ASSURING
COMPETITION
To protect
consumers, to ensure a well-functioning of market,
to meet economic needs of society and for the sake
of public benefits, the following actions are strictly
prohibited:
i.
Creating a control over market functioning,
ii. Creating barriers to the activities
of competitors
iii. Preventing new players from
entering into the market,
iv. Unequally treating the market
players with equivalent status for equal rights,
obligations and liabilities,
v. Obliging buyers to purchase
other goods and services in conjunction with certain
goods and services,
vi. Making compulsory the sale
of certain goods and services demanded by wholesalers
or intermediaries on display of other goods and
services
vii. Placing forth-conditions for
the resale of certain goods and services already
supplied,
viii. Mergers or takeovers through
certain agreements, applications and decisions in
a manner directly or indirectly, seriously preventing,
disrupting or restricting competition and causing
creation of monopolies
The
Turkish Competition Authority is asked for its view
on the privatisation transactions to ensure that any
violation of competition will not occur after the privatisation.
Moreover, if the organization to be privatised operates
in one of the following market categories, then PA collaborates
with the corresponding regulatory and supervisory authority
to ensure the well-functioning of the marker after the
privatisation:
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