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| Daily Fines Imposed on Google for Failing to Comply with Obligations | 16.5.2024 | ||
| The Competition Board decision dated 08.04.2021 and numbered 21-20/248-105 ruled that GOOGLE held dominant position in the general search services market, and that GOOGLE violated Article 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by obstructing the activities of its rivals by means of favoring its own local search (Local Unit) and accommodation price comparison (GOOGLE Hotel Ads-GHA) services against those of the competitors in terms of positioning and display on the general search r... | |||
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| Investigation about Viking Kağıt ve Selüloz Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ Opened | 15.5.2024 | ||
| The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry concerning Viking Kağıt, which is operating in the production and sale of toilet paper, paper towel, wet towel, wet wipe, cologne, facial tissue and pocket tissue in the cleaning products market. The preliminary inquiry was made about the claims that Viking Kağıt set the resale prices of its buyers and thus violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the Act no 4054). After discussing the information and docum... | |||
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| Bağdat Baharat and Deva Baharat Fined nearly 2.8 million TL in the investigation, which was concluded with settlement | 14.5.2024 | ||
| The investigation, which was conducted according to the Competition Board decision dated 04.01.2024 and no 24-01/5-M to determine whether Bağdat Pazarlama Ticaret Limited Şirketi and Deva Baharatları Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by resale price maintenance has been concluded. Since Bağdat Pazarlama Ticaret Limited Şirketi and Deva Baharatları Gıda Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi operates within the same econom... | |||
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| Frito Lay Under Investigation. Is Frito Lay Excluding Rivals? | 13.5.2024 | ||
| An investigation has been launched on Frito Lay Gıda San. ve Tic. AŞ to determine if the undertaking violated the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by obstructing the activities of its competitors in the packaged chips sector, preventing the sales of its competitors and excluding its rivals from the market. Frito Lay is active in Türkiye with the Lays, Ruffles, Doritos, Cheetos and Çerezza brands in the packaged chips sector, and with the Rocco brand in the confectionary market. Fr... | |||
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| Investigation Launched on Novozymes A/S and Its Subsidiaries Novozymes Berlin GmbH, Novozymes France S.A.S, Novozymes North America, and Novozymes Enzim Dış Ticaret Ltd. Şti. | 10.5.2024 | ||
| With the Competition Board decision dated 08.02.2024 and numbered 24-07/121-M, it was decided that a preliminary inquiry should be conducted into the allegation that Novozymes Enzim Dış Ticaret Ltd. Şti. (NOVO TÜRKİYE) violated the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition in the industrial enzymes market through practices aimed at obstructing the activities of its competitors as well as through exclusionary practices. Within the framework of the information and documents acquired and the exa... | |||
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| Investigation about İstanbul Saint-Joseph Private French High School, İstanbul Saint Benoît Private French High School, İstanbul Notre-Dame de Sion Private French High School, İstanbul Saint-Michel Private French High School and İstanbul Sainte Pulchérie Private French High School Concluded. | 9.5.2024 | ||
| The Competition Board opened an investigation on 10.11.2022 about the claims that Saint-Joseph Private French High School, Saint Benoît Private French High School, Notre-Dame de Sion Private French High School, Saint-Michel Private French High School and Sainte Pulchérie Private French High School, which are private secondary education institutions operating in İstanbul, fixed school registration fees and the elements that constitute the fee as well as the salaries of Turkish schoolteachers in o... | |||
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| The solution proposals submitted by META for the obligations imposed by the Board decision dated 20.10.2022 were accepted. The amount of periodic fines was finalized as nearly 552 million. | 8.5.2024 | ||
| With the Competition Board decision dated 20.10.2022 and numbered 22-48-706-299, it was decided that META complicated the activities of its competitors operating in personal social networking services and online display advertising markets and created barriers to entry by means of combining the data collected from Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp services and META was imposed 346 million TL administrative fines. In addition, the Board imposed the obligations stating that META should submit whic... | |||
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| Interim Measure Final Decision Concerning META | 7.5.2024 | ||
| In the investigation about META Platforms, Inc. (META), which was initiated in response to the suspicion that META abused its dominant position by means of combining Threads and Instagram, the Competition Board took an interim measure decision in the meeting dated 08.02.2024 (Interim Measure Decision). In the said decision, it was concluded that META’s combination of the data of the users who created Threads profiles based on their Instagram accounts without giving users an option for consent... | |||
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| Symposium on Competition in the Labor Market | 30.4.2024 | ||
| Restriction of labor rights and prevention of competition in labor markets by means of non-compete clauses or no-poaching agreements have taken the attention of competition authorities throughout the world especially in the last few years. The design of competition policy for labor markets is a very sensitive issue as the existence of intensive state regulations and interventions concerning those markets have direct effects on the output markets. Therefore, the Symposium on Competition in the... | |||
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| Investigation about Duracell Satış ve Dağıtım Limited Şirketi Concluded | 30.4.2024 | ||
| The investigation conducted about the claim that Duracell Satış ve Dağıtım Limited Şirketi, which operates in the fast-moving consumer goods sector as a battery supplier, violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by means of resale price maintenance and restricting the regions and customers to which its buyers make sales has been concluded. It has been decided that the investigation, which was opened about Duracell Satış ve Dağıtım Limited Şirketi with the Co... | |||
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