Google has explained to the judges of the Court of Justice of the European Union, for the mistakes made by the Commission in the proceedings which led to a fine of 4.34 billion euros for abuse of its dominant position in the Android. Legal battles continued for more than six years, and is expected to be completed in the next few months.
The investigation of the others are currently being developed
At the end of an investigation that started in April 2015, the European Commission fined Google with a 4.34 billion euros for the first three practices of the antikonkurruese: by request of the manufacturer, to install applications, Search, and Chrome os, prohibiting the sale of equipment, with the release of Google Chrome os, and Android to be other than that it is approved by Google, and the payment of a percentage of the revenue from the ads (only if it is not installed in a search engine's competitive).
The appeal of Google + to the General Court of the European Union was rejected almost entirely. The only part of the decision of the Commission, which is concerned with “the allocation of income has been canceled, because they did not constitute an abuse. Therefore, the fine was lowered to 4,125 billion.
The company's Mountain View, has made a complaint in the Court of Justice and, at the hearing of the present-day champions “the serious errors” made by the Commission during the procedure. According to the lawyers, the Android offers a lot more choice than the apple, and the limits of the assumed not, from the competition.
The final decision will come in the next few months. Google now has lost its appeal and its own against a fine of 2.42 billion euro for the service to compare the prices. Inquiries about advertising on-screen, and of violations of the Law of the Markets, the Digital is still in progress.
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