EU Court Backs Google's Challenge Against 1.49 Billion Euro EU Antitrust Fine

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Europe's second-top court on Wednesday backed Alphabet unit Google's challenge against a 1.49 billion euros ($1.66 billion) antitrust fine imposed five years ago for hindering rivals in online search advertising.

Europe's second-top court has supported Google's challenge against a €1.49 billion antitrust fine, finding the EU's assessment of the fine's duration incomplete. The original 2019 fine was part of a series totaling €8.25 billion.

"The court (...) upheld most of the commission's assessments, but annulled the decision imposing a fine of almost 1.5 billion euros on Google, on the grounds in particular that it had failed 

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 to take in account all the relevant circumstances in its assessment of the duration of the contractual clauses that it had found to be unfair," the Luxembourg-based General Court said.

The European Commission in 2019 handed down the fine to the world's most popular internet search engine, one of a trio of fines that have cost Google a total of 8.25 billion euros.

The case is T-334/19 Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google AdSense for Search).

Source: https://www.channelnewsasia.com

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