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Articoli Correlati: Antitrust - dominant position - Google

On November 10, 2021, the E.U. Court - with the ruling in case T-612/17 - rejected Google’s appeal against the decision of the European Commission that had imposed the heavy fine of 2.42 billion euros for anti-competitive behavior, ascertaining the legitimacy of the decision of the European Antitrust against the conduct of the company that abused its dominant position, favoring its own comparative shopping service - called “Google Shopping” since 2013 - with respect to the services provided by other competitors, thus confirming the sanction has hit both Google and the parent company Alphabet. The penalized unfair conduct consisting in the systematic “retrocession” of the competing services of comparative shopping, in fact, had determined a systematic distortion of competition not due to the professionalism or competence in the given research sector of the other comparative shopping services offered by others.