EU ruling: Apple’s App Store still in violation of DMA, 30 days to comply

The European Commission has officially published its full ruling against Apple’s App Store practices in the European Union, and the message is clear: the company’s new “DMA-compliant” terms… still aren’t compliant. Fix it up, or pay up Following its initial €500 million fine in April, the European Commission is now giving Apple 30 days to fully align its App Store rules with the Digital Markets Act (DMA). If it fails to comply, the EU says it will start imposing “periodic penalty payments” until Apple does: “In view of the seriousness of Apple’s non-compliance with Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925, as established in this Decision and considering that the non-compliance has been found to be on-going, the Commission concludes that it is necessary to impose periodic penalty payments pursuant to Article 31(1), point (h), of Regulation (EU) 2022/1925 if Apple were to fail to implement measures that bring the infringement effectively to an end within 60 calendar days from the dat ... Read full article.