The investigation conducted to determine whether Petrol Ofisi A.Ş. (Previous title: OMV Petrol Ofisi A.Ş.), Milan Petrol San. Tic. A.Ş. and TP Petrol Dağıtım A.Ş. violated articles 4 and 6 of the Act no. 4054 through abusing usufruct, restricting freedom of contract and competition unfairly by preventing the dealers from buying autogas LPG from companies other than themselves or LPG distribution firms they designated was concluded.

The investigation was initiated after the decision of 13^th Chamber of the Council of State dated 14.11.2016 and numbered 2010/609 E.; 2016/3707 K. overruled the Board decision dated 01.10.2009 and numbered 09-43/1093-274 to reject the complaint and not to initiate an investigation.

Considering the issues pointed out in the ruling, regarding the investigation conducted according to the decision of the Competition Board dated 20.04.2017 and numbered 17-13/166-M, as a result of the discussion of the content of the file by the Competition Board on 11.01.2018, it was decided that the following undertakings did not violate articles 4 and 6 of the act no 4054; thus, it was not necessary to impose administrative fines according to article 16 of the same Act:

Petrol Ofisi A.Ş.,

Milan Petrol San. Tic. A.Ş. and

TP Petrol Dağıtım A.Ş.

Click here for the text of the pronouncement (in Turkish) dated 11.01.2018 and numbered 18-02/20-10, the reasoned decision for which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.