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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

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.