London | The European Union’s highest court delivered the 27-nation bloc a major victory on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) in its years-long campaign to regulate the technology industry, ruling against Apple and Google in two landmark legal cases.

The decisions, issued by the Court of Justice of the European Union, were seen as an important test of efforts in Europe to clamp down on the world’s largest technology companies. Apple and Google have been frequent targets for EU regulators, and the companies have battled the cases with appeals.