{"id":556950,"date":"2026-07-24T06:31:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/556950\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:31:25","slug":"european-commission-fines-google-1-billion-over-breaches-of-digital-markets-act-jurist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/556950\/","title":{"rendered":"European Commission fines Google $1 billion over breaches of Digital Markets Act – JURIST"},"content":{"rendered":"

The European Commission (EC) on Thursday found<\/a> Google to be non-compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and issued two fines totaling \u20ac890 million.<\/p>\n

Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy Henna Virkkunen commented that the decision sent a clear message: \u201cWe will not hesitate to use our tools to safeguard business and innovation opportunities opened up by the DMA.\u201d<\/p>\n

The DMA<\/a> came into force in November 2022, and regulates the EU\u2019s digital markets. The DMA aims to ensure that digital markets are contestable and fair by regulating \u201cgatekeepers\u201d, or large digital platforms such as online search engines and app stores. Google was designated as a \u201cgatekeeper\u201d in 2023, and the EC opened an investigation<\/a> into its suspected non-compliance in 2024.<\/p>\n

The EC found that Google was \u201cself-preferencing,\u201d or giving \u201cpreferential treatment to its own services, including shopping,\u201d \u201chotels\u201d and \u201ctransport,\u201d over third parties.<\/p>\n

Further, the EC found that Google was \u201canti-steering.\u201d The DMA provides that developers are allowed to \u201cinform customers \u2014free of charge\u2014of alternative\u201d offers and direct them to such. However, the EC stated that Google failed to comply with this obligation, and prevented \u201capp developers from freely communicating and promoting offers.\u201d<\/p>\n

The EC ordered Google to cease and desist its DMA non-compliant activities, and to ensure that third party services are displayed in search results fairly without self-preferential treatment, and to allow app developers to freely distribute their apps and communicate with users within and outside its app store.<\/p>\n

Google indicated to the EC that it will work to implement changes as to how it presents its own services, \u201cshopping ads\u201d, and \u201ccontent related services\u201d. It issues two fines, totaling \u20ac460 million, and\u00a0 \u20ac430 million respectively. The EC stated that it will continue monitoring Google as to how the company implements the changes and complies with the DMA.<\/p>\n

This latest development is part of a broader string of measures by the EC to clamp down<\/a> on giant tech companies such as Meta and Apple to dismantle anti-competitive gatekeeper monopolies and make the EU Single Market fairer for all, especially smaller companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The European Commission (EC) on Thursday found Google to be non-compliant with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":556951,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-556950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=556950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556950\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/556951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}