Quarterly Competition Law Bulletin – 2022 Second Quarter

One of the most significant developments in this period was the long-awaited Final Report on E-Commerce Platforms Sector Inquiry's (the "Final Report") publication by the Turkish Competition Authority (the "TCA") on 14 April 2022.

The Final Report reiterated the TCA's main competition concerns in its Preliminary Sector Inquiry Report on E-Commerce Platforms and revised the policy recommendations for these concerns. The TCA's policy recommendations signal the amendment of the secondary legislation targeting largest e-commerce platforms. Meanwhile, the Law on the Amendment of the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce, which the Ministry of Commerce has been working on for a long time was finally published on 7 July 2022. It includes certain provisions bringing solutions to the problems identified by the TCA.¹