EU regulators will not appeal Qualcomm ruling, ending saga

By Foo Yun Chee

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – EU antitrust regulators confirmed on Friday that they might not enchantment a courtroom ruling scrapping its 997 million euro ($1 billion) positive in opposition to Qualcomm, drawing a line below a long-running saga.

Reuters reported final month that the European Fee wouldn’t enchantment the Common Court docket’s June judgment due to the problem of successful over the European Court docket of Justice, Europe’s highest.

“The Fee has fastidiously studied the judgment of the Common Court docket within the Qualcomm (exclusivity funds) case and determined to not enchantment to the Court docket of Justice,” a spokesperson mentioned in an e mail.

The Common Court docket had slammed the EU competitors enforcer for procedural irregularities, specifically, its information of conferences and convention calls with third events, which impacted Qualcomm’s rights of defence.

The Fee mentioned it will proceed to guard the id of nameless informants by any means needed and all confidential data.

“Such confidential data contains the id of third events who’ve offered substantiated requests to stay nameless as a result of danger of retaliation by a celebration below investigation,” it mentioned.

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(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; Modifying by Alexander Smith)