NBCUniversal Fined €14.3 Million as European Commission Completes Trilogy of Sales Restriction Cases

On 30 January 2020, the European Commission (the Commission) fined NBCUniversal and other companies within the Comcast group €14.3 million for imposing anticompetitive restrictions on the sale of licensed merchandise in the European Union (EU). This was the third in a series of cases that the Commission opened following its sector inquiry into online sales, following fines imposed on Nike and Sanrio in 2019.