The EU's General Court accepted most of the Commission's assessments on Google's anti-competitive practices but annulled the €1.5 billion fine due to oversight in assessing contractual duration.
Margrethe Vestager, the EU's competition chief, justified the €1.5 billion fine by arguing it reflected "serious and sustained nature" of Google's anti-competitive actions that restricted third-party websites.
Google stated that the case concerned a narrow subset of text-only search ads and noted that they had already made changes to their contracts in 2016 to address concerns.
The commission acknowledged the ruling and stated it would carefully study the judgment and consider its next steps in relation to enforcing competition against Google.
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