France’s competition authority has fined Google 250 million euros in a dispute over payments to media outlets for content, the agency said on Wednesday.
The French regulator justified the fine by saying the North American tech giant had “no desire” to negotiate with the media.
In its decision, the Antimonopoly Office also criticizes Google for failure to fulfill the obligations assumed in June 2021, in particular, for failure to comply with four of the seven points that were established in the agreement between the parties.
First of all, he recalls that Google then took advantage of the “transition procedure”, which allowed it not to question the facts censored by the regulator, which even proposed a number of corrective measures to overcome them.
According to the French regulator, Google did not fulfill, firstly, its obligation to negotiate with the media “in good faith”, based on “transparent, objective and non-discriminatory criteria”.
Google also failed in its obligation to provide publishers or news outlets with the information needed to transparently assess their payments for related rights.
He also failed to take the necessary steps to ensure that the negotiations did not affect economic and financial relations with them.
Author: Lusa
Source: CM Jornal
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