The Competition Council, which discussed the information, documents and findings obtained in the preliminary investigation in its meeting of 07.09.2023, considered the findings serious and sufficient; It was decided to initiate an investigation against Duracell Sales and Distribution Limited Company, number 23-41/786-M.

These situations are in particular:

a) Determining the purchase or sale price of goods or services, the factors that determine the price, such as costs and profit, and all kinds of purchase or sale conditions,
b) Sharing or controlling market resources or elements of all kinds by dividing markets for goods or services,
c) Controlling the demand or supply quantity of goods or services or determining it outside the market,
d) Complicating or restricting the activities of competing enterprises, or excluding enterprises from the market through boycott or other conduct, or preventing new entrants from entering the market,
e) Applying different conditions to persons of equal status for equal rights, duties and actions, with the exception of exclusive franchise;
f) Contrary to the nature of the contract or to commercial practice, which requires the purchase of another good or service together with a good or service, or makes a good or service requested by buyers acting as intermediaries dependent the exhibition of another good or service by the buyer, or the enforcement of conditions relating to the re-delivery of a purchased good or service,

In cases where the existence of an agreement cannot be proven, the fact that price changes on the market, the balance between supply and demand, or the areas of activity of the undertakings are similar to those in markets where competition is prevented, constitutes an disturbance or limited, a presumption that the undertakings are involved in concerted action.

Provided it is based on economic and rational facts, each party can avoid liability by proving that it did not act in concert.