EU antitrust regulators confirmed on Friday that they would not appeal a court ruling scrapping its 997 million euro ($1 billion) fine against Qualcomm, drawing a line under a long-running saga.
Reuters reported last month that the European Commission
would not appeal the General Court’s June judgment because of the difficulty of
winning over the European Court of Justice, Europe’s highest.
“The Commission has carefully studied the judgment of the
General Court in the Qualcomm (exclusivity payments) case and decided not to
appeal to the Court of Justice,” a spokesperson said in an email.
The General Court had slammed the EU competition enforcer
for procedural irregularities, in particular, its records of meetings and
conference calls with third parties, which impacted Qualcomm’s rights of defense.
The Commission said it would continue to protect the
identity of anonymous informants by any means necessary and all confidential
information.
“Such confidential information includes the identity of
third parties who have presented substantiated requests to remain anonymous due
to the risk of retaliation by a party under investigation,” it said.
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