Vertical Agreements And Group Exemptions In Turkish Competition Law

The concept of competition is defined in doctrine as the relationship between enterprises that sell the same type of goods or services to a consumer group at the same time. In accordance with this definition, competition law could be possibly defined as a branch of law that includes regulatory, supervisory, and prohibitive norms to prevent competition violations in order to ensure economic efficiency, to create and maintain the free competition order in the goods and service markets, and to resolve competition violations.

Competition Law in Turkish legislation is regulated by the Law on the Protection of Competition No. 4054 ("Law No. 4054"), which bears the traces of the European Union Competition Law, and the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements No. 2002/2 ("Communiqué") regarding vertical agreements. In addition, the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements and Concerted Actions in the Motor Vehicles Sector No. 2005/4 specifically