The investigation, which was conducted in order to determine whether Biletix Bilet Dağıtım Basım ve Ticaret A.Ş. (BİLETİX) violated the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by the contracts it made with its customers, was concluded.

The investigation was conducted with the purpose of determining whether BİLETİX, which offer services related to selling tickets for sports, entertainment, etc. events, violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 through its contracts including exclusivity exceeding one year and relevant practices. In the investigation phase, foreclosure effects by the contracts which the aforementioned undertaking made with sports clubs and organizers and its relevant practices were examined.

As a result of the discussion of the contents of the file by the Competition Board on 05.11.2013, it was decided that the agreements BİLETİX made with its customers and its actual practices did not violate article 4 of the Act no 4054 by creating foreclosure effects in the market for agency services for electronic sales of event tickets via a platform; therefore administrative fines should not be imposed to the aforementioned undertaking according to Article 16 of the same Act. In addition, it was required that the term of contracts regarding all events shall be limited to two years, considering the market power of BİLETİX and the structure of the market in Turkey, which is developing and expanding.

Click here for the text of the pronouncement (in Turkish) dated 05.11.2013 and numbered 13-61/851-359, the reasoned decision for which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.