FAS gave Google another month to eliminate violations of the law "On Protection of Competition"
As you know, FAS has recognized Google as the violator of the law on competition. This concerns the dominant position of Google in the market of pre-installed app stores in the Android OS.
Today, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has met US Google and extended the period by a month, during which the company must eliminate the violation of the law.
The term is extended until December 18, reports Reuters. The Interfax Agency, citing a representative of the FAS, said that the delay was granted “due to the technical difficulties of execution in such a short period of time”.
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Earlier, the FAS Russia demanded from Google to eliminate the violation of the law “On Protection of Competition” until November 18. This requirement concerns the abuse of a dominant position in the market for pre-installed Android app stores. As required by the regulator, the terms of cooperation with manufacturers of mobile devices must be changed - the obligations of partners to install third-party applications must be removed from the contract.
On September 14, the head of the FAS information technology department, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, said that the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service had declared Google a violator of anti-monopoly legislation. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the violator of the law “On protection of competition” is threatened with a so-called negotiable fine.
“A decision was made to declare Google’s actions a violation of Article 10 § 1“ On protection of competition, ”said Kudryavtsev. According to this article, the offending company is obliged to pay a fine in the amount of 1-15% of the company's revenue on the market in which the violation was committed, over the past year.
The case against Google was filed following a complaint by a rival Yandex company . According to representatives of the domestic company, Google dictates its own conditions to manufacturers of mobile devices based on Android OS. Yandex claims that Google prohibits mobile device manufacturers from pre-installing applications and services from other Internet companies. For example, last year, Google banned the pre-installation of any Yandex services on Fly, Explay and Prestigio mobile devices.
Today, the Federal Antimonopoly Service of the Russian Federation has met US Google and extended the period by a month, during which the company must eliminate the violation of the law.
The term is extended until December 18, reports Reuters. The Interfax Agency, citing a representative of the FAS, said that the delay was granted “due to the technical difficulties of execution in such a short period of time”.
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Earlier, the FAS Russia demanded from Google to eliminate the violation of the law “On Protection of Competition” until November 18. This requirement concerns the abuse of a dominant position in the market for pre-installed Android app stores. As required by the regulator, the terms of cooperation with manufacturers of mobile devices must be changed - the obligations of partners to install third-party applications must be removed from the contract.
On September 14, the head of the FAS information technology department, Vladimir Kudryavtsev, said that the Federal Anti-Monopoly Service had declared Google a violator of anti-monopoly legislation. According to the legislation of the Russian Federation, the violator of the law “On protection of competition” is threatened with a so-called negotiable fine.
“A decision was made to declare Google’s actions a violation of Article 10 § 1“ On protection of competition, ”said Kudryavtsev. According to this article, the offending company is obliged to pay a fine in the amount of 1-15% of the company's revenue on the market in which the violation was committed, over the past year.
The case against Google was filed following a complaint by a rival Yandex company . According to representatives of the domestic company, Google dictates its own conditions to manufacturers of mobile devices based on Android OS. Yandex claims that Google prohibits mobile device manufacturers from pre-installing applications and services from other Internet companies. For example, last year, Google banned the pre-installation of any Yandex services on Fly, Explay and Prestigio mobile devices.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/296168/
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