The Turkish Competition Board's "Fertiliser" Decision

July 2021 - In 2018 the Turkish Competition Board (the "Board") issued a decision (11 October 2018, numbered 18-38/619-M) that launched an ex officio preliminary investigation to examine price increases in the fertiliser sector, to determine whether the undertakings operating in the sector were in violation of Article 4 of Law No. 4054 (the "Law"). Within the scope of this preliminary investigation, dawn raids were conducted at six undertakings and at one union of undertakings, and during these on-site investigations, various types of information and documents were requested from the relevant undertakings. As a result of the preliminary report, an official investigation was initiated against six undertakings-BAGFAS, GEMLIK, GÜBRETAS, IGSAS, TOROS and EGE-while GÜID was excluded from the investigation.