EU's top court upholds 2018 competition fine against Google's mobile OS
The European Union’s top court on Thursday rejected US tech giant Google’s appeal against a €4.1 billion EU competition fine.
Google and its parent company, Alphabet, appealed the EU General Court’s 2022 judgment, which had largely upheld the European Commission’s original 2018 finding that restrictions it applied in relation to its Android mobile operating system breached EU competition rules.
On Thursday the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) dismissed Google’s appeal against the 2022 ruling, upholding the €4.125 billion fine imposed by the General Court.
In 2018, the European Commission found that Google had applied three types of illegal restrictions in relation to how it operated Android. Google’s anti-competitive conditions and payments to some phone manufacturers allowed it to cement the dominance of its own apps on Android, including its search engine, the Commission said at the time.
