Italy's AGCM competition watchdog on Monday said it had accepted commitments proposed by Alphabet's unit Google to end a case over the tech giant's alleged abuse of its dominant position in the user data portability market.
The regulator opened the investigation last year following a complaint from Italian start-up company Hoda which accused Google of hindering its users right to share their personal data with other digital service platforms.
In response to the probe, Google proposed some changes to its data backup service in order to enhance users' ability to extract their personal data from the Alphabet unit's services, the regulator said in a statement.
The company also pledged to make available a test version of a tool it is developing to enable other digital service operators to access personal data that users generate through their activity on Alphabet' services, the statement said.
The new tool will be officially released next year.
"All in all, the authority deemed Google's commitments as suitable to remove concerns over competition," the AGCM said.
Last year it said the alleged abuse could "constrain the economic benefits that consumers can derive from their data".
Google faced a fine of up to 10 percent of its annual global sales if found guilty of abusing its position.
The company had no immediate comment on Monday.
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