European Union: EC broadened scope of its investigation into Google for alleged violations of EU competition rules by including Portuguese administrative offence proceedings

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EC broadened scope of its investigation into Google for alleged violations of EU competition rules by including Portuguese administrative offence proceedings

On 27 July 2022, the European Commission (EC) took over the administrative offence proceedings of the Portuguese Competition Authority (AdC) in the same investigation that the EC opened against Google last year, on 22 June 2021. The AdC initiated ad…

Scope

Policy Area
Competition
Policy Instrument
Unilateral conduct regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
online advertising provider
Implementation Level
supranational
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
competition authority

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2021-06-22
under deliberation

On June 22, 2021, the European Commission (EC) opened up an investigation into Google's potentially…

2022-07-27
under deliberation

On 27 July 2022, the European Commission (EC) took over the administrative offence proceedings of t…

2023-06-14
under investigation

On 14 June 2023, the European Commission announced that it had sent a statement of objections to Go…

2025-09-05
in force

On 5 September 2025, the European Commission fined Google EUR 2.95 billion for abusing its dominant…