Google has been fined €890m by the EU for promoting its own apps over competitors.

Google has been fined €890m (£759m) for abusing its power to prioritize its own apps and services over those of its competitors.

The historic legislation aimed at curbing the power of the world’s biggest tech companies under the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) is the first major move against the tech giant.

The Commission argued that Google’s practices limited consumer choice and gave its own service an unfair advantage over its competitors.

But the organization criticized the decision, arguing that EU requirements could harm services used by millions of European customers.

“To comply, we need to break down the real-time search features Europeans love – like instant pricing and live bookings for hotels, flights and restaurants – and security protections on Google Play,” said Kent Walker, Google’s president of global affairs.

“This is not a fair competition.”

EU officials have rejected that argument, saying the measures are necessary to protect major platforms from harming rivals.

The total fine handed down to Google covers two separate DMA violations.

The European Commission fined Google €460m after it found it was offering its own services to help people rank flights and hotels in search results above competitors.

And it fined the company a further €430m over its Play Store rules, which regulators said prevented people from seeing cheaper deals outside of Google’s marketplace.