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The Competition Board authorized the acquisition of 100% of the
shares of Fortis Emeklilik ve Hayat A.Ş. (Fortis Retirement and
Life Inc.) by BNP Paribas since it would not result in creating a
dominant position or strengthening an existing dominant position
and hence not in reducing competition significantly of a nature
mentioned in article 7 of Act No. 4054 and in Communiqué No.
1997/1 (30.09.2010, 10-62/1279-483).
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The Competition Board, as a result of an examination made upon
the request for the granting of a negative clearance/exemption to
the Insurance Information Center in order to deliver the platform
Motaport, secondhand vehicle buying, and selling agency service,
decided to give a Negative Clearance Certificate under article 8 of
the Act on the Protection of Competition No. 4054 to the internet
site named
www.motaport.comset up by the Insurance Information
Center and to the service offered at this internet site. This service
is used to investigate the damage and loss of value histories of
passenger vehicles by those buying and selling these vehicles.
Although the database used in offering this service is not sold
or made available to competing undertakings or to undertakings
offering services of a similar nature, an exemption was granted for
three years within the scope of article 5 of the Act on the Protection
of Competition No. 4054 on the ground that they were deemed
unlikely to infringe articles 4, 6 and 7 of the same Act. (30.09.2010,
10-62/1277-481)
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The Competition Board decided unanimously that an investigation
was not required to be opened in accordance with article 41 of Act
No. 4054 with regard to the claims that TTNet A.Ş. (TTNet Inc.)
tied the internet service provision service with the Web TV service
named Tivibu thus abusing its dominant position and that the
service cost included in Tivibu advertisements did not reflect reality.
Therefore, it rejected the complaint (30.09.2010, 10-62/1287-488)
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The Competition Board, as a result of the examination made upon
the claim that Nuh Cement, by exercising its power deriving from
its dominant position in İstanbul Anatolian bank (including Izmit),
conducted a price squeeze in the ready concrete market, infringing
Act No. 4054, decided that opening an investigation was not required
in accordance with Act No. 4054. (07.10.2010; 10-63/1317-494)