms and harm Android users, partners and app developers,\u201d said Google spokesperson\u00a0 Mathilde M\u00e9chin.<\/p>\n
The case is C-614\/19 P Google and Alphabet vs. Commission (Android).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kokott’s opinion reinforces the Commission’s view that Google’s conduct \u2014 including pre-installing its search app and Chrome browser,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5174],"tags":[7155,1394,30,2000,299,5187,1699,79851,2441],"class_list":{"0":"post-196732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-eu","8":"tag-antitrust","9":"tag-big-tech","10":"tag-courts","11":"tag-eu","12":"tag-europe","13":"tag-european","14":"tag-european-union","15":"tag-juliane-kokott","16":"tag-markets"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114709223479844244","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}