Abstract:This article discusses the EU General Court’s Google Shopping judgment (Case T-612/17), which deals with online self-preferencing. Self-preferencing is a novel abuse of dominant position (Article 102 TFEU), which consists of the prominent display and positioning of the dominant undertaking’s own service (comparison shopping service in this case), and demotion of the competitors’ services, on webpages generated by the dominant undertaking’s general search services. The key-principles in the legal reasoning of t… Show more
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