Italy: Amazon fined 1 billion euros for "abuse of dominant position"

Italian justice has sentenced Amazon to a fine of one billion euros for "abuse of a dominant position".

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The American multinational Amazon will have to pay a colossal fine for not having respected the rules of competition in online commerce in Italy.

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With our correspondent in Rome,

The bill is very salty for the multinational of Jeff Bezos.

The Italian authority, which guarantees the proper functioning of competition in the country, imposed a fine of 1.13 billion euros on Amazon for "abuse of a dominant position".

Discrimination

Clearly, the online distribution giant discriminated against sellers who had not used its logistics service;

thus undermining competing operators in electronic commerce.

In a statement, Amazon expressed its deep disagreement with the Italian antitrust and announced that the group will appeal against “ 

 ”.

The statement said that more than 50% of annual sales are generated by small and medium-sized businesses whose success is at the center of Amazon's business model.

For its part, the European Commission welcomes the decision of the Italian competition policeman. 

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