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The eCommerce giant claimed that the Italian suit should be folded into a wider EU antitrust investigation.
Amazon has filed a lawsuit against EU antitrust regulators for allowing the Italian competition watchdog to pursue its own case against the company, arguing that it should be undertaken as part of a wider EU investigation.
The case was filed in the Luxembourg-based General Court – the second-highest court in Europe – and seeks to annul the EU’s decision to allow the Italian Competition Authority to undertake its own investigation, according to a court filing.
“When the European Commission decides to investigate a matter, European law says that national competition authorities cannot investigate the same topic,” Amazon said in a statement.