Intel In a major setback for EU antitrust regulators on Wednesday, it won its appeal against a 1.06-billion-euro ($1.2 billion) deal handed over to the US chipmaker twelve years ago to crush a rival.
The European Commission Intel was penalized in 2009 for trying to block rival Advanced Micro Devices by giving discounts to computer makers Dell, Hewlett-Packard Company, NEC and others. Lenovo To buy most of their chips from Intel.
located in Luxembourg common court, Europe’s second largest, criticized the EU competition promoter’s analysis and revoked the fine.
The judges said, “The (European) Commission’s analysis is incomplete and does not make it possible to establish the requisite legal standard that the issue waives, or is likely to have, anti-competitive effects.”
The court completely quashed the article of the disputed decision, which fined Intel 1.06 billion euros in connection with the violations.
The same court upheld the commission’s 2009 decision in 2014, but was later asked by the EU Court of Justice, Europe’s highest, to re-examine Intel’s appeal in 2017.
Regulators generally do not like exemptions, especially those offered by major companies, over concerns that they may be anti-competitive. However, the companies say that before the regulators can approve it, it will have to prove that the exemption has an anti-competitive effect.
ruling, which is likely to appease the Alphabet unit Google Appeals can be made to the CJEU to fight against a trio of hefty EU antitrust fines.
The case is T-286/09 P Intel Corporation v Commission.
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