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Brussels, Belgium – 10 September 2024
1. View of Agustín Reyna, BEUC Director General
2. Close of logo of BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Agustín Reyna, Director General, BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation:
"From the European consumer perspective, we are very happy with the outcome of the Court of Justice. This judgment puts an end to over a decade of legal battle against Google in Europe in relation to comparison shopping services. So we are actually delighted that it is a good outcome for all European consumers at the end of the day."
4. Mid of Reyna
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Agustín Reyna, Director General, BEUC, the European Consumer Organisation:
"The fact that we now we get clarity from the court, that means that many smaller companies or rivals will be able to go to different comparison shopping sites. They don’t need to depend on Google to reach out to customers, and that offers great opportunities for everybody in the in the EU wishing or wanting to reach out to to customers through comparison shopping sites."
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Google, Mountain View, California – 3 February 2023
6. Various exteriors of Google headquarters
STORYLINE:
Google lost its final legal challenge on Tuesday against a European Union penalty for giving its own shopping recommendations an illegal advantage over rivals in search results, ending a long-running antitrust case that came with a whopping fine.
The European Union’s Court of Justice upheld a lower court’s decision, rejecting the company’s appeal against the 2.4 billion euro ($2.7 billion) penalty from the European Commission, the 27-nation bloc’s top antitrust enforcer.
The commission punished the Silicon Valley giant in 2017 for unfairly directing visitors to its own Google Shopping service to the detriment of competitors.
It was one of three multibillion-euro fines that the commission imposed on Google in the previous decade as Brussels started ramping up its crackdown on the tech industry.
European consumer group BEUC hailed the court’s decision, saying it shows how the bloc’s competition law “remains highly relevant" in digital markets.
"The fact that we now we get clarity from the court, that means that many smaller companies or rivals will be able to go to different comparison shopping sites," director general Agustín Reyna said. "They don’t need to depend on Google to reach out to customers, and that offers great opportunities for everybody in the in the EU wishing or wanting to reach out to to customers through comparison shopping sites."
Google is still appealing two other EU antitrust penalties, which involved its Android mobile operating system and AdSense advertising platform.
The company was dealt a setback in the Android case when the EU General Court upheld the commission’s 4.125 billion euro fine in a 2022 decision.
Its initial appeal against a 1.49 billion euro fine in the AdSense case has yet to be decided.
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