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ucts on Amazon’s Spanish websites ‘which restricted competition’, a CNMC spokesman said.

It launched a probe in July 2021 for ‘possible anti-competition practices in the sectors of in-

SEAT has announced that it will build a vehicle battery cell assembly plant in Martorell, Catalunya.

The car maker - owned by Volkswagen - says the €300 million project will create more than 400 direct jobs.

The new factory will cover an area of 64,000 square meters and will also be used to assemble PowerCo cells that will be made at a new gigafactory in Sagunto, Valencia province, where construction started in March.

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The CNMC said at the time that it had access to ‘certain information’ from which it had found ‘rational indications’ that Amazon and Apple were in breach of laws related to the defence of competition and the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union.

Both firms agreed in 2018 to sign two contracts in which they updated Amazon’s role as an authorised distributor of Apple products.

The CNMC discovered that only a series of distributors approved by Apple could sell its wares via Amazon’s Spanish portals.

“This meant that 90% of resellers on Amazon in Spain who had been selling Apple products were excluded from the country’s main online market,” the watchdog commented. There was also a price rise in Apple products on Amazon, according to the CNMC.

Amazon says it ‘disagrees’ with the ruling and plans to appeal it.