Search Engine Leveraging Abuse
Competition – Abuse of dominant position – Online general search services and specialised product search services – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the EEA Agreement – Leveraging abuse – Competition on the merits or anticompetitive practice – Conditions of access by competitors to a dominant undertaking’s service the use of which cannot be effectively replaced – Dominant undertaking favouring the display of results from its own specialised search service – Effects – Need to establish a counterfactual scenario – None – Objective justifications – None – Possibility of imposing a fine having regard to certain circumstances – Guidelines on the method of setting fines – Unlimited jurisdiction
Citations:
T-612/17, [2021] EUECJ T-612/17, ECLI:EU:T:2021:763
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Jurisdiction:
European
Commercial
Updated: 30 November 2022; Ref: scu.670020
