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• The Final Decision on the Investigation Regarding Certain
Undertakings Operating in the Automotive Sector is announced
on 17.04.2012. As a result of the investigation, the Board has
decided, by majority of the votes, to impose administrative
fines, which amount to, by discretion, (i) 0,5% of the annual
gross revenue which generated at the end of the fiscal year 2009
as follows: TRY 109.418,33 to İriyıl Otomotiv İnşaat Turizm
Tic. ve San. Ltd. Şti., TRY 2.689,47 to Egeılısal Otomotiv
Pazarlama Ltd. Şti., TRY 18.791,83 to İrde Motorlu Araçlar
Servis Tic. A.Ş., TRY 124.648,96 to Yıldırım Otomotiv San. ve
Tic. Ltd. Şti.; (ii) 0,5% of the annual gross revenue which gen-
erated at the end of the fiscal year 2008 as TRY 63.810,48 to
Parlar Otomotiv ve Turizm Ltd. Şti. (12.04.2012, 12-20/557-
141)
• Announcement Related to Applications about Building
Inspection Services is published on the website of the
Competition Authority on 27.04.2012.
• As a result of the examination conducted in response to the
claim that the Act no 4054 and the Communiqué no 2002/2
were violated by OMV Petrol Ofisi A.Ş. through vertical agree-
ments and various practices, the Board decided that (a) The ver-
tical relationship between OMV Petrol Ofisi A.Ş. and Ömer
AKSU, which was found to have been established first by the
16-year usufruct rights granted to POAŞ on 08.06.2006, could
benefit from block exemption under the Communiqué no
2002/2 until 08.06.2011, and it was left out of the scope of the
aforementioned block exemption after this date, (b) An individ-
ual exemption could not be granted to the relevant agreement
under article 5 of the Act no 4054, (c) Therefore, under para-
graph 3, article 9 of the Act no 4054, the Presidency should be
charged with rendering opinion to the relevant undertakings,
stating that they should terminate the vertical agreement exist-
ing between the parties within sixty days following the notifi-
cation of the decision, and that otherwise proceeding would be
started under the Act no 4054. (03.05.2012, 12-24/669-191)
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