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Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS ISL 4035 COMPETITION LAW ELECTIVE 3 0 0 5

Offered By

Business Administration

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR ASLI TUTUCU

Offered to

Business Administration Business Administration (Evening)

Course Objective

This course aims to explain how and why state interventions are set forth by competition policies and drafted competition acts and restrictions in order to constitute an open market which provides maximum benefit for consumers and social welfare, competitors as well.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To state the reasons (aims) and scope of the legal instruments of competition law 2   To state competition theories; how competition is prevented, restricted or distorted 3   To understand the meaning of agreements, decisions and practices preventing, restricting or distorting competition 4   To determine why an exemption regime has been regulated and to explain the types and conditions of exemption 5   To explain the meaning of abuse of dominant position and to state the elements (forms) of dominant position 6   To state the substantial and procedural conditions for a merger or an acquisition not in breaching competition rules 7   To state the sanctions of any practice or transaction preventing, restricting or distorting competition

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description 1 Basic information on competition law as a subsidiary field of economics law 2 The aim of the protection of competition, resources and scope of the competition rules 3 Prohibition of cartelization and other forms of restricting competition; conditions for any prevention 4 Agreements, decisions and practices limiting competition between undertakings 5 Doctrinal interpretation of some concepts: prevention, restriction, distortion of competition, aim and effect of such agreement, decision or practice 6 Concept of exemption, reasons for an exemption regime. Conditions of individual and block exemptions 7 Concept and conditions of abuse of dominant position, restrictions on prohibition of abuse of dominant position 8 Midterm exam 9 Midterm exam 10 Concepts of merger and acquisition, procedures and types of mergers and acquisitions restrictions on mergers and acquisitions 11 Examples of relationship between competition law and intellectual property law 12 Sanctions of such act or transaction violating competition rules in comparison with Turkish and European Law; procedures followed by Turkish Competition Authority in investigations and examinations 13 Decisions of Turkish Competition Authority, consequences of violation of competition with private law aspects 14 General review with in terms of some principle decisions of Turkish Competition Authority

Recomended or Required Reading

I.Yılmaz Arslan, Rekabet Hukuku Dersleri, Bursa 2008 Pelin Güven, Rekabet Hukuku-Ders Kitabı, 2009 Ankara

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lecturing and presentations

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA 1 STT TERM WORK (SEMESTER) 2 MTE MIDTERM EXAM 3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE STT * 0.40 + MTE * 0.60 4 FIN FINAL EXAM 5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.40 + FIN * 0.60 6 RST RESIT 7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.40 + RST * 0.60 *** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

Will be announced later concurrently curriculum announcements in every semester.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours) Lectures 12 3 36 Preparation for midterm exam 1 9 9 Preparation for final exam 1 12 12 Preparing presentations 1 6 6 Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 4 48 Midterm 1 1 1 Final 1 1 1 TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 113

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LO PO.1 PO.2 PO.3 PO.4 PO.5 PO.6 PO.7 PO.8 PO.9 PO.10 PO.11 PO.12 PO.13 PO.14 PO.15 LO.1 1 LO.2 1 LO.3 1 LO.4 1 LO.5 1 LO.6 1 LO.7 1