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In parallel to the opening of proceedings, the Commission has adopted a Preliminary Assessment summarizing the main facts of the case and identifying its competition concerns. To address the Commission's concerns, SAP may now submit commitments. The Commission will now carry out its in-depth investigation as a matter of priority. The opening of a formal investigation does not prejudge its outcome. SAP confirms that the European Commission has started formal proceedings involving the company. These proceedings address some areas of SAP's on-premise maintenance and support policies, which, according to an SAP statement, \u201eare based on long-standing standards that are common across the global software sector.\" SAP believes that its policies and actions are fully in line with competition rules. However, the company wants to take the issues raised seriously and work closely with the EU Commission to resolve them. SAP does not anticipate the engagement with the European Commission to result in material impacts on its financial performance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition<\/em>,
European Commission<\/em><\/p>

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\"Thousands of companies across Europe use SAP\u2019s software to run their business, as well as its related maintenance and support services. We are concerned that SAP may have restricted competition in this crucial aftermarket, by making it harder for rivals to compete, leaving European customers with fewer choices and higher costs. This is why we want to have a closer look at SAP\u2019s potentially distortive business practices, to make sure that companies that rely on SAP\u2019s software can freely choose the maintenance and support services that best fits their business needs\u201c, says Teresa Ribera, Executive Vice-President for Clean, Just and Competitive Transition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Official communication from the EU Commission<\/a> (available in English, German and French)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The EU Commission has opened a formal investigation to assess whether SAP may have distorted competition in the aftermarket for maintenance and support services related to an on-premises type of software, licensed by SAP, used for the management of companies' business operations, in the European Economic Area.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":155782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[44299],"coauthors":[39720],"class_list":["post-155781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sap-nachrichten","tag-eu-komision","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"featured_image_urls_v2":{"full":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-400x180.jpg",400,180,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-768x346.jpg",768,346,true],"large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"image-100":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-100x45.jpg",100,45,true],"image-480":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-480x216.jpg",480,216,true],"image-640":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-640x288.jpg",640,288,true],"image-720":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-720x324.jpg",720,324,true],"image-960":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-960x432.jpg",960,432,true],"image-1168":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"image-1440":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"image-1920":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"trp-custom-language-flag":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-18x8.jpg",18,8,true],"bricks_large_16x9":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"bricks_large":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"bricks_large_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez.jpg",1000,450,false],"bricks_medium":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-600x270.jpg",600,270,true],"bricks_medium_square":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-600x450.jpg",600,450,true],"profile_24":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-24x24.jpg",24,24,true],"profile_48":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-48x48.jpg",48,48,true],"profile_96":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-96x96.jpg",96,96,true],"profile_150":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"profile_300":["https:\/\/e3mag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/EU-teresa-ribera-rodriguez-300x300.jpg",300,300,true]},"post_excerpt_stackable_v2":"

Die Europ\u00e4ische Kommission hat ein f\u00f6rmliches Pr\u00fcfverfahren eingeleitet, um zu beurteilen, ob SAP durch seine Praktiken im Bereich der Wartungs- und Support-Dienstleistungen f\u00fcr Unternehmenssoftware gegen die EU-Wettbewerbsvorschriften versto\u00dfen hat.<\/p>\n","category_list_v2":"Community Nachrichten<\/a>","author_info_v2":{"name":"E3 Magazine","url":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/author\/e3_magazin\/"},"comments_num_v2":"0 comments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2368"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155781"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155859,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155781\/revisions\/155859"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155781"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e3mag.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=155781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}