Clock is ticking for Commission to wrap major DMA case after preliminarily breach finding last year
The European Commission could be preparing to fine US tech giant Google under the bloc’s big tech rulebook – the Digital Markets Act (DMA) – as soon as next week.
The fine would be on the foot of non-compliance investigations into Google’s self-preferencing practices on Google Search and anti-steering rules on its Play Store, following earlier Commission findings, and is expected to run into hundreds of millions of euros, according to internal documents seen by the Financial Times.
On paper the DMA allows for fines of up to 10% of global annual turnover – or even more for repeat infringements.
The Digital Markets Advisory Committee – a body made up of national competition authorities and the Commission’s competition and technology departments, DG COMP and DG CNECT – which the Commission must consult before issuing fines against DMA gatekeepers is next set to meet on 23 July.
