Single Continuing Agreement

Abstract

Following the previous three issues, focusing specifically on regulation and law scope, the 4th issue of ACTECON Papers concentrates on Competition Law which is the most important profession of ACTECON. The 4th issue deals with the 'single continuing agreement' concept, which once again becomes a current issue of the Turkish Competition Authority’s (TCA) investigations and eliminates the differences between 'agreement' and 'concerted practice' in terms of evidence.In Competition Law literature, single continuing agreement concept is one of the most important legal instruments used for identifying anti-competitive cooperation between competitors continuing throughout a long time period. However, as competition authorities often discuss, in which cases this concept should be implemented? Thus, in this article titled, 'Single Continuing Agreement', written by one of our senior consultants, Bahadir Balki, we emphasize on the legal standards required for the single continuing agreement to be established. In this context, we will present you the practice of TCA on single continuing agreement by evaluating Automotive Investigation decision in which the highest administrative fine has been imposed on undertakings in TCA’s history with a critical approach as it is inconsistent with TCA’s previous decisions and EU precedents.