Google loses final E.U. appeal over €4.1 billion Android fine
Key takeaways
- Google loses final E.U. appeal over €4.1 billion Android fine Google loses final E.U.
- In September 2022, the E.U.'s General Court lowered the penalty to €4.1 billion from the original €4.34 billion.
- Alphabet stock was about 1% lower in premarket trading following the ruling, CNBC reported.
Google loses final E.U. appeal over €4.1 billion Android fine Google loses final E.U. appeal over €4.1 billion Android fine · Quartz · Nur Photo / Getty Images Colleen Cabili Thu, July 2, 2026 at 8:30 PM GMT+7 2 min read Google lost its final appeal Thursday against a €4.1 billion ($4.7 billion) European Union antitrust fine, as the European Court of Justice dismissed the challenge brought by Alphabet Inc. and its Google subsidiary. The company has no further right to appeal.
"The appeal brought by Google and its parent company Alphabet against the judgment of the General Court is dismissed, thereby confirming the penalty imposed for Google Search's abuse of a dominant position in the context of the Android operating system," the court said.
When regulators first brought the case in 2018, they determined that Google had violated competition rules by tying access to its Play Store app marketplace to manufacturers' agreement to pre-install both Google Search and the Chrome browser on their devices. Beyond those pre-installation requirements, the commission identified two additional violations: certain manufacturers received financial incentives from Google only if they agreed to carry Google Search exclusively, and any manufacturer that wanted to offer a non-Google-certified version of Android was blocked from doing so.