France has imposed a fine of 3.33 million euros on Amazon for various clauses in the contracts it had with the sellers associated with its platform and that they presented "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 the result of Amazon’s failure to comply with the instructions it had given on December 20, 2021 to correct the "irregularities" that he 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"subsisted after that date "various points of trade imbalance or clauses not in accordance with the regulation".
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 had already 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.
The e-commerce giant reacted to this new fine by stressing that it is "in disagreement with the conclusions, decisions and the sanction imposed by the DGCCRF".
That’s why Amazon added "we will go to court, while we remain committed to offering the best experience to our customers and business partners".
