HK) for purchasing the majority of their chips from Intel. The General Court of Luxembourg, Europe's second-highest court, slammed the EU competition enforcer's findings and overturned the penalties. "The (European) Commission's analysis is incomplete and does not make it possible to establish to the requisite legal standard that the rebates at issue were capable of having, or likely to have anticompetitive effects," judges said. The entire article of the disputed judgment that imposed a fine of 1.06 billion euros on Intel for the breach was overturned by the court. The Commission stated that it will analyze the decision and consider its options. The same court had affirmed the Commission's 2009 ruling in 2014, but the EU Court of Justice, Europe's top court, ordered Intel's case to be reexamined in 2017. Rebates, particularly those granted by dominant corporations, are often disliked by regulators, who believe they are anti-competitive.