Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

This is not a question of the Luxembourg tax regime or their rules, this is a question of how rules are actually applied.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

Some claim that our cases involving Internet giants such as Apple or Google are evidence of bias. Well, that is a fallacy, yes, U.S. companies are often involved when we investigate the digital industry. But you will also see many Japanese firms in our car-part cartel cases.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

On the formal investigation when it comes to Android, we still haven't finalised that. So it is still open whether it will go one way or the other, we looked into the case before we formally opened it and of course the reason why we put quite a lot of resources into it is because we have concerns if things are as they should be, if totally by the book.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager

It is clear that obtaining information is both challenging and time consuming. We do not necessarily get the information the first time or the second time. Therefore we will not meet the first deadline to be done by the end of the second quarter. We will do our best, i will not give deadlines for the finalisation of these cases.

Commissioner Margrethe Vestager