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27.03.2022

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Google Protests 'Eye-Catching'

USD 2.6 Billion EU Fine, Judge
Disagrees
EU Antitrust Regulators Should Also Have Taken Into Account The
Company's Efforts To Settle The Case With Concessions Before They
Changed Tack In 2015 And Sanctioned Google, Thomas Said.
Google's challenge came on the final day of a three-day hearing at the General Court. (Photo Credit:
Reuters)

New Delhi:
Google on Friday attacked what it called an eye-catching 2.4 billion
euro (USD 2.6 billion) EU antitrust fine, prompting a judge to ask how
a rich company can miss a relatively paltry amount. The sparring
underlines the battle ahead for the world’s most popular internet
search engine, with two other challenges against EU antitrust
enforcers to be heard in the coming months.

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The Alphabet unit argued that additional amounts tacked on to the

fine imposed by the European Commission in 2017 to deter anti-
competitive behaviour known as a deterrent multiplier and another
multiplier factor was excessive and unwarranted.
Google's challenge came on the final day of a three-day hearing at the
General Court, Europe's second-highest, as it attempts to overturn the
first of a trio of EU antitrust penalties totalling 8.25 billion euros.

"2.4 billion euros is an eye-catching amount, it might attract the

headlines but it is not justified by the actual facts of this case,"
Christopher Thomas, Google's lawyer, told judges.

He said there should not have been a fine in the first place as existing
case law showed that Google's behaviour was not anti-competitive
while its market shares and the 13 countries where the infringement
was committed did not justify the size of the multiplier.

The Commission used a gravity multiplier between 5 per cent and 20

per cent to Google's 2016 turnover in the 13 EU countries, higher than
the 5 per cent levied on Intel in 2009. EU laws allow for regulators to
apply a multiplier of up to 30 per cent.

EU antitrust regulators should also have taken into account the

company's efforts to settle the case with concessions before they
changed tack in 2015 and sanctioned Google, Thomas said.

"Credit should be given for Google's good faith attempts to find a

solution to the Commission's concerns with its three commitments
offers and the almost 9 months engineering effort spent building that
solution provisionally agreed with the Commission," he said.

Irish judge Colm Mac Eochaidh, one of the panel of five judges
hearing the case and who had a day earlier said the company clearly
committed an infraction, asked whether the size of the fine was as
eye-catching as Google claimed.

"You are one of the richest companies in the world," he said, citing the
example of someone with 120 euros and fined 2.4 euros for littering.
"Would you miss the 2.4 euros?" Mac Eochaidh also wondered about
the power of the court to increase or revise fines, a thought which
Google tried to squash by saying the Commission had not asked
judges to do so.

The court in 2007 broke new ground by jacking up a cartel fine

imposed by the Commission for the first time, leaving Germany’s
BASF AG with a higher penalty.

EU enforcers merely stuck to the rules when calculating the fine,

Commission lawyer Anthony Dawes said.

"The Commission scrupulously followed the methodology set out in

the guidelines. Google's conduct constituted a well established form of
abuse," he said. A ruling is expected next year and can be appealed
to the Court of Justice, Europe's highest.

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2. Written in the Nazi concentration camp 1. Both this opera and Alcina enjoy high critical
Theresienstadt and not performed until 1975. reputations today
4. Often considered to be the first genuine English- 3. Gluck's most popular opera
language operatic masterwork. 5. A comic opera based on a play by Ben Jonson.
9. Noted for the richness of its orchestration. 6. Puccini's last opera was left unfinished at his
14. Both this work and Ariodante were part of death.
Handel's first opera season at Covent Garden. 7. One of the first of Cavalli's operas to be revived
15. Composed when Mozart was 14 and written forin the 20th century.
a demanding cast of star singers.[ 8. Britten's comic opera is heavily based upon use
16. Poulenc's major opera is set in a convent of the ensemble.
during the French Revolution. 10. Last of three that Haydn set to libretti by Carlo
18. First all-Italian opera performed on the London Goldoni.
stage. 11. An early Rossini work, this opera is outright
19. Tippett's second opera, set to another of his farsa comica.
own "recondite" libretti,[212] was inspired by 12. Often rated as Vaughan Williams's finest
Homer's Iliad. opera, this short, fatalistic tragedy is set on the
20. A landmark in the history of British opera, this Aran Isles in the west of Ireland.
work marked Britten's arrival on the international 13. Gluck's "last and perhaps greatest
music scene masterpiece".
21. A short Zemlinsky opera inspired by a work by 17. Widely regarded as the first operatic
Oscar Wilde. masterwork.
22. This opera stands out among Rossini's output
for its frequent ensembles and absence of aria.
23. Rameau's first opera caused great controversy
at its premiere.
24. This Christmas story was the first opera
specifically written for television.

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