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| Investigation concerning Allergan İlaçları Tic. A.Ş. Initiated (22.11.2021) | 1.12.2021 | ||
| Upon the decision of Ankara 10th Administration Court, the Competition Board reevaluated the allegation that Allergan İlaçları Tic. A.Ş. abused its dominant position by not supplying the “Botox” branded drug to the National Pharmaceuticals Medical Devices Warehouse. Previously, the decision no 13-01/3-3 that it was not necessary to initiate an investigation regarding the allegations that were the subject of the file pursuant to the Article 41 of the Act no 4054 was taken on 03.01.2013 as a res... | |||
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| The Board Decision concerning the Investigation about Novartis Sağlık Gıda ve Tarım Ürünleri San. ve Tic. A.Ş. (Novartis) and Roche Müstahzarları San. A.Ş. (Roche) (21.01.2021) | 25.11.2021 | ||
| As a result of the discussion of the contents of the file on 21.01.2021, the Competition Board decided that Novartis and Roche violated Article 4 of Act No. 4054 on the Protection of Competition by engaging in concerted practices in order to popularize the use of the drug Lucentis, which is the more expensive of the two drugs used in various eye diseases, in particular in the treatment of the age-related macular degeneration (AMD), namely Altuzan (Avastin), owned by Roche, and the Novartis-owned... | |||
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| The Balkan Initiative Platform, which reflects the common will of nine Balkan countries for cooperation, is formed with the initiative of the Turkish Competition Authority (10.11.2021) | 11.11.2021 | ||
| The Balkan Initiative Platform, which reflects the common will of nine Balkan countries for cooperation, is formed with the initiative of the Turkish Competition Authority. The first workshop of the platform on “Recent Trends in Competition Law Enforcement in the Balkans” was held on November 9, 2021 with high level participation from Greece, Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Republic of North Macedonia and Montenegro. The workshop started with the opening speech of the President of Tur... | |||
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| Investigation about Mey İçki San. ve Tic. A.Ş. Initiated (5.11.2021) | 8.11.2021 | ||
| The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry conducted upon the claim that Mey İçki San. ve Tic. A.Ş. violated article 6 of the Act no 4054. After discussing the information and documents acquired and observations made during the preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 21.10.2021, the Competition Board concluded that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision no 21-51/708-M to initiate an investigation about Mey İçki San. ve Tic. A.Ş. in order to determine w... | |||
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| Investigation concerning EssilorLuxottica S.A. Initiated (5.11.2021) | 8.11.2021 | ||
| The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry conducted upon the claim that EssilorLuxottica S.A.’s practices complicating the activities of its competitors and excluding them in the optics sector violated article 4 and 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition. After discussing the information and documents acquired and observations made during the preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 21.10.2021, the Competition Board concluded that the findings were significant and ... | |||
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| The First Competition Board Decision to Terminate the Preliminary Inquiry Process with Commitments (1.11.2021) | 8.11.2021 | ||
| While the preliminary inquiry of the Competition Board conducted pursuant to article 40 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of the Competition concerning Türkiye Şişe ve Cam Fabrikaları AŞ and its subsidiary Şişecam Çevre Sistemleri AŞ was ongoing, the undertakings made an application to initiate the commitment process regarding the competitive concerns in the file. As a result of the commitment negotiations made upon the application, the said parties submitted a comprehensive commitment packag... | |||
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| The investigation conducted about supermarket chains dealing with retail trade of food and cleaning products, their suppliers at producer and wholesaler level and an association was concluded. | 2.11.2021 | ||
| The investigation conducted about the pricing behavior of supermarket chains dealing with retail trade of food and cleaning products and of their suppliers at producer and wholesaler level during COVID-19 outbreak was concluded. As a result of the discussion of the file on 28.10.2021 by the Competition Board, it was decided that 1) 1. BİM Birleşik Mağazalar A.Ş., 2. CarrefourSA Carrefour Sabancı Ticaret Merkezi A.Ş., 3. Migros Ticaret A.Ş., 4. Savola Gıda San. ve... | |||
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| The Board Decision concerning the Investigation about the economic entity consisted of Google Reklamcılık ve Pazarlama Ltd. Şti., Google International LLC, Google LLC, Google Ireland Limited ve Alphabet Inc. (Google) | 1.11.2021 | ||
| As a result of the discussion of the contents of the file on 12.11.2020, the Competition Board decided that Google violated articles 6 of the Act no 4054 on the Protection of Competition by means of the positioning text ads at the top of general search results at high densities and in a way that their advertisement nature is unclear and thus complicating the activities of organic results, which does not generate income, in content services market; thus the said undertaking shall be imposed admin... | |||
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| Investigation initiated about Sahibinden Bilgi Teknolojileri Paz. ve Tic. A.Ş. (19.10.2021) | 22.10.2021 | ||
| Having discussed the information and documents acquired and observations made in an ongoing preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 30.09.2021, the Competition Board concluded that the findings were significant and sufficient and decided ex officio (with the decision no 21-44/655-M) that an investigation would be initiated about Sahibinden Bilgi Teknolojileri Pazarlama ve Ticaret AŞ to determine whether article 6 of the Act no 4054 was violated by means of preventing data transport and other ways ... | |||
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| Investigation concerning DSM Grup Danışmanlık İletişim ve Satış Ticaret AŞ and other undertakings within the same economic unity initiated (11.10.2021) | 12.10.2021 | ||
| The Competition Board concluded the preliminary inquiry conducted upon the claim that DSM Grup Danışmanlık İletişim ve Satış Ticaret AŞ (Trendyol) violated the Act no 4054 by means of its practices in the market for online marketplace. After discussing the information and documents acquired and observations made in the preliminary inquiry in its meeting of 23.09.2021, the Competition Board concluded that the findings were significant and sufficient, and took the decision no 21-44/650-M to in... | |||
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