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PRESS RELEASE No 89/24

Luxembourg, 30 May 2024

Judgments of the Court in Joined Cases C-662/22 | Airbnb Ireland and C-667/22 | Amazon Services Europe, Case C-663/22 | Expedia, Joined Cases C-664/22 | Google Ireland and C-666/22 | Eg Vacation Rentals Ireland, and Case C-665/22 | Amazon Services Europe

E-commerce: a Member State may not impose additional obligations on an online service provider established in another Member State

In Italy, providers of online intermediation services and search engines, such as Airbnb, Expedia, Google, Amazon and Vacation Rentals, are subject to certain obligations under national provisions. They were adopted in 2020 and 2021, with the stated aim of ensuring the adequate and effective enforcement of the regulation on promoting fairness and transparency for business users of online intermediation services 1 . Providers of those services must, inter alia, be entered in a register held by an administrative authority (AGCOM), periodically forward to it a document on their economic situation, provide it with a series of detailed information and pay it a financial contribution. Penalties are provided for in the event of failure to comply with those obligations. (...)