EU severely punished EPL and Metu: They must pay 700 million euros – BBC News in Serbian

The European Union (EU) has determined high fines for EPL and target according to the new regulation intended to combat the power of large technological giants.

EPL and targets have been punished for 700 million euros.

The EPL company was punished with a fine of 500 million euros due to App Storewhile the target was punished with 200 million euros due to the way it has been treated user data.

« We have an obligation to protect the rights of citizens and innovative companies in Europe, » said Commissioner Hena Virkunen in a statement.

Both companies reactively reacted.

The target accuses the EU for « attempt to prevent successful American companies », and from EPLE claim that they are « dishonestly ».

Penalties are less than which the EU has evicted so far, but, given the enhanced economic tensions with America, still risk to bring about US President Donald Tramp.

America introduced Customs from 10 percent to the import of goods from the EU, which Tramp has accused of « exploitation » of the United States.

The Aryana Podesta, the EU spokesman, says that are two « completely separated » themes.

« This concerns law enforcement, not trading negotiations, » she said.

Cookies and applications

The European Commission, the EU Executive Body, last year, initiated investigations against both prempines under the new law to promote fair relations in the technological sector, called the Act on Digital Markets (DMA).

EPL was under investigation for his App Store.

The Commission states that the EPL was obliged to offer users and developers of applications to the applications and developers – and claims that this company violated this obligation.

The punishment of a target, in whose ownership, Facebook, Instagram and Vocap, refers to the manner handling « cookies » – parts of the code built into web sites that collect user information.

Meta, on whose head Mark Zekerberg, introduced the « accept consent or pay » on Facebook and Instagram, which meant users had to choose from ‘cookies’, or to pay them’ to pay their monthly subscription.

The Commission states that this model does not allow users to voluntarily agree to the use of their data.

In both cases, the Commission states that the size of the sentence takes into account the « seriousness and duration of non-compliance ».

Both companies have 60 days to compliance, otherwise there is a risk of a new penalty.

« EPL and Meta did not meet the prescribed requirements because they implemented measures that increases the dependence of business users and consumers from their platforms, » ​​said Commissioner Tereza Ribera.

« As a result, we took solid, but balanced law enforcement measures against both companies, based on clear and predictable rules, » she added.

The EPL said that the Commission has passed « a series of decisions that are bad by privacy and security of their users, bad by products and compel them to » share their technology free « .

They accuse the European Commission and that « changed the rules of the game » during their meetings.

This decision means that Chinese and European companies can operate according to other standards in relation to American companies, they say from the target.

« This is not just a punishment, the fact that the Commission has forced us to change the business model essentially imposing us a few billion dollars and thus provide less quality service », writes in a statement.

Epic dispute

Penalties are relatively small given the huge world revenues of these technological companies.

Gugl is 2024 in September. Punished with 2.4 billion euros.

However, these most recently are significant in the context of the current economic situation in the world.

In February, the tramp adminstration criticized EU regulations and Great Britain according to American technological companies.

« Today’s decisions are important because they confirm that the European Commission will not retire, » An en Vit said, Professor of law at Edhec Business School in France, for the BBC.

The dispute is not so related to essential antimonopolic principles, given that the US government raises lawsuits against major technological companies, accusing them of monopoly, she added.

However, the problem is, it explains, more that European institutions speak American companies how to behave, even if decisions are limited to European soil.

One company that is satisfied with the verdict against EPle is Epic Games, manufacturer of the popular Fortnayt game.

They led a long-lasting dispute around distributing their applications on EPL devices.

This verdict is « great news for developers who make applications around the world, » Tim Svina, Executive Director Epic Games.

He called on America to adopt a similar law that would allow developers to distribute applications without using an online-online store charging platform benefit.

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