OREANDA-NEWS. France’s antitrust regulator fined Google’s € 150 million for anticompetitive behavior. This is stated in a message published on Friday on the agency’s website. "The regulator has applied sanctions to Google for the fact that the company has abused its dominant position in the search advertising market by adopting opaque and difficult to understand rules for the operation of its Google Ads platform", the statement said.

“Thus, the regulator imposes a fine of € 150 million and orders Google to clarify the drafting of the rules for the operation of Google Ads”, the statement said.

According to the newspaper Le Monde, this isn't the first time that the American digital giant is accused of abuse of a dominant position. The company was fined several times by the European Commission for anti-competitive practices. The amount of fines, according to the publication, over the past two years exceeded € 8 billion. The last time Google was fined in March 2019 in the amount of € 1.49 billion for violating the EU antitrust rules.