The European Commission has withdrawn its court action against Ireland over taxes it is owed by Apple.
The commission said this follows confirmation by Ireland that all the funds have been paid.
It has therefore decided to withdraw its court action.
On August 30th 2016, the commission adopted a State aid decision - finding that Ireland had granted undue tax benefits of up to €13bn to the technology company.
The commission concluded that these tax benefits were illegal under EU State aid rules, as they allowed Apple to pay substantially less tax on profits recorded in Ireland than other companies.
It ordered Ireland to recover the amount of taxes that should have been paid by Apple.
The deadline for Ireland to do this was January 3rd, 2017.
But on September 6th this year, Ireland completed the recovery of the aid.
A total of €14.3bn - including interest - was repaid by Apple into an escrow fund pending the final judgments of the EU courts.
In a statement on Thursday, the European Commission said: "Taking into account that the payment into the escrow fund of the illegal aid removed the distortion of competition caused by that aid, the commission has today decided to withdraw the court action."