The Senate voted Thursday, April 16 unanimously coaching search engine via an amendment to the draft legislation Macron, without naming it, Google.
The economy minister Emmanuel Macron, objected to the amendment of the Chair of the Committee of Culture and Communication, Catherine Morin-Desailly (UDI-UC), finding that, on this, the right level of intervention was European level.
The European Commission on Wednesday accused Google of abuse of dominance in Internet search, which could earn him a huge fine of $ 6 billion.
It also opened a separate investigation to determine whether the US giant did not violate EU competition rules with its operating system for mobile phones Android.
“It is urgent to act”
But for Catherine Morin-Desailly, “European procedures are slow,” “and” it is urgent to act “” given the adverse consequences qu’occasionnent some of their practices for our companies “, while Search engines are the main gateway to the Internet. However, the behavior of some of them “undermines the pluralism of ideas and opinions, discourages innovation and hinders freedom of enterprise,” she began.
Her Amendment provides in part that a search engine operator makes available to the user on the home page, a way to see at least three other search engines without legal relationship with him. It also needs to provide users of the information on the general principles of classification or SEO offer.
In case of failure, the Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Posts (ARCEP) may impose a fine can be up to 10% of the worldwide turnover of the search engine.
The Senate also adopted an amendment to the amendment tabled by the Socialist David Assouline, providing at least one of the three search engines made dispostion of the user “is in France”.
(with AFP)
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