Apple has paid 1.5 billion euros ($1.18 billion) into an escrow account set up by the Irish government to hold 13 billion euros ($16 billion) in disputed taxes, Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe said on Friday.

The European Commission requested Apple in August 2016 to pay the charges it ruled it had gotten as unlawful state help, as a major aspect of its more extensive drive against what it says are sweetheart duty bargains typically utilized by littler states in the coalition to bait multinational organizations and their employments and venture.

Both Apple and Dublin are engaging the decision, saying the iPhone producer’s duty treatment was in accordance with Irish and European Union law.

Last October the Commission said it was taking Dublin to the European Court of Justice over deferrals in recuperating the cash that was expected to be recouped in January 2017, four months on from the underlying decision in August 2016.

The commission has been pressurizing Ireland to recuperate the charges as quickly as time permits to enable it to close the EU Court of Justice’s activity for missing the due date.

Ireland has demanded that it has gone about as quick as it could to encourage gathering and administration of such an expansive entirety.

In March, Ireland designated Amundi, BlackRock Investment Management and Goldman Sachs Asset Management to deal with an escrow record to hold the cash and settle on generally safe speculation choices that ensure the Irish citizen.