An Indian court has ordered Apple to cooperate with the country’s competition watchdog in the ongoing App Store antitrust case, while refusing to halt the proceedings entirely. Here are the details.
Apple India refuses to pause App Store antitrust investigation
As frequent 9to5Mac readers know, Apple is locked in an antitrust dispute with India’s competition watchdog over the App Store, and the fight is increasingly focused on how much access regulators have to the company’s global financial data.
Earlier this month Apple is charged The Competition Commission of India (CCI) overstepped its judicial powers after the watchdog gave an ultimatum requires the company to provide financial information.
From Reuters:
After the CCI issued an ultimatum to Apple this month to submit its financial statements and scheduled a final hearing on May 21, the company urged the Delhi High Court to intervene urgently to stay the matter.
At the heart of this aspect of the dispute is Apple’s disagreement with India’s updated competition law, which allows potential fines to be calculated based on a company’s global turnover rather than just its domestic revenue.
Apple challenged this penalty framework in court, and as part of that fight, sought to halt the CCI’s main App Store proceedings while challenging the legality of the law itself.
Meanwhile, the regulator He accused Apple Repeatedly extending time and delaying the case while resisting requests to provide financial information that the CCI said it should bring forward.
Following this, the Delhi High Court has now told Apple to “cooperate fully” with the CCI’s proceedings. The court did not grant Apple’s request to stay the case, although it prevented the regulator from making a final decision before the case returns to court on July 15.
The court also allowed Apple to bring certain documents (without specifying those documents in the order) as part of its broader challenge to India’s antitrust penalty framework.
You can read the court’s full decision below:
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