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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10835
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ECONOMY - FINANCE - BUSINESS / (ae) competition

Consultation on Google's offer

Brussels, 25/04/2013 (Agence Europe) - On Wednesday 25 April 2013, the European Commission urged interested parties to comment on the commitments offered by Google over advertising on its search engine. Last month, the Commission explained that it fears that Google is abusing its dominant position on the internet search market, online advertising and acting as a publicity intermediary for searches in the European Economic Area (see EUROPE 10819 and 10762). Since then, Google has offered to make changes to respond to the major concerns. Interested parties have one month to comment. The Commission will take account of the comments in its analysis of Google's commitments. If it believes they would solve the problems outlined, then it may decide to make them legally binding on the company. For full details of the commitments, see http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.cfm?proc_code=1_39740 . (OL/transl.fl)

 

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