Bibliographie sélective OHADA

After the end of the Cold War, students of International Relations observed an expansion of inter-state activities at the regional level. Regional and sub-regional groupings appeared to gain momentum as the way in which countries cooperate and should cooperate to pursue peace, stability, wealth and social justice. The surge and resurgence of regionalism has triggered the proliferation of concepts and approaches. The focus of this paper will be on processes and structures of state-led regionalism driven by the delegation of policies and political authority to regional institutions. Based on this understanding of regionalism, the existing literature will be reviewed with regard to three general questions. These questions do not only require research across regions but also allow developing a common research agenda to accumulate knowledge generated about specific regions. First, what are the outcomes of regionalism? How can we describe and compare the results of the delegation of policies and political authority? Second, what are the drivers of regionalism? Why do some governments choose to delegate policies and political authority while others do not? Finally, what are the internal effects of regionalism? How does the delegation of policies and political authority impact back on the domestic structures of the states involved?

L'uniformité du droit du transport international de marchandises par mer GURVAN BRANELLEC Docteur en droit Enseignant-chercheur ESC Bretagne-Brest Chercheur associé UMR AMURE L'uniformité du droit exerce un attrait idéologique sur les esprits épris de systématisation. Comme le souligne le Professeur DELMAS-MARTY, « le droit a horreur du multiple. Sa vocation c'est l'ordre unifié et hiérarchisé, unifié parce que hiérarchisé ». Cette uniformité apparaît comme un idéal de simplicité, de méthode, d'ordre. L'uniformité étant rarement spontanée, l'intervention du législateur est nécessaire. Dans cette optique, l'unification législative apparaît comme un travail d'élaboration scientifique de la solution la plus appropriée aux besoins communs : un droit le plus efficace et le plus simple possible. L'uniformité semble ainsi être porteuse de simplification. Cette simplification résulte de la substitution d'un droit unique à la complexité du système juridique. L'uniformité permettrait aussi d'assurer l'effectivité du droit car « il semble que la multiplication des normes, leur instabilité, leur excessive complexité faite de sédiments successifs pas ou peu cohérents, rend presque impossible un respect scrupuleux du droit » .

This thesis addresses issues of the Niger Delta question which represents one of the most intractable sources of socio-political destabilization in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The study is on the intricate dynamics amongst the Nigerian state, the transnational oi l corporations, the oil producing communities and the insurgent militia conflict. It investigates and explicates the "paradox of plenty" and the "resource curse", the "absentee government" and "state capture" and the debilitating effects of petroleum politics in Nigeria. The economic exploitation of the Niger Delta region's vast crude oil reserves by transnational oil corporations and government authorities is juxtaposed with the spectre of environmental degradation, human rights violations, and the recurrent rule of impunity. The protracted problems of the Niger Delta region thus, provide us with a pertinent analytical and contextual framework for the study of the dynamics and issues of transparency in other African petro-dollar states. It is argued in this study that the Niger Delta crisis is a conflict of values and fight for resources arising from decades of unacceptable standards of oil exploration and the absentee character of the Nigerian State . By its very nature, the study called for a qualitative approach, supplemented by unstructured interviews using aide memoirs with selected officials, on the basis of their innate knowledge of the subject matter. The legal comparative research method, with a historic component also played an integral role in this study. Some key findings and conclusions: 1. The study found that the Niger Delta crisis graduated from mere political agitations for state creation and provision of social amenities to extreme acts of hostage-taking and a twist of violence as a result of treating a major problem affecting the development of the Niger Delta people with levity for too long a period. 2. The study found that the on-going crisis in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria is a conflict of values and fight for resources amongst the oil-bearing people of the Niger Delta, transnational oil corporations and the Nigerian Government. 3. The study established some causal nexus between oil and poverty; oil and corruption; and, oil and human rights abuses. 4. That, the Niger Delta crude oil conflict is essentially a manifestation of state capture and inertia on the part of the Nigerian Government. 5. The study found that the Niger Delta economies are "criminalized" and are often characterized by conditions of anarchy and impunity. And this disorder is embedded in the dynamics of resource extraction, the nature and role of "shadow" state actors, as well as the interplay and patterns of relationships between organized criminal syndicates and the transnational oil corporations in the host communities. The study recommends, inter alia: I. That steps be taken by government to re-define its philosophy of national economic development from a state-driven to citizens-driven philosophy. To this end, Nigeria must seek to develop by developing its citizens, the aggregate of whose satisfactory living conditions should form the criteria for measuring national development. II . That effort must be made to steer the nation towards proper fiscal federalism. The present "food is ready" economy whereby federating units are enslaved to national "cake sharing" instead of value generation, discourages entrepreneurship and sustainable development. It promotes undue dependency on petroleum products, inequity and ethnic distrust. Ill. That Nigeria needs productive resource control, not just development in the sense of house and bridge building. What is needed is a noticeable leap in the standard of living in the Niger Delta. Thus, people and not federal accounts must be the object of improvement. IV. It is recommended that government should ensure robust, independent and co-ordinated oversight of the oil industry including its impact on human rights. V. Transnational oil corporations should undertake full corporate social responsibility and comprehensive assessment of the social and human rights impacts of all oil and gas projects, ensuring that adequate information is provided to affected individuals and communities and that the process is transparent. VI. It is strongly recommended that an Oil Pollution Liability Trust Fund should be established by the Federal Government in concert with oil companies. The fund will be made up of a percentage of tax levied on oil companies and a percentage of earnings of the Federal Government from oil. The fund should be used in ameliorating the conditions of the impacted environment and people. It is hoped that these findings and recommendations will go a long way in the quest for significant environmental and social improvements in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is about the relationship of organisations with society as a whole, and the need for organisations to align their values with societal expectations. Generally, CSR practice in Africa is thought to be adopted from Western business theories although there is evidence to suggest that Western CSR theories are not totally applicable in Africa. This is due to differences in drivers or causes of CSR in the West and in Africa, as well as cultural and managerial traits in Africa. This paper explores the limits of Western CSR Theories in Africa and argues that improved ethical responsibilities, incorporating good governance should be assigned the highest CSR priority in developing countries. It further adds that increased legislation, change in CSR priorities and the application of indigenous CSR theories such as Ubuntu, African Renaissance and Omuluwabi are means of countering the limits of Western CSR theories in Africa. Keywords: CSR, Western CSR Theory, Africa, Ubuntu, African Renaissance, Omuluwabi

The advent of Internet and digital technologies has radically transformed the way information is being produced and consumed. The consequences for copyright law are twofold. While digital media provide new opportunities for authors to produce and disseminate their works to the public, they simultaneously encourage and facilitate copyright infringement. Traditionally, in order to ensure compliance with the law, the copyright regime could rely upon the properties of physical media to constitute a natural barrier against copyright infringement. As the medium went digital, however, its properties became a catalyst for infringement. Designed for the physical world, the structure of the copyright does not adequately address the issues inherent to digital media. Private regulation therefore came into play in order to resolve the problem. While restrictive licensing agreements combined with technological measures of protection purport to reestablish a technological barrier against copyright infringement, permissive licenses such as Creative Commons purport to reduce the scope of protection granted by default under the law. Although differing in method, these approaches share a common goal: to realign the properties of the work with the properties of the digital medium by readjusting the legal attributes and technical characteristics of digital copies. As a legal concept, however, the notion of a copy must be precisely defined. After performing an ontological analysis of the copyright regime within the scope of the Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records and the Information Artifact Ontology, the research concludes that physical copies fundamentally differ from their digital counterpart. While the former qualify as a token, the latter qualify as a class that is capable of multiple instantiations. Moreover, given that the identity of a digital copy can no longer be defined by its physical characteristics, it is fundamentally for the copyright license to determine the scope of the copy to which it refers.

Formule coopérative méconnue, la coopérative d’activités et d’emploi (CAE) propose une alternative aux dispositifs d’auto-entrepreneuriat et de micro-entrepreneuriat, ou encore aux sociétés de portage salarial, dont l’essor résulte moins d’une appétence prétendument répandue pour la création d’entreprise que d’une atomisation du travail. Cet article est le fruit d’une recherche-action menée au sein de la CAE Coopaname par deux entrepreneurs-associés : il témoigne d’un processus de reconstruction d’un collectif face aux donneurs d’ordre et de lutte contre le moins-disant social. S’interrogeant sur la pertinence d’une représentation du personnel dans une structure où les salariés sont économiquement autonomes, les auteurs soulignent l’intérêt de cette expérience, qui permet de recréer un droit du travail au sein même du travail indépendant. Les institutions représentatives du travail apparaissent alors comme un outil de résistance à la précarisation et à la tentation de l’entrepreneur de s’auto-exploiter. A cooperative form that is not widely known, ''business and employment cooperatives'' (cooperative d’activités et d’emplois -- CAE) provide an alternative to individual self-employment and micro-enterprise subcontractors as well as conventionally managed companies made up of freelancers, which have grown less from the supposedly widespread desire to create new companies than from the fragmentation of employment. This article is based on the action-research of two member entrepreneurs of the Coopaname CAE. It recounts the process of setting up a collective enterprise dealing with customers’ orders and the fight against poor conditions. Questioning the relevance of employee representation in an organization where the employees are economically independent, the authors highlight the value of this experience, which allows members the same rights as employees while being self-employed. Formal employee representation thus becomes a tool for resisting precarious employment conditions and the temptation for the self-employed to exploit themselves.

This thesis explores the interactions between French and foreign influenced formal commercial law in the Republic of Benin and women's on-the-ground business practices. It uses a comparative, historical and inter-disciplinary and empirical methodology (Clinical legal pluralism). It contributes to the debate on the relationship between law and socio-economic development in African States where formal law is modeled on that of their former colonizing power. The dissertation looks at the evolution of business law and of economic activity in the region from pre-colonial times to present where OHADA Uniform Acts ("Acts") largely inspired by French and foreign law constitute Beninese formal commercial law's primary source. The thesis then examines elements of businesswomen's socio-cultural realities and economic practices in the region to assess the extent to which they are accounted for in formal law. The analysis reveals the considerable gap that continues to exist between the Western-inspired Acts and the realities and modes of Beninese women entrepreneurs. While the OHADA regime may benefit French and other foreign companies that contribute to the region's economic vitality to varying extents, the difficult appropriation and access by a majority of citizens and enterprises in Benin to OHADA laws prevent Beninese (in particular female) small and medium enterprises from playing a greater role in the socio-economic development of their countries. The dissertation suggests that the paradigms and methods currently used by OHADA and international organizations such as the World Bank in their law reform activities do not take appropriate account of economic, social and cultural realities of the regions where the new law is to be implemented. These include gender issues in business practices. It argues that commercial law reformers should recognise the central role of citizens in creating the law. Finally, it outlines an analytical framework for applying these objectives so as to empower citizens in Benin as lawmakers. This framework will integrate some of existing law reform paradigms with additional ones focused on the identity of legal actors in the region (banks, small, medium and large entrepreneurs, micro-credit institutions, financiers, etc.), the dynamics between them, the role of women in business and alternative legal reform methods based on bottom-up approaches to law. Ce mémoire s'intéresse aux interactions entre le droit commercial d'inspiration française ou étrangère dans la République du Bénin avec les réalités pratiques que les femmes commerçantes y vivent sur le terrain. Une méthodologie comparative, historique et interdisciplinaire y est employée (pluralisme juridique clinique). Il se veut une contribution au débat sur la relation entre le droit et le développement socio-économique dans les États Africains où le droit formel prend modèle sur celui de leur ancienne métropole.L'auteure débute en examinant l'évolution du droit des affaires et de l'activité économique dans la région à partir de l'époque précoloniale jusqu'à aujourd'hui, où les Actes Uniformes OHADA (les « Actes »), fondés largement sur le droit Français et étranger, constituent la source la plus importante du droit commercial Béninois.Elle poursuit en explorant les réalités socioculturelles et les pratiques économiques des femmes commerçantes dans la région afin de vérifier dans quelle mesure elles sont prises en compte par le droit formel. Cette analyse révèle un écart considérable qui perdure entre les Actes d'inspiration occidentale et les réalités et pratiques des femmes commerçantes Béninoises.Bien que le régime OHADA puisse bénéficier aux investisseurs Français et étrangers qui contribuent, à divers degrés, à l'activité économique dans la région, la difficulté pour une majorité de citoyens et d'entreprises Béninois à s'approprier ou accéder aux Actes empêchent les petites et moyennes entreprises Béninoises (particulièrement celles dirigées par des femmes) de jouer un plus grand rôle dans le développement socioéconomique de leur pays.L'auteure postule que les paradigmes et méthodes employés par l'OHADA ainsi que par des organisations internationales telles la Banque Mondiale dans le cadre de leurs activités de réforme législative ne tiennent pas suffisamment compte des réalités économiques, sociales et culturelles des régions où leurs réformes sont mises en œuvre. Ces réalités comprennent les questions liées au genre dans le cadre des pratiques commerciales. L'auteure suggère que les réformateurs du droit commercial reconnaissent davantage le rôle central que les citoyens jouent dans la création du droit.Enfin, le mémoire trace les contours d'un cadre analytique qui applique ces objectifs de façon à réhabiliter les citoyens Béninois à titre de créateurs de droit. Ce cadre intègre quelques-uns des paradigmes existants sur la réforme du droit avec de nouveaux paradigmes centrés sur l'identité des acteurs juridiques dans la région (les banques, les petites, moyennes et grandes entreprises, les institutions de microcrédit, les investisseurs, etc.), les dynamiques entre eux, le rôle des femmes dans le milieu des affaires et les méthodes alternatives de réforme législative fondées sur une approche juridique du bas vers le haut.

The draft uniform act on contracts proposed for adoption by the Organization for the Harmonization of Business Laws in Africa ("OHADA") is a combination of continental and common-law concepts. To be effective in parts of the world where the informal sector is particularly important, for example in the 16 West and Central African states where OHADA currently operates, contract law must be particularly attentive to avoiding traps for the unwary. For this reason, enforcing gratuitous contracts may well be defensible, but requiring registration of commercial actors is not. The complexity of two OHADA laws applicable to contracts, however, increases the risk that law and norms will not overlap, creating just such a trap.

This thesis, exploring the rule of law for international rules, offers a human bond of common good between determinacy of substance and legitimacy of structure of rules in order to evaluate international obligations of States in international law on foreign investment. In an in-depth exposition of the theoretical underpinnings and practices underlying the normative structure of rules in international law, the thesis critically questions the legal reasoning embedded in—and the authority of rules borrowed from—principles and precedents or moral and political evaluations by arbitrators in interpretation of States' contractual, customary, and treaty obligations in investment arbitrations. With crucial moral, political, social and economic ramifications for the constitutional functions of States and concomitant interests of their human members implicated in the concept of expropriation in international law, the thesis provides a framework of legitimacy in a common good approach with structural criteria of recognition and coherence for the interpretation of States' obligations in investment arbitration. Coherence brings to the fore conflicting demands of justice requiring fresh evaluation divesting a general rule of its authoritative force, and recognition brings to the fore the validation of the power to engage in moral and political evaluation. Together, these structural criteria offer a common good approach of legitimacy to test the authority of States' obligations and the power of arbitrators in hard cases. By virtue of these criteria, the thesis characterizes the nature of substantive property rights of corporations and corresponding obligations of States in foreign investment as contingent and consensual in contrast with the absolute and constitutional rights of human beings in human rights. Through coherence and recognition, the thesis also portrays a supreme status for customary international law for the normative structure and substance of States' contractual or treaty obligations in the interpretation of hard cases in international law on foreign investment. The thesis espouses a new horizon for legal reasoning in foreign investment arbitration that eschews the lex lata veneer for lex ferenda propositions manufactured from precedents and principles, on the one hand, and the sheen of law for the conception of justice of investor-State arbitrators, on the other, in cases of hard confrontation between the demands of justice.

L’une des actualités intéressantes de ces deux titres de transport est la question de leur dématérialisation. Cette idée est apparue au début des années 1990, c'est-à-dire depuis le développement de l’informatique et des échanges de données via internet. En effet, que ce soit le connaissement, la lettre de transport maritime ou la lettre de transport aérien, tous les trois sont au cœur du sujet. La double question qui nous occupera est alors de savoir quels ont été les raisons et les problèmes rencontrés lors de la dématérialisation de ces titres de transport, puis de savoir si la dématérialisation du connaissement a influencé la dématérialisation de la LTA ou inversement. Ainsi, dans une première partie, il sera traité du titre de transport papier classique. La deuxième partie touchera au passage du titre de transport à l’ère électronique.

No início do novo milênio, a formação de blocos econômicos regionais foi-se apresentando como estratégia de promoção do desenvolvimento para os países periféricos. Tratando-se da África Ocidental, a integração de seus pequenos países com vista a usufruir as vantagens decorrentes desse processo resulta em última instância, a solução potencial de seus diversos problemas, e a resposta da sua marginal posição na atual globalização. São países que enfrentam malformações estruturais e situações dramáticas de pobreza e miséria produto de séculos de exploração, repartição desinteressada e agressiva de seus territórios a beneplácito da acirrada competência imperialista e da colonização posterior. Neste sentido, esta tese propõe responder duas perguntas: quais as causas do estabelecimento de uma união econômica e monetária numa região sem condições prévias e se esta integração está conduzindo ou não a seus países ao desenvolvimento. A mesma parte da hipótese de a integração regional na atualidade ser a alternativa mais viável para garantir a sustentabilidade do processo de desenvolvimento nesta região. O objetivo da tese é analisar a dinâmica regional da integração da UEMOA, que surgiu contrária à visão convencional das teorias monetárias, como estratégia do desenvolvimento, e em seguida, vincular seus resultados ao desenvolvimento econômico dos países da região. Ressalta-se que foi dada prioridade a literatura africana, não por rechaço ou demérito da produção ocidental sobre o tema, mas pelo entendimento de que, neste aspecto específico, as opiniões dos autores africanos dariam um melhor enriquecimento e uma visão mais realista sobre o tema. Conclui-se que independentemente de não seguir as diretrizes convencionais, a integração da UEMOA está sendo fundamental para o desenvolvimento de seus países, segundo a realidade da região. Portanto, sua análise deve ser realizada acorde a especificidade local, sem esquecer as conseqüências do seu passado histórico que ainda repercutem negativamente na sua situação socioeconômico. Ou seja, sua valoração não deve seguir o modelo das regiões desenvolvidas ou emergentes, mas sim desde a perspectiva das duras realidades da região.

The provisions of Ohada bankruptcy law present the control of execution of the legal settlement procedure for a company in crisis. The lawmaker of Unified Business Laws for Africa institutes different operations of control and persons in charge of these operations. However, after thorough analysis, we can discover many insufficiencies of control. In order to improve the execution of the legal settlement procedure for the safeguarding of company in crisis, it is necessary to re examine the regulation of the control.

Kurumların birleşme, bölünme, kısmi bölünme ve hisse değişimi yoluyla yeniden yapılandırılma işlemleri başta ticaret hukuku olmak üzere, rekabet hukuku, sermaye piyasası hukuku ve vergi hukuku gibi birçok hukuk dalını ilgilendiren çok disiplinli bir alandır. Ticaret hukuku, genel olarak yeniden yapılandırma işlemlerinde şirket alacaklarının ve ortaklarının haklarının korunmasını amaçlamaktayken, vergi hukuku söz konusu işlemler sonucunda ortaya çıkan kâr ile ilgilenmektedir. Yeniden yapılanma işlemlerin vergisel maliyeti, bunların önündeki en önemli engeli teşkil etmektedir. Bu sebeple, tüm hukuk sistemlerinde vergisel açıdan tarafsızlığı sağlayıcı hükümler yer almaktadır.Çalışmamızda, özellikle, üye devletler arasındaki ekonomik ilişkilerin artırılarak, ekonomik gelişmenin ve refahın sağlanması yoluyla güçlü bir topluluk yaratma amacı taşıyan Avrupa Birliği Hukuku ve Türk Hukukunda yeniden yapılandırma işlemlerinin vergisel boyutu incelenmiştir. Avrupa Birliği Mevzuatına uyum sağlama çalışmaları çerçevesinde dolaysız vergiler alanında yapılması gereken düzenlemelerden birisi de vergi kanunlarında şirketlerin bölünmesini ve hisse değişimini kolaylaştırıcı, kalıcı mahiyette hükümler getirmek olmuştur. Dolayısıyla Avrupa Birliği Birleşme mevzuatı, tam üyelik sürecindeki ülkemiz açısından önem arz etmektedir.Çalışmamızın birinci bölümünde birleşme, bölünme, kısmi bölünme ve hisse değişimi müesseselerinin kavramsal esasları, Kurumlar Vergisi Kanunu, Türk Ticaret Kanunu ve Yeni Türk Ticaret Kanunu ile ilgili Avrupa Birliği mevzuatı çerçevesinde ortaya konulmaya çalışılacaktır. İkinci bölümde, birleşme, bölünme, kısmi bölünme, aktif transferi ve hisse değişimine ilişkin temel Avrupa Birliği düzenlemesi olan Birleşme Direktifi, Avrupa Birliği Adalet Divanı kararları çerçevesinde incelenecektir. Son bölümde ise Türk vergi mevzuatındaki, birleşme, bölünme ve hisse değişimine ilişkin hükümler tereddütlü noktalara da değinilmek suretiyle ele alınacaktır. Sonuç bölümünde birleşme, bölünme, kısmi bölünme ve hisse değişimi müesseselerine ilişkin değerlendirmelerimize yer verilmiştir. Transactions concerning the restructuring of companies through mergers, divisions, partial divisions and exchanges of shares relate to a multi disciplinary domain, including commercial law, competition law, capital markets law and tax law. While commercial law generally aims at the protection of rights of company?s creditors and shareholders, tax law is mostly interested with the profit generated through these transactions. The tax cost of restructuring transactions, constitutes the main obstacle for those. For this reason, all legal systems include provisions providing tax neutrality regarding these transactions.In this study, we have analysed the tax law dimension of restructuring transactions especially in Turkish Law and Law of European Union which aims at the creation of a strong community through the development of economic relations between member states. Within the context of harmonisation to the European Union Legislation, one of the necessary regulations concerning direct taxes has been the enactment of tax law provisions enabling the division of companies and exchanges of shares thereof. Consequently, EU Merger Legislation is of utmost importance for Turkey as a candidate state.The first chapter of this study presents the conceptual basis of the transactions in question within the context of Corporate Tax Law, Commercial Law and the New Commercial Law and EU Legislation. The second chapter examines the Merger Directive within the framework of jurisprudences of European Court of Justice. The last chapter deals with problematic issues in Turkish Tax and Commercial laws. We conclude by presenting our evaluations based on previous chapters.

Haksız rekabet hukuku, ticarî hayatın gerektirdiği dürüstlüğü sağlamak ve rekabet etme serbestîsini bu yönden sınırlamak amacıyla ortaya çıkmıştır. İlk olarak, haksız rekabet eyleminden zarar gören rakiplerin menfaatleri(ekonomik kişilikleri) korunmuştur. Daha sonra, rakibin kişiliği ile doğrudan bağlantısı bulunmayan ve hattâ rakip olmayanların menfaatlerinin de(müşteri, tüketici) zarar görebildiği farklı haksız rekabet eylemlerinin ortaya çıkması neticesinde, dürüst rekabetin temin edilmesinde, sadece rakiplerin değil; toplumun(tüketici dahil) da menfaatinin bulunduğu kabul edilmiştir. Bu yaklaşım, haksız rekabet hukuku ile korunan menfaat çevresinin genişlemesine zemin oluşturmuştur.Kartel kanunlarının etkisiyle, haksız rekabet hukukunun da tıpkı rekabetin korunması hukuku gibi, rekabet serbestisini ve rekabeti kurum olarak koruduğu, bu sebeple, ekonomik düzenin gerçekleşmesine katkıda bulunduğu ve ekonomi politikaları ile ilgisinin olduğu ileri sürülmüş ve uygulama alanının genişletilmesi önerilmişse de, bu görüşler kalıcı olamamıştır.Haksız rekabet ile ilgili düzenlemelerin(1986 tarihli İsviçre Haksız Rekabete Karşı Kanunu, 2004 tarihli Alman Haksız Rekabet Kanunu ve Temmuz 2012'de yürürlüğe girecek olan 6102 sayılı Türk Ticaret Kanunu'nun haksız rekabetle ilgili hükümleri) amacı, tüm ilgililerin lehine dürüst ve bozulmamış rekabeti temin etmektir. "Bozulmamış rekabet" kavramından, piyasa ekonomisi kurumu olarak rekabetin bozulması anlaşılmamalıdır. Haksız rekabet hukuku, dürüstlük kurallarına aykırı davranışın, ilgili mal ya da hizmetin tedavülü ile bağlantısı olan çevrelerin pazar davranışını ve böylelikle pazara katılanlar arasındaki ilişkileri etkileyip etkilemediği ile ilgilenir. Davranışın ya da kullanılan yöntemin, salt aldatıcı nitelikte olmasından hareketle haksız rekabet teşkil ettiği söylenemez. Bu nedenle, haksız rekabetle ilgili düzenlemelerin amacının, pazara katılanlar bakımından dürüst ve bozulmamış rekabetin temini olarak yorumlanması gerektiğini düşünüyoruz.Öte yandan, belli bir pazar gücüne sahip teşebbüslerin, piyasa yapısı üzerinde, rekabeti bütünüyle ya da önemli ölçüde ortadan kaldırabilecek düzeydeki uygulamaları, haksız rekabet hukukunun uygulama alanı içerisinde değerlendirilemez. Pazar gücünün denetimi ve piyasa yapısının korunması, münhasıran rekabetin korunması hukukunun konularıdır. Dolayısıyla, haksız rekabet hukuku ve rekabetin korunması hukuku, farklı açılardan rekabet kurumunun korunmasına hizmet etmektedir. Unfair competition law aims at assuring fairness in commercial affairs and restricting the freedom of competition from this respect. Firstly, the interests(the economic personality) of competitors who were damaged by the unfair competition act were protected. Next, as a result of different unfair competition acts which are not directly related to the personality of the competitor and even by which the interests of non-competitors might be damaged(client, consumer), it has been accepted that not only the competitors, but, also the public(including consumer) has an interest on the assurance of fair competition. This approach has established a basis for the enlargement of the scope of protected interests.Under the influence of cartel laws, it has been claimed that, like competition law, unfair competition law protects the freedom of competition and the competition itself as an institution and therefore, unfair competition law contributes to the settlement of economic order and has a relation with economy policies and its scope of application should be extended. Nonetheless, this idea did not remain.The aim of the unfair competition rules(Swiss Code Against Unfair Competition, German Act Against Unfair Competition and the provisions on unfair competition of Turkish Commercial Code which shall enter into force by July 2012) is in favour of all concerned parties, to assure fair and undistorted competition. By the concept of "undistorted competition", it should not be understood the distortion of competition as an institution of market economy. Unfair competition law is concerned with whether the unfair conduct influences or not the market behaviour of the milieu, which is related to the exchange of the concerned good or service, and eventually the relations between market participants. The conduct or the applied method could not be qualified as unfair competition, solely by its deceptive nature. For this reason, the aim of the unfair competition rules should be interpreted as the assurance of fair and undistorted competition with respect to the market participants.However, the practices of enterprises with certain market power, which could annihilate, completely or to a considerable extent, the competition in the market could not be treated in scope of unfair competition law. The control of market power and the protection of market structure are exclusively the matters of competition law. Therefore, unfair competition law and competition law serve to the protection of competition as an institution from different aspects.