The investigation conducted in accordance with the Competition Board decision dated 21.11.2024 and numbered 24-49/1091-M, concerning the allegation that undertakings operating in the field of tire production and distribution in the automotive sector violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition has been concluded. The investigation examined the allegations of concerted practice regarding price movements and exchange of competitively sensitive information among competitors, resale price maintenance for dealers, region and customer restrictions on dealers, discriminatory practices, non-compete obligations, anti-competitive exchange of information in the labor markets and no-poaching agreements.

As the investigation process was ongoing, Özcan Otom. Lastik. San. Tic. AŞ (Petlas), Üstündağ Lastik İthalat ve Ticaret AŞ, Tatko Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, Prolas Otom. Nak. Hırdavat San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti, Özcanlar Lastik San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti, Kardeşler Ulaşım Jant Mot. Araçlar ve Servis Hizmetleri Ticaret Ltd. Şti and Abdullah Özdoğan Ticaret Otomotiv Petrol İnşaat Makina Sanayi İthalat ve İhracat Ltd. Şti. submitted settlement applications. As a result of the settlement procedures conducted for the relevant undertakings, it was decided,

1. With the Board Decision dated 20.11.2025 and numbered 25-43/1070-610, that administrative fines of 396,868,582.22 TL in total should be imposed on Abdulkadir Özcan Otom. Lastik. San. Tic. AŞ for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements, fixing resale prices of its dealers and imposing region/customer restrictions, and exchanging information in the labor market;
2. With the Board Decision dated 11.11.2025 and numbered 25-41/1033-589, that administrative fines of 8,263,636.19 TL in total should be imposed on Üstündağ Lastik İthalat ve Ticaret AŞ for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by fixing resale prices of its dealers;
3. With the Board Decision dated 20.11.2025 and numbered 25-43/1046-598, that administrative fines of 67,720,838.07 TL in total should be imposed on Tatko Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by exchanging information in the output market and exchanging information in the labor market;
4. That the following administrative fines should be imposed on the undertakings concerned for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information, 
   • 4,115,082.35 TL on Prolas Otom. Nak. Hırdavat San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti, with the Board Decision dated 20.11.2025 and numbered 2543/1049-601,
   • 7.499.380,35 TL on Özcanlar Lastik San. ve Tic. Ltd. Şti, with the Board Decision dated 20.11.2025 and numbered 2543/1048-600,
   • 8,073,447.76 TL on Kardeşler Ulaşım Jant Mot. Araçlar ve Servis Hizmetleri Ticaret Ltd. Şti, with the Board Decision dated 11.11.2025 and numbered 2541/1032-588,
   • 4,551,019.19 TL on Abdullah Özdoğan Ticaret Otomotiv Petrol İnşaat Makina Sanayi İthalat ve İhracat Ltd. Şti, with the Board Decision dated 20.11.2025 and numbered 2543/1047-599,

amounting to a total of 24,238,929.65 TL in administrative fines, and

That the investigation should be concluded through the settlement process for the abovementioned undertakings.

As a result of the investigation, the Board took the decision dated 04.06.2026 and numbered 26-20/612-242, imposing an administrative fine of 

1. 1,019,069,577.64 TL in total on Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements, imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers, engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information and/or making no-poach agreements in the labor market;
2. 397,294,083.93 TL in total on Otomotiv Lastikleri Tevzi AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements and imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers;
3. 672,292,698.43 TL in total on Goodyear Lastikleri Türk AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements, imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers, and engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information and/or making no-poach agreements in the labor market;
4. 361,481,610.39 TL in total on Hankook Lastikleri AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements, fixing resale prices of and imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers, and engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information and/or making no-poach agreements in the labor market;
5. 185,113,328.77 TL on Michelin Lastikleri Ticaret AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements;
6. 292,432,145.05 in total on Pirelli Otomobil Lastikleri AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements, fixing resale prices of and imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers, and engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information and/or making no-poach agreements in the labor market;
7. 206,763,817.24 TL in total on Prometeon Turkey Endüstriyel ve Ticari Lastikler AŞ, for violating Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by fixing resale prices of and imposing region/customer restrictions on its dealers, and engaging in anti-competitive exchange of information and/or making no-poach agreements in the labor market;
8. In addition, the decision also found that Aydın Lastik Sat. ve Ser. Hiz. Ltd. Şti, Modül Lastik Otomotiv Ticaret AŞ, Cengizler Oto Lastik Pazarlama İnşaat Turizm Nakliyat Tekstil Emlak İthalat ve İhracat Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. Şti and  Gürlas Oto Lastik San. Tic. Ltd. Şti violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by exchanging competition restricting information and therefore administrative fines of
   • 1,191,732.23 TL should be imposed on Aydın Lastik Sat. ve Ser. Hiz. Ltd. Şti,
   • 1,204,191.51 TL should be imposed on Modül Lastik Otomotiv Ticaret AŞ,

amounting to a total of 2,395,923.74 TL in administrative fines.

• • It was also decided that the infringement identified with respect to Cengizler Oto Lastik Pazarlama İnşaat Turizm Nakliyat Tekstil Emlak İthalat ve İhracat Sanayi Ticaret Ltd. Şti and Gürlas Oto Lastik San. Tic. Ltd. Şti was timebarred pursuant to Article 20 of the Misdemeanors Law no 5326, and thus there were no grounds for imposing administrative fines on the undertakings concerned.

Accordingly, administrative fines totaling 3,633,935,171.32 TL were imposed on the undertakings for the infringements identified within the scope of the investigation, consisting of 497,091,986.13 TL imposed as a result of the settlement process and 3,136,843,185.19 TL imposed as a result of the investigation.

9. At the same time, it was decided that
   • no administrative fines should be imposed on Prometeon Turkey Endüstriyel ve Ticari Lastikler AŞ, as it could not be established that it violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 by engaging in concerted practices regarding price movements;
   • no administrative fines should be imposed on Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ and Hankook Lastikleri AŞ with respect to the allegation that they violated Article 4 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by engaging in discriminatory practices against their dealers, since no findings could be obtained in support of this allegation;
   • the noncompete obligation imposed by Brisa Bridgestone Sabancı Lastik Sanayi ve Ticaret AŞ on its dealers in the forklift tire market benefited from the block exemption under the Block Exemption Communiqué no 2017/3 on Vertical Agreements in the Motor Vehicles Sector.
10. Lastly, under Article 9.1 of the Act no 4054, in order to prevent the indirect exchange of information through the dealers, which was found to have affected the execution of the concerted practice regarding the price movements, to prevent the recurrence of the infringement concerned, and to establish competition in the relevant market, it was decided that the following obligations should be placed on the producer/supplier undertakings active in the tire retreading market in Türkiye:

• All announcements to the dealers regarding price lists and elements affecting the price (increases, discounts, premiums, support, terms of sale, financial terms, incentives system, etc.) must incorporate a code in the form of a distinctive and visible watermark appearing multiple times across the page;
• The method of collectively communicating the announcements with the characteristics set out in the previous article to multiple or all dealers must be terminated; instead, the announcements concerned must be carried out oneto-one through the interface/portal used to conduct the transactions between the producer/supplier and its dealers that is accessible by each dealer with its own user name and password; no verbal or written method other than the relevant interface/portal must be used and where such an interface/portal does not currently exist, it must be created and made accessible to the dealers;
• In order to contractually prevent dealers from sharing information/announcements concerning prices and/or priceforming elements set for a future date and/or having a future effective date with competing producers and/or their dealers, current and future agreements signed between the producer/supplier undertakings investigated and their dealers must include penalty clauses (which must be sufficient to prevent the dealer from exchanging information) barring dealers from sharing information/announcements concerning prices and/or price-forming elements set for a future date and/or having a future effective date with competing producers and/or their dealers, as well as provisions for the termination of the agreement with just cause;

with the implementation/execution of the relevant obligations to be documented within 3 months following the notification of the reasoned decision.

Respectfully announced to the public.