Google Subject to New, Tougher Supervision by German Regulator
- Cartel office surveillance period of Google runs to five years
- Fresh powers let regulator target digital giants more quickly
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Alphabet Inc. and its Google unit are subject to Germany’s new regulation targeting large digital companies, the nation’s Federal Cartel Office ruled.
The watchdog can now step in earlier and ban practices it deems anti-competitive, the regulator said in an emailed statement. Google’s “paramount significance for competition across markets” and the fact its economic clout is insufficiently controlled by competition that prompted the ruling, according to the statement.