Google Android: Key lessons from the CJEU's final judgment

14 July 2026

The Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has delivered its long-awaited judgment in the Google Android case. The judgment upholds the General Court's (GC) 2022 ruling, which had largely confirmed the European Commission's (EC) 2018 decision against Google for abusing its multiple dominant positions in relation to the Android mobile operating system.

The EC held back its updated guidelines on exclusionary abuses under Article 102 TFEU pending this judgment. With the CJEU's ruling on these key legal points now out, the EC has confirmed it intends to publish the guidelines in Q3 this year.

Clifford Chance has been at the heart of this case from the outset, acting for FairSearch, the organisation that made the original complaint to the EC, and for Seznam, a leading Czech search engine and direct competitor of Google that has been damaged by Google’s abuse of its dominant position.

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