Competition Board Started Investigation on E-commerce Sites
The Competition Board finds that e-commerce sites engage in exclusionary and/or exploitative practices through pricing, platform services and supply behavior.
The Competition Board finds that e-commerce sites engage in exclusionary and/or exploitative practices through pricing, platform services and supply behavior.
Competition Board, with its decision dated 11.06.2020, numbered 20-28/353-M, on the grounds that e-commerce sites engage in exclusionary and/or exploitative practices through pricing, platform services and supply behavior. industry review announced that he decided to start. The Competition Board prepared an announcement to inform the public. e-marketplaces differing from the traditional market due to the economic functioning and effects of the platforms they use, business models He pointed out that they are the leading market actors that hinder the competitive order of the new economy due to their labor markets.
The full statement made by the Competition Board is as follows:
“From a competition law perspective, market forces related to data ownership and network effects also fuel abuse concerns, with the effect of their simultaneous roles as both platform owners and sellers in the market. In this context, the fact that e-marketplaces may engage in exclusionary and/or exploitative practices through pricing, platform services and supply behavior is increasingly brought to the agenda both in competition law studies and in the literature all over the world. In the files brought before the Competition Board; It is noteworthy that the sector has different competitive dynamics and, in this respect, a different and more complex structure and functioning than what is envisaged by the traditional legal framework.
Within the framework given above, understanding the (possible) competitive and anti-competitive effects caused by e-marketplaces and designing effective policies based on them constitute an important step in ensuring that the new economy has a healthy competitive order. E-Marketplace Platforms Sector Review was initiated by the Competition Board to pioneer this step.
In order to ensure maximum participation and data depth, the E-Marketplace Platforms Sector Review aims to consult the information of e-marketplaces, as well as consumers who shop and suppliers who sell on these platforms, and the associations of enterprises that represent them. With these data, it is aimed to present a comprehensive picture of the sector with a focus on competitiveness and to determine the steps that need to be taken in competition law and regulation to ensure effective and competitive functioning on the basis of this picture.“
The Competition Board currently has a lot of growing and don't have a monopoly will examine e-commerce platforms that are on their way. Depending on the results, it is thought that sanctions such as fines will be imposed on these companies.
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