The Competition Authority announced that it has decided to launch an investigation against Google. The company is accused of abusing its dominant position in the market.
Competition Authority, Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc., Google LLC, Google International LLC, Google Ireland Limited and Google Advertising and Marketing Ltd. Sti. about decided to open an investigation.
The decision came with the completion of the preliminary investigation into the companies, which had been initiated “by abusing economic integrity’s dominant position in the general search services market”. Competition Board, the results obtained in the preliminary research finds the findings serious and sufficient explained.
Last year, he was fined for the same reason:
The Competition Authority has only given Google to Google in April of last year. 296 million TL had been punished. This punishment is Violation of Article 6 of the Law on the Protection of Competition given reason.
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Article 6 of the Law on the Protection of Competition, which Google allegedly violated:
Article 6- It is unlawful and prohibited for one or more undertakings to abuse their dominant position in a good or service market in the whole or in a part of the country, either alone or through agreements with others or jointly.
Situations of abuse are particularly:
a) Actions aimed at directly or indirectly preventing the entry of another undertaking into the field of commercial activity or making the activities of competitors in the market more difficult,
b) Discrimination directly or indirectly, by asserting different conditions for the same and equal rights, obligations and actions to buyers in equal status,
c) Re-purchase of a good or service together with a good or service, or if a good or service demanded by buyers in the case of intermediary undertakings is conditional on the display of another good or service by the buyer, or if a purchased good is not sold below a certain price. imposing restrictions on trading conditions in case of sale,
d) Actions aimed at disrupting the conditions of competition in another good or service market by taking advantage of the financial, technological and commercial advantages created by the dominance in a particular market,
e) Restriction of production, marketing or technical development to the detriment of the consumer.
Source :
https://www.rekabet.gov.tr/tr/Guncel/alphabet-inc-google-llc-google-internati-7a7a9cc62aa2ed118eae00505685da39