The European Union is scheduled to impose the minimum fines on Apple and Facebook Meta next week under the Digital Market Law, as Brussels seeks to avoid escalating tensions with US President Donald Trump.
According to the persons familiar with the decisions, the iPhone maker is expected to be fined and ordered to review the rules of its application store, following the investigation if they prevent the application developers from sending consumers to offers outside their platform.
Organizers will also close another Apple investigation, which focused on the company’s design for its web browser selection screen without any other sanctions.
Meta will also be fined and ordered to change the “payment or consent” form, which forces users to either agree to track data or pay the subscription fees for an advertising -free experience for its products.
Under DMA, companies can face penalties of up to 10 percent of their global rotation, which may lead to billions of dollars for both companies.
But the European Commission aims to fines less than that threshold.
The movements come at a time when Brussels is trying to apply the DMA application, which is designed to reduce the dominance of technology giants on the digital market, while avoiding a direct clash with Washington.
Officials said the concentration of the new committee, which took office in December, is also the compliance of major technology companies with the law more than possible high fines in billions of euros.