Russia: Ruling upheld by 9th Arbitration Appeal Court against Google for abuse of dominance
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Ruling upheld by 9th Arbitration Appeal Court against Google for abuse of dominance
On 14 March 2017, the 9th Arbitration Appeal Court upheld the ruling of the Moscow Arbitration Court upholding the decision by the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation (FAS) made on 14 September 2015, which held that Google had abused its dominance in the mobile devices market. Specifically, Google implemented clauses into contracts with producers of mobile devices that oblige the producers to pre-install certain applications and set Google as the default search engine. Furthermore, Google gave its own applications a preferential screen location on mobile devices. The opening of this investigation followed a complaint made by Yandex to the FAS.
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Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
software provider: app stores, search service provider
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority
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2015-02-20
under deliberation
2015-09-14
in force
2015-10-05
in force
2016-08-11
in force
2016-11-18
under appeal
2016-12-26
in force
2017-01-24
under appeal