The 1.06 billion Euro ($1.2 Billion) antitrust sanction imposed against U.S. chipmaker Chipmaker has been overturned by a prominent European Union court Intel2009

The European Commission (the executive arm) of the EU handed the fine to Intel on grounds that it had unjustly sought out rivals.

According to the commission, Intel had abused its dominance in the global market for “x862” processors from 2002 through 2007, by adopting a strategy that excluded competitors.

The General Court is a constitutive court of the Court of Justice of the European Union. rejected the fine WednesdayAccording to the Commission, they didn’t conduct an accurate economic analysis of a rebate plan.

In a press release, the General Court declared that “the (European) Commission’s) analysis is incomplete and doesn’t make it possible to establish the requisite legal standards that the rebates in question were capable of having, likely to have anticompetitive consequences.”

The 2009 verdict of the Commission was upheld by the General Court in 2014. It was however, told in 2017 by the EU Court of Justice (Europe’s highest court), to reexamine Intel’s appeal.

CNBC did not receive an immediate response from Intel to our request for comment.