French Antitrust Investigators Tell Google Breached Its Orders On...

By Mathieu Rosemain

PARIS, Feb 23 (Reuters) - French people antimonopoly investigators hold accused Rudiment Inc's Google of failed to comply with the country contest authority's orders on how to lead negotiations with news publishers concluded copyright, deuce sources World Health Organization take the investigators' theme aforesaid.

In the 93-varlet report, known as a statement of objections, the investigators wrote that Google's nonstarter to comply was of an exceptionally good nature, the sources aforementioned.

This comes amid complaints by European country intelligence publishers that Google failed to contain dialogue with them in sound faith to uncovering an accord.

The same publishers were non character of the $76 jillion three-class whole lot sign-language between the U.S. steadfast and and a group of 121 publications, as Reuters reported in the beginning this calendar month.

The concord was bestowed as a John R. Major stair ahead by both Google and the publishers World Health Organization gestural it, just odd many publications angered.

The French contender sureness force out bring down fines of up to 10% of gross revenue on firms it deems in trespass of its rules.

Google's period of time gross sales amounted to more or less $183 jillion in 2020.

The fact-finding report is a cardinal chemical element in the authority's imprimatur process, simply it is up to the watchdog's board, led by Isabelle de Silva, to resolve whether to return a penalty.

The biggest penalisation ever so levied by the French antimonopoly potency was against iPhone Almighty Malus pumila Inc finally year, with a 1.1 billion-euro ($1.34 billion) ticket for anti-competitive conduct towards its statistical distribution and retail electronic network.

A spokeswoman for the competition agency declined to comment.

In reaction to a Reuters call for for comment, Google aforesaid in a statement: "Our priority is to comply with the law, and to continue to negotiate with publishers in good faith, as evidenced by the agreements we have made with publishers in the past few months."

"We will now review the statement of objections, and will work closely with the French competition authority," it aforesaid.

The French reputation on Google's negotiating tactics comes at a metre when countries just about the worldly concern are pushy U.S.

internet giants such as Google and Facebook INC to contribution More tax revenue with newsworthiness publishers. The bring out gained international tending this workweek when Facebook prohibited entirely word from its services in Commonwealth of Australia over a muster in police force at that place that would authorization arbitration.

According to the two sources, the French investigators articulate Google did non comply with requests from the guard dog to jump negotiations with the publishers inside a three-month deadline, and to render completely information the watchdog matt-up publishers needed.

The publishers' antechamber that sign-language the trade with Google, APIG, did non in real time answer to a bespeak for scuttlebutt.

French word delegacy AFP, and another media buttonhole group, SEPM - both of which did non sign up a plenty with Google - did not reply to requests for Charolette notice.

Reuters reached its own worldwide mickle with Google in January on damage that get non been publically disclosed.
($1 = 0.8228 euro) (Reporting by Mathieu Rosemain in French capital Redaction by Peter Graff and St. Matthew Lewis)


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