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Wingerter, E., 2025 Comment on the judgment of the ECJ of 25.2.2025, C-233/23 - Alphabet and Google. Journal of International Business Law, 2025(4), pp.193-197.
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Article 102 TFEU must be interpreted as meaning that the refusal by a dominant undertaking which has developed a digital platform to ensure, at the request of a third undertaking, the interoperability of that platform with an application developed by that third undertaking may constitute an abuse of a dominant position, even though that platform, although not indispensable for the commercial exploitation of the application on a downstream market, is capable of making that application more attractive to consumers, where that platform has not been developed by the dominant undertaking exclusively for the purposes of its own activities.
Keywords
Dominant position
Digital economy
European law
Antitrust law