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Fines, court rulings and incidents from Europe, North America, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa: 2,207 cases from 44 jurisdictions, each with an official source and checked against that source before publication. Filter by country, area of law and sector. Click a chart to drill down one level.
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by company- Google €2.95bn 66 % · 1 case
- Meta €797.7m 18 % · 2 cases
- Anonymised companies €704.6m 16 % · 14 cases
- DPG Media nv; Mediahuis nv; PPP Belgium bv; bpost nv (Kronzeuge) €11.9m 0 % · 1 case
- MM Grupp OÜ €7.51m 0 % · 1 case
- BT, IMG, ITV, BBC (Sky Kronzeuge) €5.06m 0 % · 1 case
- Nol Universe Co., Ltd. (Yanolja), Yeogi Eottae Company €954,488 0 % · 1 case
- Autobutler ApS €938,174 0 % · 1 case
- SIA "SS" €186,781 0 % · 1 case
- Liga do Futebol Brasileiro (Libra), Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras u. a. (6 Organisationen) €90,565 0 % · 1 case
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When?
per year, by date of decision| Period | Cases | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 2 | €218,989 |
| 2023 | 6 | €33.8m |
| 2024 | 8 | €1.47bn |
| 2025 | 4 | €2.96bn |
| 2026 | 8 | €12.2m |
28 cases
26 Aug 2026 Wolt DenmarkWolt: Competition Council finds abuse of dominant position vis-à-vis restaurants Order
In 2022–2024, the delivery service used a standard clause to prohibit restaurants from being cheaper on their own channels than on Wolt, while at the same time being able to grant discounts without consultation and to compensate customers up to 400 DKK at the restaurants’ expense. The Konkurrencerådet (Danish Competition Council) ordered the practice to cease, required Wolt to inform all restaurants and intends to enforce a fine through the courts.
Platforms with a high market share should have parity clauses and unilateral cost shifting in standard terms reviewed under competition law.
- Authority / court
- Konkurrencerådet (Danish Competition Council)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Konkurrenceloven; AEUV Art. 102
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 26 Aug 2026
- KFST – Wolt has abused its dominant position (26.08.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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8 Jul 2026 Meta Platforms Inc.; Meta Platforms Ireland LimitedMeta: interim orders on remuneration for press content (neighbouring rights) Order
At the request of the press association Alliance de la Presse d’Information Générale (APIG), the Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) imposed interim measures on Meta because its conduct in negotiations on remuneration for press publishers’ neighbouring rights could amount to an abuse of a dominant position. Meta must negotiate in good faith on remuneration for all Meta services from 1 February 2025, provide the information needed for the assessment within 15 days, must not degrade the display of press content during the negotiations and must report to the authority monthly. On the same day a similar decision (26-MC-02) was issued at the request of the collective management organisation DVP.
Dominant platforms must conduct remuneration negotiations transparently and give their negotiating partners the data that makes an objective assessment possible in the first place.
Abuse of market power in remuneration negotiations with content providers
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 464-1 Code de commerce (mesures conservatoires); vorläufige Würdigung nach Art. L. 420-2 Code de commerce und Art. 102 AEUV; Art. L. 218-4 Code de la propriété intellectuelle
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 8 Jul 2026
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-MC-01 du 8 juillet 2026 (Entscheidungsseite) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Décision 26-MC-01 (Volltext, PDF) Decision of an authority
- Autorité de la concurrence, Communiqué de presse zu 26-MC-01 Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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17 Jun 2026 Kangaroo Limited (Keeta)Keeta gives binding commitment to open up its restaurant contracts Order
On 17 June 2026 the Competition Commission (Hong Kong's competition authority) accepted a commitment from Kangaroo Limited, which operates the Keeta food delivery platform in Hong Kong and is a subsidiary of Meituan. The authority was concerned that clauses in Keeta's agreements with partner restaurants made access harder for new and small platforms and softened competition – a possible breach of the First Conduct Rule (the ban on anti-competitive agreements). Keeta had already amended the agreements voluntarily (cooperation with platforms of up to 10% market share without losing incentives, easier switching, no bar on lower prices on the restaurants' own channels and on rival platforms); with the acceptance, these changes are legally binding and enforceable by the authority until 28 December 2026.
Platforms should proactively align their exclusivity and price parity clauses with the standards the authority has already imposed on their competitors.
Exclusivity and price parity clauses of online platforms
- Authority / court
- Competition Commission (Hongkong)
- Area of law
- Competition law
- Legal basis
- Competition Ordinance (Cap. 619), s. 6 (First Conduct Rule); Annahme einer Verpflichtungszusage nach s. 60
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 17 Jun 2026
- Competition Commission: Competition Commission accepts commitment offered by Keeta (17.06.2026) Press release of an authority
- Competition Commission: Notice regarding the Commission's acceptance of a commitment from Keeta in the Online Food Delivery Platform case (EC/12LD), 17.06.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 3 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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9 Jun 2026 MetaMeta: interim measures to keep WhatsApp open to rival AI assistants free of charge Order
The European Commission ordered Meta to restore access for rival general-purpose AI assistants to the WhatsApp for Business interface on the terms in place before 15 October 2025, i.e. free of charge, and to maintain it until the final decision. The Commission found a prima facie abuse of a dominant position in consumer communication apps, because Meta had first excluded third-party assistants and later charged a fee with practically the same effect; the measures had to be implemented within five working days.
A company that has opened its dominant platform to third parties must not squeeze out competitors in the growing AI market through exclusion or prohibitive fees.
Refusal of platform access to AI competitors
- Authority / court
- Europäische Kommission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 AEUV; Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen; Art. 8 Abs. 1 VO (EG) Nr. 1/2003
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 9 Jun 2026
- Commission imposes interim measures on Meta to preserve free access to WhatsApp for rival AI assistants (IP/26/1276) Press release of an authority
- Presscorner-Schnittstelle, Volltext IP/26/1276 Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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5 Mar 2026 SIA "SS"Classifieds portal ss.lv blocked users of competitor – fine of 186,781 EUR €186,781
From March 2020 to May 2021, the operator of ss.lv/ss.com (market share over 60%) deleted advertisements and blocked accounts of users – mainly car dealers and estate agents – who also advertised on the competing platform pp.lv; anyone wishing to register with an inbox.lv address additionally had to provide a different e-mail address. The Konkurences padome (Latvian Competition Council) considered this an abuse of a dominant position (Art. 102 TFEU), imposed 186,780.65 EUR and required objective criteria for dealing with customers.
Market-leading platforms must not punish users for multi-homing – internal moderation rules need objective criteria.
Competition law limits in dealing with competitors’ customers
- Authority / court
- Konkurences padome (Lettischer Wettbewerbsrat)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 18 Mar 2026
- KP konstatē SIA „SS“ dominējoša stāvokļa ļaunprātīgu izmantošanu … naudas sodu 186 780,65 EUR (18.03.2026) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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18 Feb 2026 Check24 GmbHBundeskartellamt: Check24 drops best-price clauses towards energy suppliers Order
The Bundeskartellamt (Federal Cartel Office) declared binding commitments by Check24 GmbH under which the comparison website gives up price parity clauses when brokering electricity and gas contracts: energy suppliers may offer their tariffs more cheaply via other websites and their own sales channels without the contractual relationship, commission or ranking depending on it (no 'dimming'). In its preliminary assessment the authority had concerns under Articles 101 and 102 TFEU and Sections 1, 19 and 20 of the German Competition Act (GWB).
Leading brokerage platforms should avoid best-price clauses; indirect levers such as a worse ranking also count as parity requirements.
Best-price and parity clauses in brokerage contracts
- Authority / court
- Bundeskartellamt
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- § 32b Abs. 1 GWB (Verpflichtungszusagen); Bedenken nach Art. 101, 102 AEUV, §§ 1, 19, 20 GWB (Az. B8-40/25)
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 24 Feb 2026
- Check24 verpflichtet sich zur Aufgabe von Preisparitätsklauseln gegenüber Energieversorgern (24.02.2026) Press release of an authority
- Bundeskartellamt, Beschluss B8-40/25 vom 18.02.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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12 Feb 2026 DPG Media nv; Mediahuis nv; PPP Belgium bv; bpost nv (Kronzeuge)Press concession: 11.9 million EUR for collusion in newspaper delivery tender €11.9m
So that bpost would obtain the state concession for newspaper delivery for 2023–2027, its competitor PPP refrained from submitting a bid and in return received additional delivery volumes from DPG Media and Mediahuis (bid rigging). In a settlement procedure, the Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (Belgian Competition Authority, BMA) imposed 3,786,574 EUR (DPG Media), 7,788,423 EUR (Mediahuis) and 323,486 EUR (PPP); bpost, as leniency applicant, received full immunity.
Agreements on who participates in a tender are hardcore cartels; leniency applicants benefit.
Collusion in public tenders
- Authority / court
- Autorité belge de la Concurrence / Belgische Mededingingsautoriteit (BMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Code de droit économique Art. IV.1; AEUV Art. 101
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Leniency programme (immunity for bpost; reductions of 50% and 40% for DPG Media and Mediahuis respectively) and 10% settlement reduction.
- Liability of senior managers
- Measures against individuals are not reported here.
- Published
- 13 Feb 2026
- BMA – Communiqué de presse N° 6/2026 (13.02.2026) Press release of an authority
- BMA – Beslissing BMA-2026-RPR-04-AUD (Krantenconcessie), publieke versie, 12.02.2026 Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Version 2 · Direct link
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11 Feb 2026 Liga do Futebol Brasileiro (Libra), Clube de Regatas do Flamengo, Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras u. a. (6 Organisationen)CADE: football league Libra and five clubs pay BRL 559,267.26 for gun jumping €90,565
The CADE Tribunal found that the Libra league, as a joint venture of clubs for the joint commercialisation of broadcasting and commercial rights, was notifiable and had been implemented before clearance, and approved a settlement (Acordo em APAC) with Libra and Flamengo, Palmeiras, Santos, São Paulo and Grêmio with an alleged pecuniary contribution of 559,267.26 BRL. The parties must notify the transactions already completed within 60 days and report changes to their commercialisation structures for three years; for the rival league FFU (formerly LFU) no infringement was found because the turnover thresholds were not met. The amount and the facts have not been confirmed against the primary source.
Clubs and associations that market rights jointly may form a notifiable joint venture and must obtain clearance before launch.
Joint commercialisation of rights as a notifiable joint venture
- Authority / court
- Conselho Administrativo de Defesa Econômica (CADE), Tribunal Administrativo
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Art. 88 § 3 Lei nº 12.529/2011
- Action
- Other
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 11 Feb 2026
Original amount 559,267.26 BRL, converted at the ECB reference rate of 11 Feb 2026.
- Diário Oficial da União, 23.02.2026, Seção 1, S. 116: Ata da 260ª Sessão Ordinária (11.02.2026), APAC nº 08700.007461/2023-22 und 08700.005511/2023-37 Official register or notice
- CADE, 11.02.2026: Cade celebra acordo com Libra e FFU em investigação de consumação antecipada de atos de concentração Press release of an authority
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30 Oct 2025 MM Grupp OÜCinema chain MM Grupp (Apollo) took over Forum Cinemas without clearance – 7.5 million EUR €7.51m
In 2021, the Estonian parent company of Apollo cinemas acquired control of Forum Cinemas Lithuania before the notified merger had been cleared and integrated the cinemas in Vilnius and Kaunas into its network, even though the Konkurencijos taryba (Lithuanian Competition Council) had provisionally expressed competition concerns. Fine of 7,507,930 EUR (0.8% of consolidated worldwide turnover) and obligation to end the infringement within six months. Source: archived copy of the press release.
No implementation before clearance: restructurings and leases can also constitute prohibited early implementation.
- Authority / court
- Konkurencijos taryba (Litauischer Wettbewerbsrat)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Merger control
- Legal basis
- Konkurencijos įstatymas (Vollzugsverbot bei Zusammenschlüssen)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 30 Oct 2025
- Konkurencijos taryba, Pranešimas 2025-10-30 (Archivkopie web.archive.org von kt.gov.lt) Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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5 Sep 2025 GoogleGoogle: €2.95bn fine for self-preferencing in advertising technology €2.95bn
According to the European Commission's findings, Google had, since at least 2014, abused its dominant position in publisher ad servers (DFP) and in programmatic ad buying tools (Google Ads, DV360) by favouring its own ad exchange AdX, for example by informing it in advance of the best rival bid. In addition to the fine of €2.95bn, the Commission ordered Google to end the self-preferencing and to propose measures against the conflicts of interest along the adtech supply chain; earlier fines imposed on Google for abuse of dominance were taken into account.
A company that is dominant and active at several levels of a value chain must treat its own services and those of rivals equally and resolve conflicts of interest organisationally.
Self-preferencing of own services by dominant companies
- Authority / court
- Europäische Kommission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 AEUV; Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Repeat case
- yes
- Published
- 5 Sep 2025
- Commission fines Google €2.95 billion over abusive practices in online advertising technology (IP/25/1992) Press release of an authority
- Presscorner-Schnittstelle, Volltext IP/25/1992 Press release of an authority
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12 Aug 2025 Nol Universe Co., Ltd. (Yanolja), Yeogi Eottae CompanyBooking platforms Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae let prepaid discount coupons expire €954,488
The two leading accommodation booking platforms sold small and medium-sized lodging businesses advertising packages whose price included discount coupons for guests, and let unused coupons expire without compensation (Yanolja at the end of the contract period, Yeogi Eottae through a validity of only one day). The KFTC (Korea Fair Trade Commission, Korea's competition authority) treated this as an abuse of a superior bargaining position, issued corrective and notification orders and imposed fines totalling KRW 1,540 million: KRW 540 million on Nol Universe (Yanolja) and KRW 1,000 million, the statutory maximum fixed-amount fine, on Yeogi Eottae.
Platforms must not devalue services that partners have already paid for through unilateral expiry rules.
Fair terms towards dependent business partners on platforms
- Authority / court
- Korea Fair Trade Commission (KFTC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 45 Abs. 1 Nr. 6 MRFTA i. V. m. Art. 52 und Anhang 2 Nr. 6 lit. d Durchführungsverordnung (Monopoly Regulation and Fair Trade Act)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 12 Aug 2025
Original amount 1,540,000,000 KRW, converted at the ECB reference rate of 12 Aug 2025.
- KFTC press release (EN), 13 Aug 2025: KFTC Sanctions Yanolja and Yeogi Eottae for Abuse of Superior Bargaining Position Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO), 12.08.2025: 2개 숙박앱 사업자의 거래상지위 남용행위 제재 Press release of an authority
- KFTC-Pressemitteilung (KO, PDF) mit Rechtsgrundlage und Maßnahmen je Unternehmen Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 4 Oct 2026 · Direct link
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21 Mar 2025 BT, IMG, ITV, BBC (Sky Kronzeuge)CMA: 4.24 million GBP against BT, IMG, ITV and BBC over collusion on freelancer fees €5.06m
Sports broadcasters and production companies exchanged sensitive information in 15 instances about day rates and fee increases for freelance camera operators and sound technicians in order to coordinate pay. Fines: BT 1,738,453 GBP, IMG 1,737,820 GBP, BBC 424,165 GBP, ITV 339,918 GBP; Sky received immunity as the first to come forward.
HR and the procurement of freelance work are also subject to competition law – salary and fee information must not be shared with competitors.
Exchanges about salaries and fees with competitors (labour market)
- Authority / court
- Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Chapter I Competition Act 1998
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- 20 % settlement discount for all; leniency discounts for BT, IMG, ITV; immunity for Sky
- Published
- 21 Mar 2025
Original amount 4,240,356 GBP, converted at the ECB reference rate of 21 Mar 2025.
- Sports broadcast and production companies fined £4 million in freelancer pay investigation Press release of an authority
Checked against the official source on 25 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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19 Dec 2024 Autobutler ApSAutobutler: DKK 7m settlement over fixed prices agreed with hundreds of garages €938,174
The car repair booking platform Autobutler ApS is paying a fine of 7,000,000 DKK under a court settlement before the Sø- og Handelsretten (Danish Maritime and Commercial High Court). In June 2023 the Konkurrencerådet (Danish Competition Council) had found that from at least March 2016 to October 2021 Autobutler agreed fixed prices for specific services in specific periods with several hundred garages; Autobutler had challenged that decision in court.
Platforms that set or coordinate prices for their providers can themselves be party to a prohibited price-fixing agreement.
Price-setting by platforms towards their providers
- Authority / court
- Sø- og Handelsretten (gerichtlicher Vergleich mit dem Konkurrencerådet)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Konkurrenceloven § 6 stk. 1, jf. stk. 2 nr. 1 og stk. 3; Art. 101 AEUV; Bußgeld nach § 23 b
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Cooperation in bringing the case to a close.
- Published
- 20 Dec 2024
Original amount 7,000,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 19 Dec 2024.
- Konkurrence- og Forbrugerstyrelsen: Autobutler betaler bøde på 7 millioner kroner (20.12.2024) Press release of an authority
- Sø- og Handelsretten, retsbog 19.12.2024, BS-41829/2023-SHR (indenretligt forlig) Court decision
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14 Nov 2024 MetaMeta: €797.72m fine for tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook €797.7m
The European Commission found that Meta abused its dominant position in personal social networks and in display advertising on social media: its classified ads service Facebook Marketplace was automatically linked to Facebook, and other classified ads providers advertising on Facebook and Instagram were subjected to unfair terms allowing Meta to use their ad-related data for Marketplace. In addition to the fine of €797.72m, Meta must end the conduct and must not repeat it.
Dominant platforms must not forcibly tie add-on services to their core product or exploit data from advertisers who are also competitors for their own offerings.
Tying and use of competitors' data by dominant companies
- Authority / court
- Europäische Kommission
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 102 AEUV; Art. 54 EWR-Abkommen
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 14 Nov 2024
- Commission fines Meta €797.72 million over abusive practices benefitting Facebook Marketplace (IP/24/5801) Press release of an authority
- Presscorner-Schnittstelle, Volltext IP/24/5801 Press release of an authority
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23 Sep 2024 a French publishing groupWEKO orders a French publishing group to grant a Swiss bookseller domestic terms (under appeal) Order
A French publishing group charged a Swiss bookseller considerably higher purchase prices for direct supply in France than are customary there, although the bookseller had no reasonable alternatives. The Swiss Competition Commission (WEKO) found an abuse of relative market power and ordered the publishing group to grant the bookseller the sales and discount terms applicable in France for direct purchases, less admissible additional costs for the Swiss market; the publishing group bears the procedural costs of CHF 254,865. According to WEKO (as of March 2025), an appeal against the decision was pending before the Federal Administrative Court.
Since relative market power was introduced, foreign suppliers can also be required to grant dependent Swiss buyers their domestic terms.
Relative market power and refusal to supply on foreign terms
- Authority / court
- Wettbewerbskommission (WEKO)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 7 Abs. 1 und 2 lit. g KG (relative Marktmacht), Art. 30 Abs. 1 KG
- Action
- Order
- Status of proceedings
- under appeal
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 21 Nov 2024
- WEKO, Entscheide (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 2 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 23 Sep 2026 · Direct link
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30 Jul 2024 a Dutch online hotel reservation platformSpain: 413 million EUR against online hotel reservation platform for abuse vis-à-vis hotels €413.2m
The platform, with a market share of 70–90 % in online hotel booking in Spain, imposed unfair conditions such as price parity clauses and obstructed other online travel agencies through ranking criteria. The CNMC imposed a fine of 413.24 million EUR.
Parity clauses and ranking advantages for exclusive partners are high-risk for dominant platforms.
- Authority / court
- Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 2 LDC, Art. 102 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Published
- 30 Jul 2024
- CNMC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
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19 Jun 2024 a Spanish collecting societyCNMC: €6.39m fine on collecting society for tariff abuse towards radio and TV €6.39m
The Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC, Spanish competition and markets authority) fined the collecting society a total of 6,387,819 EUR (3,954,364 and 2,433,455 EUR) for two abuses of its dominant position in licensing music and audiovisual rights to radio and television broadcasters. Its tariffs based on actual use were set so high that broadcasters were in practice dependent on flat-rate tariffs; in addition, the collecting society presented its music repertoire as universal and offered indemnities against third-party claims, which made switching to competing collecting societies harder.
Dominant suppliers must offer a genuine choice between tariff models and must not keep customers away from competitors through flat-rate pricing and indemnity promises.
Tariff design by dominant suppliers
- Authority / court
- Comisión Nacional de los Mercados y la Competencia (CNMC)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. 2 Ley 15/2007 de Defensa de la Competencia; Art. 102 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- unknown
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Published
- 26 Jun 2024
- CNMC, Pressemitteilungen (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Decision of an authority
Checked against the official source on 28 Sep 2026 · Company name anonymised since 19 Jun 2026 · Direct link
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16 Apr 2024 a Danish outdoor advertising companyOutdoor advertising firm: DKK 6m for coordinated discounts on outdoor advertising €804,193
The outdoor advertising company accepted a criminal fine of 6,000,000 DKK. From September 2008 to the end of 2010 the company had agreed in writing with a competitor on uniform discount rates (media commission, information fee, security deposit, cash discount) for selling outdoor advertising space, and continued to apply the coordinated rates until April 2015.
Even after a written agreement ends, continuing to apply the coordinated terms remains a cartel infringement.
After-effects of agreements: continuing coordinated terms
- Authority / court
- National enhed for Særlig Kriminalitet (NSK) nach Anzeige des Konkurrencerådet
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Konkurrenceloven § 23 stk. 1 nr. 1 og 14, stk. 4, jf. § 6 stk. 1 og 3; Art. 101 Abs. 1 AEUV
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Consistent admission of the first period (2008–2010) and subsequent admission of the second period (2011–2015).
- Published
- 18 Apr 2024
Original amount 6,000,000 DKK, converted at the ECB reference rate of 16 Apr 2024.
- KFST, Entscheidungen im Wettbewerbsbereich (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Press release of an authority
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15 Mar 2024 a US internet group and its subsidiariesInternet group: EUR 250 million for breaching commitments on press publishers’ neighbouring rights €250m
The group failed to comply with several of the commitments made binding in 2022 on negotiations with press publishers and news agencies: its remuneration offers were not based on transparent criteria, necessary information was missing, the basis for remuneration was narrowed and the monitoring trustee did not receive all information. In addition, the group used press content for its AI service (since renamed) without informing publishers or enabling them to object separately. The group did not contest the objections; the Autorité de la concurrence (French Competition Authority) imposed EUR 250 million in a settlement procedure.
Commitments given to a competition authority are binding and must also be taken into account for new products such as AI services.
Compliance with commitments to authorities; use of third-party content for AI
- Authority / court
- Autorité de la concurrence
- Area of law
- Competition law · Abuse of market power
- Legal basis
- Art. L. 464-3 Code de commerce (Nichteinhaltung der 2022 für verbindlich erklärten Zusagen); Vergleichsverfahren nach Art. L. 464-2 III Code de commerce
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Employees
- 10,000 or more
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement procedure; the group did not contest the objections and offered remedial measures.
- Published
- 20 Mar 2024
- Autorité de la concurrence, Liste des décisions et avis (Übersicht) (Entscheidung 2024) Enforcement database of an authority
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13 Feb 2024 a South African outdoor advertising companyCompetition Tribunal: ZAR 2.7m against outdoor advertiser over industry code of practice €133,771
According to the Competition Commission, members of an outdoor advertising association set uniform cancellation fees (75% of the remaining contract), credits for sub-standard illumination, charges for late delivery of material and fees for removing posters in a code of practice from around 2004 to 2018 (fixing of prices and trading conditions). In a settlement without admission of liability, the outdoor advertising division of a media company pays ZAR 2,717,950 in twelve instalments and provides free advertising worth ZAR 1,358,976 to ten small businesses owned by historically disadvantaged persons.
An association code that sets fees and contract terms for all members can amount to price fixing; association work must be subject to competition law oversight.
Cartel risks in trade associations and industry codes
- Authority / court
- Competition Tribunal of South Africa (auf Antrag der Competition Commission)
- Area of law
- Competition law · Cartels and collusion
- Legal basis
- Competition Act 89 of 1998, s. 4(1)(b)(i); ss. 49D, 58(1)(a)(iii), 58(1)(b)
- Action
- Fine
- Status of proceedings
- final
- Sector
- Media and online platforms
- Mitigating circumstances
- Settlement without admission of liability; payment in instalments.
- Published
- 13 Feb 2024
Original amount 2,717,950 ZAR, converted at the ECB reference rate of 13 Feb 2024.
Checked against the official source on 8 Oct 2026 · Company name anonymised since 13 Feb 2026 · Direct link