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Rekabet hukukunda tek taraflı sömürücü davranışlar

Yüksek pazar gücüne sahip teşebbüslerin pazardaki rekabet yapısı üzerinde etki doğurmaksızın doğrudan tüketicilere zarar veren sömürücü davranışlarının rekabet hukuku çerçevesinde ne şekilde ele alınacağı kavramsal ve uygulamaya dönük tartışmalara neden olmaktadır. Bu tartışmalar nedeniyle, uygulamacılar ve akademisyenler arasında sömürücü davranışlara rekabet hukuku çerçevesinde müdahalenin istisnai koşullarla sınırlı tutulması yönünde bir görüş birliği bulunmaktadır. Ancak, bu koşullara ve yapılacak müdahalenin biçimine ilişkin görüşler rekabet hukukunun ne derece müdahaleci olması gerektiğine yönelik anlayış çerçevesinde değişmektedir. Esas olarak, ‘yüksek pazar gücüne sahip teşebbüslerin sömürücü davranışlarına rekabet hukuku çerçevesinde müdahale edilmeli mi?’ ve ‘Eğer müdahale edilecekse, bu müdahalenin koşulları ve biçimi ne olmalı?’ sorularına yanıt arayan bu çalışmanın ilk bölümünde Amerika Birleşik Devletleri’nde ve Avrupa Birliği’nde sömürücü davranışların ne şekilde ele alındığı incelenmekte ve sömürücü davranışlara rekabet hukuku çerçevesinde müdahale edilmesine yönelik tartışmalara yer verilmektedir. İkinci bölümde Avrupa Birliği içtihadı ışığında sömürücü davranış türleri ve bunlara müdahalenin yaratabileceği sonuçlar açıklanmakta, müdahale koşullarına ve biçimine yönelik genel bir değerlendirme yapılmaktadır. Son bölümde ise, Rekabet Kurulu kararları çerçevesinde sömürücü davranışların yeri incelenmekte ve ikinci bölümde yapılan değerlendirmeler ışığında Türk Rekabet Hukuku uygulaması bakımından çeşitli öneriler ortaya konmaktadır.

Unilateral exploitative conduct in competition law

The question of how the exploitative conducts of the undertakings having high market power should be evaluated in the scope of competition law raises serious discussions. Due to divergence in those discussions, which have conceptual and practical aspects, there is a consensus of opinion among practitioners and academicians on intervention in the exploitative conducts being limited to exceptional circumstances within the area of competition law. However, the opinions on the circumstances and the method of the intervention are evolving in parallel to the shifting insights on interventionism of the competition law. In the first part of this study, which basically seeks for the answer to the questions ‘Shall the exploitative conducts of the undertakings having high market power be intervened within the scope of competition law?’ and ‘If the answer is affirmative, what should be the conditions and methods of intervention?’, it is assessed that how the exploitative conducts are handled in United States of America and European Union and the discussions on the intervention in the exploitative conducts in competition law are introduced. In the second part, the types of exploitative conduct and the possible results of intervention are explained in the light of European case law and a general assessment is made on the circumstances and methods of the intervention. In the last part, the concept and practice of exploitative conduct in the decisions of the Turkish Competition Board is analyzed and a number of suggestions for the Turkish competition law practice are made in the light of the assessments made in the second part.
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  • ISSN: 1302-552X
  • Yayın Aralığı: Yılda 5 Sayı
  • Başlangıç: 2000
  • Yayıncı: Rekabet Kurumu
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