Nintendo Fights EU Fine
Posted in News, Politics
A $149.1 million euro fine levied against Nintendo by EU regulators has recently been challenged by the video game company as being irrational and discriminatory. Lawyers for Nintendo claim that the penalty is “unfair, illegal, even shocking” and “one of the biggest single fines in EU competition law.”
The fine, imposed by the European Commission in 2002, was a penalty for alleged price fixing and collusion between Nintendo and seven distributors. The fine totaled $167.8 million euros and covered activity between 1991 and 1998.
Xavier Lewis, a lawyer for the European Commission stated:
The fine was not of a capricious nature, or based on wild estimates…. This fine was for an infringement that was considered very serious.
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