Subject: According to this service definition
made in TKHK, it is aimed to propose solutions
in the light of the deficiencies and legal
regulations in the application of the car rental
contract concluded between the tenant (the
provider) and the tenant (consumer) to be used
in the lease.
Private Law regulates the relations of persons
with each other. For this reason, the rules
within the Private Legal system are the rules
which are basically regulative and aim to ensure
justice through legal equality between the
parties. In our private law system, unlike these
general rules of private law, there are all
special regulations. These include special
arrangements, where one side of the contract is
kept more prominent than the other, and is
clearly protected as a weaker part of the
contract.
In particular, the rules of labor law, tenancy
law and consumer law may be mentioned in this
context, and the rules of this group refer to
the idea of a social state. The Consumer
Protection Act No. 4077, which was accepted on
23.02.1995 for the protection of consumers in
the Turkish legal system, was published in the
Official Journal on 08.03.1995 and has entered
into force. This law has been almost completely
changed by Law No. 4822 of 06.03.2003.
Article 3 of the TKHK defines the consumer as "a
natural or legal person who purchases, uses or
makes use of a good or service for a commercial
or non-commercial purpose. TK. Based on this
consumer definition, the elements of the
consumer concept can be identified. These
factors are that the consumer is neither
commercial nor industrial, while the consumer is
a real or legal person, regardless of whether
the consumer purchases a good or service. In the
same Article, all natural or legal persons
providing services to consumers in the course of
their commercial or professional activity,
including legal entities of public law
(sağlayıcı), and the definition of the provider,
who declared in writing, to the service were
also all other species activities as the
provision of goods for consideration or benefit
of Aynı. it was determined. According to this
service definition in TKHK, the leasing
activity, which is carried out only for the
purpose of using and not returning the goods,
but also returning the goods, is a service that
can be assessed in this context. This study
attempts to present the proposed solutions,
taking into account the deficiencies and legal
provisions of the rental agreement between the
tenant (provider) named in the contract and the
tenant (consumer) used for the rent.
The Lessee (the Provider) shall provide the
Lessee (Provider) for the period specified in
the Contract, who assigns the vehicle in his
possession to the Lease Service under the terms
of the Lease Agreement. In the application it
can be seen that companies offering car rental
companies have a minimum rental period of 1 day
for Söz in car rental contracts and general
transaction conditions. The service that is
calculated over this 1 (one) day is included in
the insurance activities (additional types
specified) and additional sales amounts as well
as the rental activity. In this application,
however, there is a possibility that this study
will highlight proposals for resolution and
legislation on this topic. It is the will and
action of the consumer who wants to use this
service for less than 24 hours. This is the
party of the leases with a minimum rental period
of 1 (one) day.
In order to benefit from the service, the
customer who has signed a lease agreement with
the provider of the car rental service for less
than 24 hours will be given 24 hours of service
fee, insurance costs and additional sales fees
in accordance with the General Conditions of
Sale and the Rent Agreement which are prepared
unilaterally by the provider. if you pay over a
rental. The rental period, which is the basis
for the rental price, will be less than 24 hours
by the consumer will, but the request to benefit
from the service will direct the consumer to
these conditions. The rental amount under the
lease agreement between the service provider and
the consumer and the insurance and additional
sales prices from the optional services are
determined on a minimum of 1 (one) day
regardless of the consumer's will.In the same
day, if there is more than one consumer leasing
the same vehicle for less than 24 hours, the
service provider will be based on 1 (one) day on
each service contract, and more than one
consumer will receive unfairly repeated earnings
for the same vehicle. Considering that there are
multiple vehicles in the car rental office of
the service provider and the same process is
repeated for each one, it will be possible to
see that the unfair gain reaches significant
dimensions. Example; a consumer's 5 hour rental
will be the subject, but over the 1 (one) day
over the lease agreement as a result of the
service provided to the provider as a result of
the service provided to the provider, then a new
consumer for less than 24 hours, but again 1
(one) day to be over will be made available.It
is seen that 1 (one) day costs made for the
leasing period less than 24 hours will be
realized several times and unfair gains will be
made.
The rental agreement between the service
provider and the consumer, which is the basis
for the leasing, insurance and additional sales
prices, is arranged unilaterally by the provider
company and is presented to the consumer without
providing alternative conditions in order to
benefit from the car rental service it provides.
Therefore, if the consumer wishes to benefit
from the service, he / she will be obliged to
accept the stated ası minimum rental 1 day de
requirement without opening the negotiations
under the conditions of the Lease Agreement.
In the contract law, besides the individual
contract models, the types of formulary
contracts with general terms of operation arose,
and the formular conventions which contain the
general terms and conditions which we can call
standard conventions are prepared by the
entrepreneur who is the strong side of the
contract. These contracts are signed with the
consumer, who is the weaker side of the economy,
as prepared by the entrepreneur. Therefore, the
imbalances against the consumers may arise in
the said contracts. For this reason, the
legislators felt the need to make arrangements
to protect consumers against entrepreneurs who
offer goods or services in order to maintain a
balance between the parties.Law No. 4822
amending the Turkish Commercial Code has
introduced a general regime to protect consumers
in all consumer contracts against unfair
contract terms. Article 6 of Consumer Protection
Act 4077, which has brought significant benefits
to the consumer, was regulated as follows:
unfair conditions in the contract
Article 6 - (amended article: 06/03/2003 -
4822S.K./7. Art.)
The terms of the contract which cause the seller
or the provider to unilaterally contract without
the agreement with the consumer and which
contradicts the good faith rule in the
contractual rights and obligations of the
parties are unjustified. The unfair terms
contained in any contract that one of the
parties constitutes is not binding on the
consumer.If a contract condition has been
prepared in advance and has not been able to
influence the consumer content, in particular
because it is included in the standard contract,
it is accepted that the contract is not
negotiated with the consumer.
If it is concluded that it is a standard
contract from the overall evaluation of the
contract, the negotiation of certain elements or
individual provisions of a condition in this
contract shall not prevent the application of
this article to the remainder of the contract.
If a vendor or provider suggests that a standard
condition is individually discussed, it is the
burden of proof.6 / A, 6 / B, 6 / C, 7, 9, 9 /
A, 10, 10 / A and 11 / A articles in the form of
articles in the form of at least twelve point
and dark black lettering is regulated and the
conditions of the contract must be in the
absence of one or more, the deficiency does not
affect the validity of the contract. This
deficiency is remedied immediately by the vendor
or provider.The Ministry sets out the principles
and procedures for determining the unfair terms
in the standard contracts and removing them from
the text of the contract.
A regulation on unfair terms relating to unfair
terms in consumer contracts, the terms of
contract used by the seller, supplier or lender
without having to negotiate with the consumer;
Article 5 reads as follows:Unfair and unfair
terms Article 5 - If a contract term has been
established in advance and has had no impact on
the consumer's content, in particular because it
is included in the standard contract, it is
assumed that the terms of the contract will not
be negotiated with the consumer.
If it is concluded from the overall assessment
of the contract that it is a standard contract,
the negotiation of certain elements or
individual terms of a condition of this contract
does not prevent the application of this article
to the remainder of the contract.
If a vendor, vendor, or lender claims that a
standard condition is discussed individually,
then this is the burden of proof.The Annex to
this Regulation contains a list of conditions
that may be considered unjustified, but are not
indicative EU Directive 93/13 on misuse of
contracts in consumer contracts of the Council
of Ministers of the European Parliament on the
Ordinance on unfair terms in consumer contracts
Yön is also subject to EU Directive 93/13. and
against unilaterally standardized agreements, in
particular unilaterally. As mentioned above,
contracts protected under the EU Directive are
all types of contracts that can not (or may not)
be negotiated by the parties, provided that they
are made up of general processing conditions.
At this point it would be useful to refer to the
provisions of the non-negotiated contract. The
distinguishing features of non-negotiable
contract terms fall under two headings:
The contract was prepared in advance
Possibility of negotiation between the parties
It can be seen that the concept of the prepared
provision for the provision of legislation is
broader than the concept of the general
transaction. In this context, Law No 4077 on the
protection of consumers and the regulation on
unfair terms in consumer contracts and the
Turkish legal system are in line with the
Directive. This assurance not only covers the
protection of the consumer from the general
operating conditions. It also protects the
consumer from the provisions of the contract
imposed on the consumer with a unilateral will,
without being negotiated with the consumer.
From the above explanations we will see that; If
the provisions of the unilateral provision of
the supplier to the consumer, without
negotiating with the supplier, have been
unfairly excluded from the contract and have
caused an imbalance with the consumer, this will
not necessarily be provided by the Turkish law
and the legal provisions and in this case given
the legal will was located next to it.
We therefore believe that the leasing contract,
which is the only condition for using the
service and is not negotiated with the consumer,
has the right to demand additional payments for
the hours when the consumer did not use the
rental car even though it was signed by the
consumer. In order to use the service, it is not
possible for the consumer to supplement the
contract in which he is involved and to evaluate
the unavailable alternatives. This situation is
contrary to the Law on the Protection of
Consumers No. 4077 and the freedom of contract
according to the Turkish Code of Obligations No.
6098 and is unfair.
Although the consumer has the will and the right
to avail himself of the rental service in less
than 24 hours, all service charges, insurance
costs and additional sales amounts that should
be calculated on the basis of the contract
concluded with the provider for one day. In this
way, the same 1 (one) day insurance for the
vehicle to be put back into service after the
short term leases are delivered to the rental
office after the same day.
Consequently, in order to avoid such situations
of fairness and fairness (m.3) of the Civil Code
and in violation of the rules of good faith
(m.3), and additional sales fees should be
deducted. Since the vehicle used for the car
rental service has been insured once for each
day it is put into service by the provider, the
service fee, insurance cost and additional sales
amounts will be paid by the renting vehicle on
the same day by the car rental customers, as
well as the car insurance will continue to
exist.
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