EU fines Apple €500M and Meta €200M for breaking Europe’s digital rules – politico.eu
2025-04-23T10:14:11Z
The highly anticipated penalties are the first to be issued under the bloc’s Digital Markets Act.
In addition to the fine, Apple has been issued with a cease-and-desist order requiring it to make further product changes by late June. If the firm fails to comply, the Commission can fine it for every additional day it is in breach of the law.
The Commission is currently assessing changes that Meta introduced late last year in order to comply with the regulation.
The procedural fines fall short of the two giant penalties issued by the EU executive under its antitrust laws last year: €1.8 billion to Apple for abusing its dominant position while distributing music streaming apps, and €797 million to Meta for pushing its classified ads service on social media users.
A senior EU official said that in determining the penalties announced Wednesday the Commission had been mindful that these are the first fines issued under the DMA and that, for Meta, the infringement stopped in November, only months after Brussels aired its concerns.
In total, the Commission adopted five DMA-related decisions on Wednesday. Along with the noncompliance decisions, both Meta and Apple received a sweetener.
The EU executive announced it has closed an investigation into Apple’s compliance with the DMA’s rules on browsers and default apps following changes that helped competitors like Mozilla gain a foothold on iOS devices.
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