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The European Court of Justice, Europe’s top court, has upheld a €2.4 billion ($2.7 billion) fine against Google despite multiple appeals.
The investigation by the European Commission into Google’s shopping comparison service decided that the company had enjoyed an unfair advantage over its competitors, and levied a fine in 2017.
Today, Google appealed the decision for the fine with the EU’s second-highest court, the General Court, which concluded the fine would be upheld. The company then took the case before the European Court of Justice, which dismissed the appeal and again upheld the fine.
Google said it was “disappointed” with the outcome and that it had “made changes back in 2017 to comply with the European Commission’s decision.”
Those changes meant that Google, like its competitors, was required to bid for ad slots in shopping search results.
European Court of Justice Takes on Google and Apple
It’s been a landmark week for the European Court of Justice. Today, the court also confirmed that Apple should pay €13 billion in back taxes in Ireland following a European Commission decision from 2016.
This isn’t the only legal battle Google is facing. The tech behemoth is in the middle of an antitrust case against the Department of Justice where it is accused of monopolizing the online advertising market. Online review platform Yelp also recently filed a lawsuit accusing Google of abusing its monopoly in local search.
