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| The Hearing for the Investigation Conducted on Tetra Laval Holding & Finance SA and Tetra Pak Paketleme Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şti. Will be Held on July 23, 2024. | 24.6.2024 | ||
| The investigation concerning Tetra Laval Holding & Finance SA and Tetra Pak Paketleme Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi, which are operating in manufacturing and selling aseptic liquid food filling machines and aseptic liquid food packages has reached the hearing stage. On 30.03.2023 Tetra Pak Paketleme Sanayi ve Ticaret Limited Şirketi was added as a party to the investigation, which was initiated according to the Competition Board decision dated 29.12.2022 in order to determine whether Tetr... | |||
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| The Hearing of the Investigation Conducted Against Hamzaoğlu Kimya Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ Will Be Held on July 23, 2024. | 14.6.2024 | ||
| The investigation launched with the Competition Board decision dated 13.04.2023 and numbered 23-18/343-M(8) on Haks Hamzaoğlu Kimya San. ve Tic. AŞ (Haks Kimya), which produces and sells food supplements, baby formula, cosmetics and medical products under various brands such Nurse Harvey’s and Gifrer, was completed with the submission of Haks Kimya’s third written plea on 31.05.2024, and thus reached the hearing stage. The hearing will be held at the Competition Authority Headquarters on July 23... | |||
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| Investigation Launched on İtameks and Özelcan, Active in the Distribution and Sale of Baby Products. | 13.6.2024 | ||
| With its decision dated 21.05.2024 and numbered 24-23/520-M, the Competition Board launched an investigation on İtameks Dış Ticaret ve Pazarlama Anonim Şirketi (İTAMEKS) and Özelcan Babymall Mağazacılık Dağıtım Sanayi ve Ticaret Anonim Şirketi (ÖZELCAN), on the suspicion that they violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition (Act no 4054) through anti-competitive practices aimed at their dealers. İTAMEKS is active in Türkiye as the sole distributor of 4MOMS brand bab... | |||
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| Hearing for the Investigation concerning Some Ready Mixed Concrete Manufacturers operating in Ankara and Kırıkkale Provinces to be held on July 16, 2024 | 12.6.2024 | ||
| With the Competition Board decision numbered 22-54/828-M, an investigation was opened on 08.12.2022 about the claim that certain ready mixed concrete manufacturers that operate in Ankara and Kırıkkale provinces violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition. The claims that certain ready-mixed concrete manufacturers operating in Ankara and Kırıkkale provinces violated article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by means of fixing the sale price of ready ... | |||
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| Hearing for the Investigation concerning Some Ready Mixed Concrete Manufacturers operating in Adana and Osmaniye Provinces to be held on July 17, 2024 | 12.6.2024 | ||
| With the decision of the Competition Board dated 26.01.2023 and numbered 23-06/72-M, an investigation was opened about Çimsa Çimento Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (ÇİMSA), KÇS Kahramanmaraş Çimento Beton Sanayi ve Madencilik İşletmeleri AŞ (KÇS), MM Tiftik Kardeşler Nakliye İnşaat Emlak Petrol ve Tarım Ürünleri Paz. San. Tic. Ltd. Şti. (TİFTİK), Oyak Çimento Fabrikaları AŞ (OYAK) and Samet Hazır Beton İnşaat Madencilik Lojistik Enerji Ltd. Şti. (TOROS), which are ready mixed concrete manufacturers operat... | |||
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| Announcement of the Date of the Hearing about the Tractor File | 11.6.2024 | ||
| The investigation concerning 10 undertakings operating in manufacturing and marketing tractors has reached the hearing stage. With the decision of the Competition Board dated 05.01.2023, an investigation was opened about AGCO Tarım Makineleri Ticaret Ltd. Şti., Argo Tractors Turkey Traktör San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti., Başak Satış Pazarlama ve Yatırım AŞ, Erkunt Traktör Sanayii AŞ, Hattat Traktör Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, IPSO Tarım AŞ, Kubota Turkey Makine Ticaret Ltd. Şti., Same Deutz Fahr Traktör S... | |||
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| The periodic fine imposed on Google in the Local Search Services Investigation has been terminated. Google has been imposed a total of 482 million TL in fines for the period in which it failed to implement the proposed measures with respect to hotel inquiries. | 10.6.2024 | ||
| In the Competition Board dated 08.04.2021 and numbered 21-20/248-105, it was found that GOOGLE held dominant position in the general search services market, and that GOOGLE violated Article 6 of the Act no 4054 since it obstructed the operations of its rivals by favoring its own local search (Local Unit) and accommodation price comparison (GOOGLE Hotel Ads-GHA) services in the general search results page in terms of positioning and display and preventing competing local search websites from ente... | |||
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| INVESTIGATION ON APPLE | 6.6.2024 | ||
| The Competition Authority is currently conducting the Mobile Ecosystems Sector Inquiry concerning smart mobile devices and their software, with an aim to understand the structure and operation of the relevant sector and to determine the structural and/or behavioral competition issues in the sector. The agreements Apple signed with app developers and its App Review Guidelines were examined within the framework of the Sector Inquiry in question, which raised certain questions on whether Apple impo... | |||
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| The investigation, which was conducted about CHI Kozmetik İthalat İhracat Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ (CHI Kozmetik) upon the claim that it violated article 4 of Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition (the Act no 4054) by means of resale price maintenance, has been concluded. | 5.6.2024 | ||
| The findings obtained under the scope of the investigation show that CHI Kozmetik closely monitors the prices of especially the resellers which make sales through e-commerce channel. CHI Kozmetik clearly intervenes with the resellers who sell products at prices lower than the determined list prices. In case resellers which sell products through e-commerce platforms do not comply with the list prices, sanction mechanisms such as closing an outlet or withdrawing outlet authorization ar... | |||
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| The interview by Concurrences with the President of the Turkish Competition Authority Birol KÜLE has been published in the second issue of the Concurrences Review, which is the journal of the online publisher. | 23.5.2024 | ||
| In the interview published in Concurrences, the President of the Turkish Competition Authority Birol KÜLE stated that during his first four-year term, the TCA has taken important steps in terms of promoting fair market practices and enhancing consumer welfare in Türkiye, closely followed the dynamics brought by digital transformation in order to adapt to the global economic landscape, which has been changing with digital transformation, and finalized the reports on the proposed amendments to the... | |||
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