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The unconfirmed report citing people familiar with the situation do no detail the steps that Apple will take. We will update this story with more information as we get it.

In April of 2007, the Commission charged Apple and the four major record companies with violating EU rules on restrictive business practices by specifying that

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consumers can only buy music from the local version of iTunes. The Commission said at the time that it believed the record labels were responsible, having forced Apple to run a different version of iTunes for each EU country, with higher prices in the UK.

Apple responded to the charges in June, though the contents of its submission were not made public.

In September, Apple chief executive Steve Jobs said that he wanted prices across Europe to be the same with no national restrictions on purchases. But at around the same time Apple representatives including Eddy Cue, who heads the company's iTunes division, were telling EU officials that at least one label, Universal, had imposed no restrictions on where Apple could sell tracks.