DMA / DSA
€890.0 million fine
Issued on Jul 23, 2026
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.
Regulation context
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
The biggest amounts in the dataset — competition, privacy, and tax rulings.
€13.0 billion fine
Apple
For receiving illegal tax benefits (state aid) from Ireland, which allowed it to pay extraordinarily low effective tax rates.
Issued on Aug 30, 2016
€4.3 billion fine
For illegally imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to strengthen its dominance in general internet search.
Issued on Jul 18, 2018
€2.4 billion fine
For abusing its dominance as a search engine to give an illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.
Issued on Jun 27, 2017
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Newest first. Amounts are shown as published; bars are scaled against the largest EUR-equivalent in this list.
DMA / DSA
€890.0 million fine
Issued on Jul 23, 2026
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.
DMA / DSA
€120.0 million fine
Issued on Dec 5, 2025
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.
Privacy
€530.0 million fine
Issued on May 2, 2025
Irish DPC fine for GDPR breaches in transferring EEA user personal data to China and related transparency failures about those transfers.
DMA / DSA
€500.0 million fine
Issued on Apr 23, 2025
For breaching Digital Markets Act anti-steering rules by restricting app developers from informing iOS users about alternative offers outside the App Store.
DMA / DSA
€200.0 million fine
Issued on Apr 23, 2025
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).
Competition
€797.7 million fine
Issued on Nov 14, 2024
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.
Competition
PLN 155.0 million fine
Issued on Sep 16, 2024
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.
Competition
€413.2 million fine
Issued on Jul 30, 2024
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.
Competition
€1.8 billion fine
Issued on Mar 4, 2024
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.
Privacy
€1.2 billion fine
Issued on May 22, 2023
For illegally transferring EU users’ personal data to the US, violating data protection rules.
Privacy
€390.0 million fine
Issued on Jan 4, 2023
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.
Privacy
€265.0 million fine
Issued on Nov 28, 2022
Irish DPC fine related to a Facebook personal data scraping incident affecting hundreds of millions of users, following an EDPB dispute-resolution process.
Privacy
€405.0 million fine
Issued on Sep 5, 2022
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.
Privacy
€150.0 million fine
Issued on Jan 6, 2022
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.
Privacy
€60.0 million fine
Issued on Jan 6, 2022
French CNIL fine against Facebook for making cookie refusal more difficult than acceptance, in breach of French ePrivacy rules.
Privacy
€225.0 million fine
Issued on Sep 2, 2021
Irish DPC fine for failing GDPR transparency obligations toward WhatsApp users and non-users, including clarity on data sharing with other Facebook companies.
Privacy
€746.0 million fine
Issued on Jul 16, 2021
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).
Competition
€12.6 million fine
Issued on Mar 25, 2019
European Commission fine for restricting cross-border sales of licensed football club and federation merchandising products within the EEA.
Competition
€1.5 billion fine
Issued on Mar 20, 2019
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.
Competition
€4.3 billion fine
Issued on Jul 18, 2018
For illegally imposing restrictions on Android device manufacturers and mobile network operators to strengthen its dominance in general internet search.
Competition
€997.0 million fine
Issued on Jan 24, 2018
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.
Tax / state aid
€250.0 million fine
Issued on Oct 4, 2017
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.
Competition
€2.4 billion fine
Issued on Jun 27, 2017
For abusing its dominance as a search engine to give an illegal advantage to its own comparison shopping service.
Tax / state aid
€13.0 billion fine
Issued on Aug 30, 2016
For receiving illegal tax benefits (state aid) from Ireland, which allowed it to pay extraordinarily low effective tax rates.
Competition
€494.6 million fine
Issued on Jul 19, 2016
For participating in a 14-year truck manufacturing cartel that fixed prices and coordinated on passing on costs of new emissions technologies.
Competition
€752.7 million fine
Issued on Jul 19, 2016
For participating in a 14-year truck manufacturing cartel that fixed prices and coordinated on passing on costs of new emissions technologies.
Competition
€561.0 million fine
Issued on Mar 6, 2013
For breaching commitments to offer users a choice of web browsers, after Microsoft failed to include a promised Browser Choice screen in Windows updates.
Competition
€313.0 million fine
Issued on Dec 5, 2012
For participation in a cartel related to price-fixing of cathode ray tubes used in televisions and computer monitors.
Competition
€1.1 billion fine
Issued on May 13, 2009
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.
Competition
€899.0 million fine
Issued on Feb 27, 2008
For failing to comply with a 2004 EU antitrust order (not providing required interoperability information on reasonable terms).
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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.
Regulation context
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