Google and Alphabet v Commission (Google Shopping)

Case C‑48/22 PGoogle LLCand Alphabet, Inc.v European Commission Judgment of the Court (Grand Chamber) of 10 September 2024( Appeal – Competition – Abuse of dominant position – Markets for online general search services and specialised product search services – Decision finding an infringement of Article 102 TFEU and Article 54 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area (EEA) – Leveraging abuse – Competition on the merits or anticompetitive practice – Dominant undertaking favouring the display of results from its own specialised search service – Potential anticompetitive effects – Causal link between abuse and effects – Burden of proof – Counterfactual scenario – Capability of foreclosing – ‘As-efficient competitor’ test )1.        Appeal – Admissibility – Appeal based on an allegedly distorted presentation of the facts established in the judgment under appeal – Criticism falling within the scope of whether that judgment is well founded(Art. 256(1) TFEU; Statute of the Court of Justice, Art. 58, first para.)(see paragraphs 60-62)2.        Dominant position – Abuse – Concept – Access to infrastructure developed and owned by a dominant undertaking – Access provided to competing undertakings subject to unfair conditions – Conduct constituting an abuse of a dominant position – Conditions(Article 102 TFEU)(see paragraphs 79-91, 110-114)3.        Dominant position – Abuse – Concept – Objective concept relating to conduct which is such as to influence the structure of a market...