THE COMPETITION AUTHORITY PUBLISHES THE YEAR REPORT 2019

10 March 2020

The Turkish Competition Authority (“TCA”) published “the Annual Activity Report” for 2019 on its website, on the date of 06.03.2020.

In the Report, it is stated that total number of decisions in 2019 was 312; the 208 of these decisions were about the merger and acquisitions, 35 of them were in the matter of the exemptions and negative declaratory and 69 of the decisions were in relation to the competition breaches. Also, in the Report, it is expressed that the 29 investigations have launched in 2019 and the 15 of them has completed. The total amount of the administrative fines imposed on the 10 of the completed 15 investigations were 237.674.114,94 TL. Another matter mentioned in the report is also that the decisions taken between 2017 and 2018 contribute 3.28 billion TL to the consumer benefits.

According to the Report, in the sectoral allocation of the decisions taken for competition breaches, the sector of Agriculture, Forestry, Food and Livestock is top of the list with 12 decisions followed by the sector of Transportation, Vehicles and Service with 10 decisions. By the end of 2019, total number of investigations ongoing is 44 whose 15 is in respect to 2018. 

In the allocation of sector based on the administrative fine for competition breach herein, the sector of Agriculture, Forestry, Food and Livestock is also in the first place as imposed fine around 157,7 million TL. In the sector of Information and Communication technology, the TCA imposed fine of 61,5 million TL while this amount was 10,5 million TL in the sector of Transportation, Vehicle and Service.

Additionally, the sectors which have been imposed remarkable administrative fines between 2015 and 2019 are included in the Report. Accordingly, the TCA issued administrative fine of around 253,6 million TL on the sector of Information and Communication Technology. Beside this, fine of 226,4 million TL were imposed on the sector of Energy, of 156,7 million TL on the sector of Food and of 155,8 million TL on the sector of Tobacco and Alcohol beverages.

You can find the full text of the Annual Report (in Turkish) here.

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