The meta platforms and Tikok said that a European Union supervisory fee imposed on them was inconsistent and based on a flawless functioning as he fought his fight with tech regulators in Europe’s second largest court on Wednesday.
Below Digital service act It enacted a law in 2022, under two companies and 16 one supervisory fee, which is 0.05 percent of its annual world, which aims to cover the cost of the European Commission to monitor the European Commission law.
The annual fee size is based on the number of average monthly active users for each company and whether the company posts profit or loss in the previous financial year.
Meta The general court told the judges that it was not trying to avoid paying its proper part of the fee, but asked how the commission had calculated the levy, saying that it was based on the revenue of the group rather than the assistant.
Meta’s lawyer Asimkis Cominos told a panel of five judges that the company still did not know how the fee was calculated.
He said that the provisions in the Digital Services Act, or DSA, “go against the letters and the spirit of law, are completely untrue with black boxes and have led to a completely impossible and absurd results”.
Bidens-No Chinese online social media platform Tikokok Was equally important.
“Whatever has happened is anything but fair or proportional. The fee has used incorrect figures and discriminatory methods,” Tickek’s lawyer Bill Betteller told the court.
He said, “It increases the fees of tickets, it requires not only for themselves, but for other platforms and excessive fees cap,” he said.
He accused the users of the companies of double counting, saying that it was discriminated against as the user would be counted twice to users switching between their mobile phones and laptops.
He also said that the regulators had crossed their legal power by set a fee cap at the level of profit of the group.
The commission’s lawyer Lorna Armati rejected the arguments of the two companies and defended the use of the Group Benefits as a reference price to calculate the supervisory fee.
“When a group has consolidated the accounts, it is the financial resources of the group that are available to the provider who are available to bear the burden of fees,” he told the court.
He said, “The providers had enough information to understand why the Commission used those numbers and how it did and there is no question of any violation of their rights, unequal treatment,” he said.
The court is expected to issue its decision next year.
Cases are T-55/24 META platform Ireland V Commission and T-58/24 Tiktok Technology V Commission.
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