The Commission found AB InBev to be dominant on the Belgian beer market | Emmanuel Dunand/AFP via Getty Images AB InBev fined €200M for beer sales restrictions The world’s biggest brewer abused its dominant position on the Belgian beer market between 2009 and 2016, according to the Commission.

The European Commission said Monday that it fined Belgian-Brazilian beer giant AB InBev €200 million for restricting beer sales from the Netherlands into Belgium.

The world's biggest brewer abused its dominant position on the Belgian beer market between 2009 and 2016 by hindering cheaper imports of its Jupiler beer, the Commission said.

"Consumers in Belgium have been paying more for their favorite beer because of AB InBev's deliberate strategy to restrict cross border sales," European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager said. "Attempts by dominant companies to carve up the Single Market to maintain high prices are illegal."

The Commission found AB InBev to be dominant on the Belgian beer market. The company abused that dominance by pursuing a deliberate strategy of restricting the possibility for supermarkets and wholesalers to buy Jupiler beer at lower prices in the Netherlands and to import it into Belgium, with the overall objective of maintaining higher prices.

The Commission originally investigated imports from France and AB InBev's Leffe beer, but those charges were not retained in today's decision.

AB InBev won a 15 percent fine reduction for cooperating in the procedure. The brewer now needs to ensure that the packaging of all existing and new products in Belgium, France and the Netherlands will include mandatory food information in both Dutch and French for the next five years.