Italy: The Italian Competition Authority sanctions an Internet giant for abuse of dominant position (Google / Enel)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. 1 million for "misleading classification" of hotels in France and before being sanctioned by the French Competition Authority for abusively favouring its own services in the online advertising sector (decision n° 21-D-11 of 7 June 2021 on practices implemented in the Internet advertising sector), Google was condemned by the Italian competition authority [hereinafter "AGCM"] for refusing to accept on its Google Play platform a competing third-party application developed by the Italian energy group Enel. In the present case, in May 2019, the AGCM opened an investigation following a referral from Enel X Italia [hereinafter "Enel"], which had been refused