Uber has filed complaints with the European Commission against Spain and Germany over their bans on the mobile phone taxi-hailing service. The European Commission on Wednesday said it had received a complaint against a German ban on Uber offering its unlicensed services. A spokesman for the company said it had filed a similar complaint against Spain on Monday.

Uber has also filed complaints against a French law it says favors regular taxi companies at its expense.

Uber is facing legal challenges across Europe, where local taxi drivers have taken to both the streets and courts to fight it.Taxi companies argue it competes unfairly because it does not have to pay their steep license fees and bypasses local laws.

To date, Uber has been hit by court injunctions in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain.