Case T- 604/18 Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Android) [Archived]

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Case T- 604/18 Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Android) [Archived]

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NOTE—appeal lodged before the Court of Justice in Case C- 738/22

ARCHIVED—this archived case hub reflects the position at the date of the judgment of 14 September 2022; it is no longer maintained.

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OutlineAn appeal to the General Court against the European Commission’s decision of 18 July 2018 finding that Google had abused its dominant position by imposing anti-competitive restrictions on manufacturers of devices and on mobile operators in order to consolidate the dominant position of its search engine and imposed a fine of €4.34bn.
Latest developmentsOn 13 July 2022, the General Court issued its judgment in which it largely dismissed the appeal. However, the General Court annulled one aspect of the Commission’s decision. It found that Google’s revenue sharing schemes with manufacturers did not constitute an abuse because the Commission made various errors in its application of the as-efficient competitor test. Furthermore, the General Court found that the Commission had made a procedural error because it failed to give Google
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