The Netherlands Authority for Consumers and Markets (or ACM) has reportedly rejected Apple’s proposed App Store modifications that might let relationship app builders use third-party fee methods, according to 9to5Mac and the Coalition for App Fairness. The Dutch regulator ordered the change in December and has been going backwards and forwards with the corporate over the way it must be applied — and charging Apple tens of millions in fines alongside the best way. Now, Apple might face additional penalties.

According to a journalist’s tweet translated by 9to5Mac, the regulator says Apple’s most up-to-date proposal for letting builders use third-party fee methods is an “improvement” over its earlier concepts, but it surely’s nonetheless “not sufficient to comply with European and Dutch regulations.” Apple and the ACM didn’t instantly reply to The Verge’s request for remark.

Apple’s newest proposal, which it submitted on March twenty seventh, mentioned that relationship app devs might use both a third-party fee system or Apple’s, not each, and that builders must warn customers they have been about to work together with a system that Apple didn’t management. The similar is true if the developer sends customers to its web site to finish a purchase order.

Apple additionally mentioned that builders utilizing different fee methods would nonetheless owe the corporate a 27 % fee on in-app gross sales, in comparison with the 30 % it takes from most in-app funds utilizing its personal system. (If the builders made lower than $1 million in income a yr, that’d be extremely unfavorable in comparison with Apple’s Small Business Program price of 15 %.)

Apple had beforehand proposed that relationship app builders — the one individuals affected by the ACM’s order — ought to must submit separate variations of their apps for the Netherlands. Its plan in March dropped that requirement after the regulator rejected the earlier proposal for being “unreasonable.”

In late March, the ACM mentioned it was evaluating Apple’s proposal after fining the corporate roughly $55 million. The regulator mentioned it “may impose another order subject to periodic penalty payments (with possibly higher penalties this time around)” if it discovered that Apple’s proposal wasn’t enough. It had been evaluating penalties on a weekly foundation, charging the corporate €5 million (round $5.6 million) every week it didn’t comply — as much as a most of €50 million (round $55 million on the time). Now that the cap has been reached, the regulator is reportedly engaged on further penalties, saying that the originals “did not have the desired result.”

The Coalition for App Fairness has applauded the ACM’s resolution. The advocacy group is made up of corporations like Epic Games, Spotify, Basecamp, and Match Group (which makes relationship apps corresponding to Tinder, Match.com, and OkCupid) who’re against the App Store’s excessive charges and function because the singular place to get software program for iPhones and iPads. In a statement released on Monday, the group mentioned that it “stands ready to support the ACM as it continues to seek fair treatment and remedies for developers,” at the same time as Apple “continues to dig in its heels to protect its monopoly power at all costs.”

The coalition additionally mentioned that Apple’s rejected proposal “imposed unnecessary requirements creating friction with the aim to discourage dating app developers from taking advantage of the ACM order.”