European Union fines are dead and Apple to violate the rules of anti -digital monopoly

The European Union was fined on Wednesday apple and Dead Hundreds of millions of euros each to violate the digital competition laws of the mass.

The European Commission, the European Union Executive Authority, said it includes 500 million euros (571 million dollars) and Meta 200 million euros (228.4 million dollars) for the violations of the Digital Market Law (DMA).

The officials said that Apple failed to comply with the so -called “anti -leadership” obligations under DMA. Under the European Union Technology Law, Apple must allow developers to inform customers freely of alternative offers outside their application store.

The European Union has commanded the technology giant to remove technical and commercial restrictions on guidance and refrain from sustaining its unacceptable behavior in the future.

Apple said in a statement that it plans to resume the fine of the European Union while continuing its discussions with the committee.

Apple said: “Today’s ads are another example of the European Commission, which is not fairly targeting Apple in a series of bad decisions of the privacy and security of our users, and bad products, and forcing us to abandon our technology for free.”

The company added: “We spent hundreds of thousands of engineering hours and we made dozens of changes to compliance with this law, none of them asked for them. Despite countless meetings, the committee continues to transfer goals in every step on the road.”

For Meta, the European Union Committee found that the social media group requires illegal users to agree to share their data with the company or pay an advertising free service. This was a response to the introduction of Meta to a paid subscription category for Facebook and Instagram in November 2023.

Joel Kaplan, chief international affairs official in Mita, said in a statement that the committee “is trying to hinder successful American companies while allowing Chinese and European companies to work under various criteria.”

“This is not only a fine,” Kaplan said.

The European Union said that a dead fine took into account the steps taken by the technology giant to comply with its rules through a new version of free customized ads service that uses less personal data to display ads.

The organizers said: “The committee is currently evaluating this new option and continues its dialogue with Meta, and asked the company to provide evidence of the impact of this new advertising model in practice.”

The order to stop stopping by the European Union was sent by the European Union to make changes to the option of less customized ads over the next 60 days or face fines, according to a source familiar with the matter, who asked not to disclose his identity because the information is not general.

The decision to combat monopoly risk a possible revenge by US President Donald Trump, who has not been hidden due to his dissatisfaction with the regulatory regulation measures of the European Union on the digital American giants.

Earlier this month, the Trump administration imposed The so -called “mutual” definitions From 20 % on European Union commodities that enter the United States later New tariff rates decreased On dozens of commercial partners – including the European Union – to 10 % for a limited period of time for trade negotiations.

The mutual definitions came after Trump released earlier a Guidance It threatens to impose a tariff on Europe to combat what he called “extortion abroad” for American technology companies through digital services taxes, fines, practices and policies.