Google Antitrust Investigation and High Court Case; Statement of ICOMP (original) (raw)

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ICOMP Council member,
Google EU antitrust complainant.

• ICOMP supports Streetmap’s position. The European Commission has issued a Statement of Objections and is currently investigating Google’s abuse of its dominant position in online search. That investigation first looked into online price comparison shopping and the Commission has stated repeatedly it will also be looking into online maps, news and other affected online markets in due course. Google has a special responsibility as a dominant company to comply with the law and the burden of proof is on Google to show that it has complied. It is surprising that the High Court thinks online competition will be protected from a dominant company’s abuse if online companies have to wait until the damage has been done to show they have been harmed.