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Violation of European Union Rules: It is believed that low penalty for only apples and meta

28/03/2025

Apple and Meta are the first punishment for alleged violation of the European Union Act on Digital Markets Act, DMA. Competitive officer will direct Apple to change some app store rules and punish the “minimum” against the group. Financial Times report on Friday People familiar with the decision. Meta should be “agreeing or pay” models and also punished in a managed amount.

High penalty for DMA Violation on Paper

In investigation, the European Union Commission temporarily found that the corporations violated the new rules with their practices. Apple app is about the possibility of adding app to providers and developers with a cheaper shopping option on the web. It was said by regulators in the meta that the option between payment or approval for the use of personal data was not compatible with the DMA.

For regular violations against DMA, the European Union Commission provides penalty payments in an amount of 10 percent of the global business of corporations classified as a gatekeeper, and in the event of frequent violations. With the exception of the Ticke operator bidence, Gatecon includes only American companies, namely Apple, Meta, Amazon Microsoft and Alphabet. A fine of such height can reach $ 36 billion on Apple.

Stir on new rules apple and metas business models

With the “minimum punishment”, Brussels are now rehearsing the balance act amidst the enforcement of the Digital Market Act and avoiding a major collision with the Trump government, writing business newspapers. Trump had already threatened to further punitive tariffs several times. According to the Financial Times, recently the newly formed European Union Commission is also more important to follow the rules than implementing large punishments.

For Apple and Meta, the required arrangements-even the low-level punishment-term fundamental trade models as well as the billions have been brought so far: Apple is eventually concerned with the attractive commission of in-app shopping, in Meta about the target advertising wires.