The review and research procedures applied by the competition commission

Preventing anti-competitive; distorting or restrictive agreements, decisions and practices; and abusement of enterprises that dominate the market within the `goods and services market?, the necessary regulation and controls for the protection of competition are provided by the Law on Protection of Competition. The competition commission decides to make preliminary research for understanding that either directly, or that there is a need for opening an investigation or not upon the applications which refers to itself. If it decides to open an investigation, the parties shall be informed about this. Firstly, there are correspondence, the written claims and bringing forward advocacies phases. Then, oral defense phase begins, after then, the decision is reached finally. The principles which are dominated in these phases are examined individually in the light of principles of administrative procedure and civil procedure in our thesis. First, the subject, purpose and historical development of the law of competition were examined; in the following part of the thesis principles which are dominated in the Competition Law were described. Thereafter, separate explanations have been made on dominated judicial review about the principles of preliminary research, investigation, oral defense meeting, the final decision and the decisions of the Board.