Introduction
Several changes have been introduced to Law No. 4054 on the
Protection of Competition ("Law No. 4054") with Law
Amending the Law on the Protection of Competition numbered 7246
("Law No. 7246") which was published in the Official
Gazette dated 24.06.2020 and numbered 31165.
One of these changes, regarding on-site inspections, set legal
footing for the broad range of powers the Authority experts
exercise during on-site inspections. As mentioned in previous
newsletters, prior to the amendment, it could have been argued that
the procedures adopted during on-site inspections were not entirely
the same with the procedure set out in the legislation and to an
extent were modelled during the on-site inspection depending on the
attitudes of employees' and the extent of use of technological
and cloud systems within the inspected undertaking. Pursuant to
Article 15 of Law No. 4054, the Board was entitled "To
examine the books, any paperwork and documents of
