The French regulator estimated that the US platform applies “unbalanced clauses” in the contract it imposes on companies that use its sales platform online.
France has imposed a fine of 3.33 million euros on Amazon for various clauses in the contracts it had with the vendors associated on its platform and which presented & #8220;a significant imbalance” in favor of the American e-commerce giant.
The French anti-fraud service explained this Wednesday in a statement that this fine is a consequence of Amazon’s failure to comply with the instructions it had given on December 20, 2021 to correct the “irregularities” which it had verified in an investigation launched a year earlier.
The General Directorate for Competition, Consumption and Fraud Repression (DGCCRF) specified that the US group had until March 22 2022 to comply, but although it introduced “improvements”, after that date there were still “several points of trade imbalance or clauses that did not comply with the regulation”.
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That is why the fine with which he had been warned is now applied, of 90,000 euros per day of non-compliance, until it was brought into force on April 28.
Amazon already had been sentenced on September 2, 2019 by the Paris Commercial Court to another penalty of 4 million euros for “unbalanced clauses” in the contract that required companies to use its online sales platform.