Apple's €1.1B French distribution fine, cut to €372M
€372M
≈ $402M at the time
Autorité de la concurrence
France · 2020
Status: Reduced
What happened
France's competition authority fined Apple over anticompetitive agreements with premium resellers that froze the reseller market and kept prices aligned. On appeal the fine was cut to €372M.
How it affected users
French consumers likely paid higher, more uniform prices for Apple products.
Status timeline
Mar 16, 2020
Original fine of €1.1B imposed.
Effective amount: ≈ $1.2B
Oct 6, 2022
Reduced to €372M by the Paris Court of Appeal.
Effective amount: ≈ $402M
May 13, 2026
The Cour de cassation dismissed the further appeal against the Court of Appeal ruling.
Sources
- Autorité de la concurrence: decision 20-D-04 on Apple distributionregulator
- Autorité de la concurrence: 2020 decisions that were appealed, and their outcomeregulator
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Cite this entry
Deepak Gupta, "Apple's €1.1B French distribution fine, cut to €372M," Tech Fines Directory, guptadeepak.com, 2020-03-16. https://guptadeepak.com/tech-fines/violation/apple-france-distribution-2020/