EC wants, within a few months to decide whether Google abused its dominant position’

The European Union will soon have to investigate to Google complete, said EU official Tommasso Valletti at a conference which was attended by news agency Reuters. If there is a penalty attached to it, is not known.

The news agency writes that the Commission ” in the next few months a decision will take on the question of whether Google’s dominant market position in various markets has been abused. It would be to make decisions in all the cases that the Commission has against Google, whose Android case according to Valletti for him ‘the most interesting’. A fine may be up to a maximum of ten percent of the annual turnover. Parent company Alphabet achieved in 2016 a turnover of 90 billion dollars, reports Reuters.

There are a total of three Commission investigations into the practices of Google. The European Commission presented a year ago a complaint against Google in the Android case. The complaint mentioned that the internet company, its market position is abused by makers of smartphones and tablets to require to Google apps, such as Search and the Chrome browser, pre-install on their Android devices. According to Google, is the inclusion of apps needed for investment in its operating system to be able to continue to do so.

The second case revolves around Google’s position on the market for search engines. The company would be the popularity of the search engine to use for its other services, such as price comparison sites an unfair advantage to give them a prominent place in the search results. The last issue has to do with Googles AdSense. Core of the matter is that Google in the past ten years, according to the Commission, through its AdSense platform has infringed the competition rules, in agreements with a limited number of large third parties to certain conditions, to impose. The specific search ads that appear after users search on websites that have a custom search engine from Google.