Italy: Italian Competition Authority changes fine on Amazon and Apple for anti-competitive agreement

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Italian Competition Authority changes fine on Amazon and Apple for anti-competitive agreement

On 17 December 2021, the Italian Competition Authority redetermined the fines imposed on Apple and Amazon for limiting resellers of "genuine" Apple and Beats branded products from accessing the Amazon marketplace. Due to a clerical error in the calculation of the fines, the amount was redetermined to EUR 114'681'657 for Apple and EUR 58'592'754 for Amazon.

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Scope

Policy Area

Competition

Policy Instrument

Anti-competitive agreements regulation

Regulated Economic Activity

platform intermediary: e-commerce, other service provider

Implementation Level

national

Government Branch

executive

Government Body

competition authority

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2020-07-22

under deliberation

On 22 July 2020, the Italian Competition Authority launched an investigation into Apple and Amazon …

2021-11-16

concluded

On 16 November 2021, the Italian Competition Authority concluded its investigation into Apple and A…

2021-11-23

in force

On 23 November 2021, the Italian Competition Authority fined Apple and Amazon for limiting reseller…

2021-12-17

in force

On 17 December 2021, the Italian Competition Authority redetermined the fines imposed on Apple and …

2022-10-03

in force

On 3 October 2022, the Italian Administrative Court for Lazio issued its ruling in the appeal case …