The investigation launched with the Competition Board Decision dated 06.11.2025 and numbered 25-41/991-M on the economic unity composed of Kyocera Bilgitaş Turkey Doküman Çözümleri AŞ and Kyocera Document Solutions Europe Management B.V. (KYOCERA) and on Geskopikit Dijital Kopyalama AŞ (GESKOPİKİT) to determine if they violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by preventing parallel imports, placing restrictions on the customers and territories to which resellers may sell without distinguishing between active and passive sales, and fixing resale prices has been concluded.

With respect to KYOCERA’s settlement application concerning its practices amounting to fixing the sale prices of resellers, it has been decided that

• KYOCERA violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by fixing the sale prices of resellers,
• A 25% discount should be applied to the administrative fines to be imposed on the undertaking as a result of the settlement procedure,
• An administrative fine in the final amount of 14,486,950.34 TL as calculated over its gross revenues in 2024 should be imposed on KYOCERA,

with the Board Decision dated 30.04.2026 and numbered 26-16/490-179.

KYOCERA also submitted commitments guaranteeing that it would not impose restrictions on the regions/resellers or customers to which its dealers could makes sales, that it would not prevent parallel imports, and that it would remove the competition issues identified within the framework of the non-compete obligations and exclusive purchase obligation included in its agreements.

In this context, it was decided that

• The final commitments submitted by KYOCERA should be accepted and made binding for the relevant undertaking, since they were capable of eliminating the competitive issues identified under the file,
• The changes to be made in accordance with the commitments in question should be documented before the Competition Board within 4 (four) months following the notification of the Board’s short decision,

with the Board decision dated 09.04.2026 and numbered 26-13/369-145.

Within the framework of the same file, with respect to the settlement application concerning GESKOPİKİT’s conduct amounting to the fixing the sale prices of its resellers, the Board decided that:

• GESKOPİKİT infringed Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by fixing the sale prices of its resellers
• A 25% discount should be applied to the administrative fines to be imposed on the undertaking as a result of the settlement procedure,  
• An administrative fine in the final amount of 3,946,922.10 TL as calculated over its gross revenues in 2024 should be imposed on GESKOPİKİT,

with its decision dated 12.03.2026 and numbered 26-09/267-95

GESKOPİKİT submitted commitments stating that it would not impose restrictions on the regions/resellers and customers to which its sub-dealers may offer products, and that it would not prevent parallel imports.

In this context, the Board decided that

• The final commitments submitted by GESKOPİKİT should be accepted and made binding for the relevant undertaking, since they were capable of eliminating the competition issues identified under the file,
• The changes to be made in accordance with the commitments in question should be documented before the Competition Board within 3 (three) months following the notification of the Board’s short decision,

with its decision dated 12.02.2026 and numbered 26-05/129-46.