Vertical Agreements 2024

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The main pieces of legislation regulating vertical restraints are:

  • Turkey Code No. 4054/1994 on the Protection of Competition (the Competition Law);

  • the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements; and

  • the Guidelines on Vertical Agreements (the Vertical Guidelines).

Other applicable legal sources include:

  • the Communiqué on Agreements, Concerted Practices and Decisions and Practices of Associations of Undertakings that Do Not Significantly Restrict Competition (the De Minimis Communiqué);

  • the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements in the Motor Vehicles Sector (the Motor Vehicles Communiqué);

  • the Guidelines Explaining the Block Exemption Communiqué on Vertical Agreements in the Motor Vehicles Sector (the Motor Vehicles Guidelines);

  • the Guidelines on Certain Subcontracting Agreements between Non-competitors; and

  • the Guidelines on the General Principles of Exemption.

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