After more than three years of proceedings, Google was sentenced Monday by the Paris Commercial Court to a "
civil fine
" of 2 million euros for abusive commercial practices towards mobile application developers, and must modify seven clauses of its distribution contract, according to the judgment consulted on Tuesday by AFP.
The company was sued in 2018 by the Directorate General for Competition, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Prevention (DGCCRF), which accused it of "
imposing tariffs
" on French start-ups wishing to sell their products. applications on its platforms, to recover their data and to be able to “
unilaterally modify contracts
”.
Apple had also been assigned and a decision is still awaited in this aspect.
In March 2018, in the midst of tensions with Donald Trump's United States, which wanted to tax steel and aluminum imports, Bruno Le Maire announced that the French state was going to sue Google and Apple for "
abusive commercial practices
and demand a penalty of two million euros.