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ARTICLE · 16 MAY 2019

Competition Newsletter April 2019

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Competition law news is marked by numerous investigations and sanctions against GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) illustrating the European competition authorities'

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Competition law news is marked by numerous investigations and sanctions against GAFA (Google, Amazon, Facebook, Apple) illustrating the European competition authorities’ increasing concern to monitor the behavior of these internet giants efficiently. The size and market power acquired by these companies has made it indispensable to analyze their practices, in particular under the lens of the prohibition of abuses of a dominant position.

This is the case, for example, of Google that was fined €1.49 billion last March for abuse of its dominant position on the online advertising market (AdSense) after imposing exclusivity clauses in the agreements entered into with third party web sites, preventing its competitors from placing their advertisements on these sites. This sanction is already the third imposed on this operator by the Commission after the fines relating to Google Shopping and Android, totaling to date more than €8 billion for the European Union alone.

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