The Spanish antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had determined that U.S. tech giant Amazon operates as a mail service in Spain and has to comply with specific rules within one month.
FILE PHOTO: An Amazon package is delivered and left at the door during the coronavirus disease outbreak in El Masnou, north to Barcelona, Spain, March 26, 2020. REUTERS/ Albert Gea
MADRID - The Spanish antitrust watchdog said on Tuesday it had determined that U.S. tech giant AmazonThe CNMC, as the regulator is known, opened an investigation in February as it sought to find out whether Amazon had to abide by rules on labour, tax, privacy and immigration as other mail services do in Spain.
It gave Amazon one month to declare itself as a mail operator and to fulfil the sector’s rules, such as data and users privacy, as well as guaranteeing that its delivery workers fulfil CNMC requirements. In 2018, Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM fined Amazon 300,000 euros for offering postal services without proper authorisation.
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