Investigation Conducted Concerning 6 Undertakings Producing Ready-Mix Concrete in the Central District of the Erzincan Province Was Concluded (20.9.2013)
Competition Board concluded the investigation it conducted in order to determine whether the ready-mix concrete producing undertakings operating in the Central District of the Erzincan Province violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 by practices aimed at jointly determining their terms of sales.
The investigation was initiated in response to the complaint applications claiming that ready-mix concrete producers in Erzincan carried out their sales via the joint company they established via collusion and that they implemented price increases for concrete at nearly 40%. In the investigation phase, it was examined whether undertakings in question established a joint sales system in order to coordinate terms of sales for reay-mix concrete and whether competition-sensitive information was exchanged under this system within the framework of article 4 of the Act no 4054.
As a result fo the discussion of the contents of the file by the Competition Board on 17.09.2013, it was decided that1. Betaşcan İnşaat Mad. Petrol Oto ve Nak. San. Tic. Paz. Ltd. Şti.,
2. Erzincan Teknik Hazır Beton İnş. Taah. Nak. Mad. İth. İhr. San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.,
3. İlkadım Maden Petrol İnş. Emlak ve Nak. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti.,
4. İşbirlik Hafriyat İnş. Taah. Tic. ve San. Ltd. Şti.,
5. Koru Gayrimenkul Yatırım İnşaat A.Ş., and
6. Öz Çakıroğlu İnşaat San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.
violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by concluding joint sales agreements and by exchanging competition-sensitive information, and therefore administrative fines should be imposed on the undertakings concerned.
Click here for the text of the pronouncement (in Turkish) for the decision dated 17.09.2013 and numbered 13-54/755-315, the reasoned version of which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.