For added context, Intel still hasn't paid its 2009 fine and has successfully returned it to a lower court in late summer of 2017. The €4.3 billion fine is expected to be officially issued at 1 PM CET, whereas Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai is reportedly already informed of the matter, having been briefed by the European Commission on Tuesday. The sanction will be almost twice the size of the antitrust fine the EU imposed on Google last year due to monopolistic behavior associated with its shopping comparison service, which itself dwarfed Intel's 2009 fine for comparable behavior which amounted to $1.45 billion and was the largest such penalty the political bloc ever resorted to until it turned its attention to Google.