Regulation context

EU fines, in one place.

A curated set of public EU fines and penalties linked to brand pages on EUROVA. Use them as context on vendor risk — not as a black-and-white score.

30

Records

16

Brands

€35.4B

EUR total (approx.)

Largest on record

€13.0 billion fine

Apple

All fines

Newest first. Amounts are shown as published; bars are scaled against the largest EUR-equivalent in this list.

Google

DMA / DSA

€890.0 million fine

Issued on Jul 23, 2026

Scale vs largest7%

Two Digital Markets Act non-compliance decisions: €460 million for self-preferencing Google’s own services in Search, and €430 million for anti-steering restrictions on Google Play.

X

DMA / DSA

€120.0 million fine

Issued on Dec 5, 2025

Scale vs largest4%

For breaching Digital Services Act transparency obligations, including a deceptive paid 'blue checkmark' verification design, an inadequate advertising repository, and failure to provide researchers with access to public data.

TikTok

Privacy

€530.0 million fine

Issued on May 2, 2025

Scale vs largest4%

Irish DPC fine for GDPR breaches in transferring EEA user personal data to China and related transparency failures about those transfers.

Apple

DMA / DSA

€500.0 million fine

Issued on Apr 23, 2025

Scale vs largest4%

For breaching Digital Markets Act anti-steering rules by restricting app developers from informing iOS users about alternative offers outside the App Store.

Meta

DMA / DSA

€200.0 million fine

Issued on Apr 23, 2025

Scale vs largest4%

For breaching Digital Markets Act rules requiring a less-personalised equivalent service when users refuse consent to combine personal data across Meta services (pay-or-consent model).

Meta

Competition

€797.7 million fine

Issued on Nov 14, 2024

Scale vs largest6%

For abusing dominance by tying Facebook Marketplace to Facebook and imposing unfair trading conditions on rival online classified ads providers that advertise on Meta platforms.

Iveco

Competition

PLN 155.0 million fine

Issued on Sep 16, 2024

Scale vs largest4%

The Polish antimonopoly office (UOKiK) fined Iveco's Polish unit 155 million PLN (approximately €34.7 million) for participating in a cartel with local distributors between 2009 and 2019.

Booking.com

Competition

€413.2 million fine

Issued on Jul 30, 2024

Scale vs largest4%

Spanish competition authority (CNMC) fine for abusing a dominant position by imposing unfair trading conditions on Spanish hotels and restricting competition from other online travel agencies.

Apple

Competition

€1.8 billion fine

Issued on Mar 4, 2024

Scale vs largest14%

For abusing its dominant App Store position by imposing anti-steering provisions that prevented music streaming apps from informing iOS users about cheaper subscriptions outside the app.

Meta

Privacy

€1.2 billion fine

Issued on May 22, 2023

Scale vs largest9%

For illegally transferring EU users’ personal data to the US, violating data protection rules.

Meta

Privacy

€390.0 million fine

Issued on Jan 4, 2023

Scale vs largest4%

Irish DPC fines totalling €390 million (€210 million for Facebook and €180 million for Instagram) for unlawfully relying on 'contract' as the legal basis for behavioural advertising under GDPR.

Meta

Privacy

€265.0 million fine

Issued on Nov 28, 2022

Scale vs largest4%

Irish DPC fine related to a Facebook personal data scraping incident affecting hundreds of millions of users, following an EDPB dispute-resolution process.

Instagram

Privacy

€405.0 million fine

Issued on Sep 5, 2022

Scale vs largest4%

Irish DPC fine for GDPR breaches in processing children's personal data on Instagram, including public-by-default accounts for teens and exposure of contact details on business accounts.

Google

Privacy

€150.0 million fine

Issued on Jan 6, 2022

Scale vs largest4%

French CNIL fine for making it easier to accept cookies than to refuse them on Google services (including YouTube), in breach of French ePrivacy rules.

Meta

Privacy

€60.0 million fine

Issued on Jan 6, 2022

Scale vs largest4%

French CNIL fine against Facebook for making cookie refusal more difficult than acceptance, in breach of French ePrivacy rules.

WhatsApp

Privacy

€225.0 million fine

Issued on Sep 2, 2021

Scale vs largest4%

Irish DPC fine for failing GDPR transparency obligations toward WhatsApp users and non-users, including clarity on data sharing with other Facebook companies.

Amazon

Privacy

€746.0 million fine

Issued on Jul 16, 2021

Scale vs largest6%

Luxembourg CNPD GDPR fine against Amazon Europe Core for processing personal data for targeted advertising without a valid legal basis / adequate transparency (appealed; decision confirmed in Amazon disclosures).

Nike

Competition

€12.6 million fine

Issued on Mar 25, 2019

Scale vs largest4%

European Commission fine for restricting cross-border sales of licensed football club and federation merchandising products within the EEA.

Google

Competition

€1.5 billion fine

Issued on Mar 20, 2019

Scale vs largest11%

For abusing its dominance in online search advertising intermediation (AdSense) by imposing restrictive clauses that prevented rivals from placing search ads on third-party websites.

Google

Competition

€4.3 billion fine

Issued on Jul 18, 2018

Scale vs largest33%

For illegally imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to strengthen its dominance in general internet search.

Qualcomm

Competition

€997.0 million fine

Issued on Jan 24, 2018

Scale vs largest8%

For abusing its dominant market position, Qualcomm paid Apple billions between 2011 and 2016 to ensure exclusive use of Qualcomm LTE baseband chipsets in iPhones, thereby excluding competitors.

Amazon

Tax / state aid

€250.0 million fine

Issued on Oct 4, 2017

Scale vs largest4%

For receiving illegal tax advantages (state aid) via a special tax deal, Amazon was ordered to repay back taxes to Luxembourg after an investigation by the European Commission.

Google

Competition

€2.4 billion fine

Issued on Jun 27, 2017

Scale vs largest19%

For abusing its dominance as a search engine to give an illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.

Apple

Tax / state aid

€13.0 billion fine

Issued on Aug 30, 2016

Scale vs largest100%

For receiving illegal tax benefits (state aid) from Ireland, which allowed it to pay extraordinarily low effective tax rates.

Iveco

Competition

€494.6 million fine

Issued on Jul 19, 2016

Scale vs largest4%

For participating in a 14-year truck manufacturing cartel that fixed prices and coordinated on passing on costs of new emissions technologies.

DAF Trucks

Competition

€752.7 million fine

Issued on Jul 19, 2016

Scale vs largest6%

For participating in a 14-year truck manufacturing cartel that fixed prices and coordinated on passing on costs of new emissions technologies.

Microsoft

Competition

€561.0 million fine

Issued on Mar 6, 2013

Scale vs largest4%

For breaching commitments to offer users a choice of web browsers, after Microsoft failed to include a promised Browser Choice screen in Windows updates.

Philips

Competition

€313.0 million fine

Issued on Dec 5, 2012

Scale vs largest4%

For participation in a cartel related to price-fixing of cathode ray tubes used in televisions and computer monitors.

Intel

Competition

€1.1 billion fine

Issued on May 13, 2009

Scale vs largest8%

For abusing its dominant position in the x86 microprocessor market by granting conditional rebates to PC makers (and payments to a retailer) to exclude rival AMD.

Microsoft

Competition

€899.0 million fine

Issued on Feb 27, 2008

Scale vs largest7%

For failing to comply with a 2004 EU antitrust order (not providing required interoperability information on reasonable terms).

How to use this signal

Fines are a starting point for diligence — not a ranking of who to boycott.

Do

Treat a fine as a prompt to read the official decision and update vendor questionnaires.

Don’t

Don’t assume a fine means “never buy.” Many decisions cover specific practices in a specific year.

Do

Prefer vendors that publish clear EU contact points, DPAs, and subprocessors — regardless of fine history.

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