The investigation conducted in order to determine whether Ankara Uluslararası Kongre ve Fuar İşletmeciliği Merkezi A.Ş., which is the operator of Congresium ATO International Congress and Expo Center, violated article 6 of the Act no 4054 by abusing its dominant position through refusing A ve A Fuarcılık Organizasyon ve Tic. Ltd. Şti.’s application to organize a furniture expo in 2014 and through implementing excessive prices together with its affiliate GL Events Fuarcılık A.Ş. has been concluded.

The investigation was initiated following the 3rd Administrative Court of Ankara’s decision dated 02.02.2015 and numbered 2014/334 E., 2015/155 K., annulling the previous Competition Board decision on the subject, dated 06.11.2013 and numbered 13-62/861-368, which refused the complaint and did not launch an investigation.

The investigation, initiated with the Competition Board decision dated 15.06.2015 and numbered 15-26/293-M, took the issues raised in the aforementioned court decision into consideration and examined whether article 6 of the Act no 4054 was violated by Ankara Uluslararası Kongre ve Fuar İşletmeciliği Merkezi A.Ş. and GL Events Fuarcılık A.Ş.

Following the discussion of the file by the Competition Board on 27.10.2016, it was decided that Ankara Uluslararası Kongre ve Fuar İşletmeciliği Merkezi A.Ş. violated article 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition and therefore the undertaking in question should be imposed administrative fines under article 16 of the same Act.

Click here for the text of the pronouncement (in Turkish) for the decision dated 27.10.2016 and numbered 16-35/604-269, the reasoned version of which will be notified later and which can be appealed before Ankara Administrative Courts.