On Wednesday The European Commission imposed on Apple and the finish line of penalties in the amount – respectively – EUR 500 million and 200 million for violation of the EU Act on digital markets (DMA).
The regulations in force since March 2024 are to ensure honest competition on the EU market, including protecting it against Big Techami, using the dominant position on the market to suppress weaker rivals.
The EC applied a fine on Apple, because the concern blocked the application creators the ability to advertise its products outside the APP Store online store. To the finish line, because the company prevented users from freely deciding whether they want to provide their personal data with advertisers.
As the decision on penalties was announced at the moment when There are talks about duties that Donald Trump imposed (then temporarily suspected) between Brussels and Washington (then temporarily hung) on products imported from the EU, in the Brussels corridors it was quickly said that hitting American technological corporations can be an element of customs negotiations on the part of the Union.
The EC denies these reports. Arianna Podesta, a spokeswoman for this institution, assured the briefing on Wednesday that “The enforcement of law and trade talks have nothing to do with each other“.
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Similarly, the head of IMCO, the German MEP of Green Anna Cavazzini, who said that “”Wednesday's decision is by no means the beginning of the technological war in response to the inconsistent Trump's tariff policy, only the consistent implementation of the existing EU law“.
She added that companies can easily avoid fines – they only need to comply with European law.
