A Total of 42 Million TL Penalty for Deceptive Advertisements

The Board of Advertisement shared the cumulative results of the decisions signed last year as part of the 15 March World Consumer Day. The Board announced that during 2022, it received administrative fines for 405 files due to misleading and deceptive advertisements.

The total value of the administrative fine for these 405 files, 42 million 329 thousand 745 TL declared as. It was also shared that a total of 1303 files were suspended. During the year 2022, 21 thousand 199 files were decided.

The sectors that were penalized the most for their advertisements were also announced:

The Board also shared the sectors most penalized for deceptive and misleading advertisements. Health sectortook the first place with 13 million 317 thousand 268 TL. In the second place with 10 million 463 thousand 26 TL food industry Other sectors followed the list with 8 million 613 thousand 279 TL.

Work continues against companies that present themselves as authorized services:

In addition to advertisements, the board also plans to prevent companies that present themselves as “authorized services” and provide services, although they are not authorized. Activities related to this continue through the “Service Information System” prepared for citizens.

The system includes all 44,447 authorized service stations of 2,7667 companies throughout the year 2022. You can click this link to access the system.