17 May 2017
The Turkish Patent and Trademark Office (“TPTO”) has released its annual report (“Report”), outlining 2016 statistics for patents, trademarks, industrial designs, utility models and geographical indications, as well as insight into the TPTO’s administrative structure and financial status. Notable […]
10 May 2017
Turkey continues to make changes to food regulations in order to harmonize its approach with the European Union (more). New regulations introduce principles and procedures for adding vitamins, minerals and certain other items to foods. These also update restrictions […]
3 May 2017
The Turkish Competition Board (“Board“) recently published a reasoned decision, deciding not to initiate a full scope investigation into an anonymous allegation of customer sharing and price fixing for bulk cement by six cement producers in the Eastern Mediterranean […]
26 Apr 2017
The Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) will conduct a full scope investigation into Google’s exclusivity agreements with original equipment manufacturers. The Board had previously ruled (after a preliminary investigation) that such a review was not necessary. However, the Board’s decision […]
19 Apr 2017
Turkey has amended the support scheme for R&D and design activities to now include third party services. The change means external legal counselling regarding designs, trademarks and patents is now eligible to be included in the government financial support […]
12 Apr 2017
Turkey’s Environmental and Urbanisation Ministry has introduced new principles for wind and solar power plants (“WPP” and “SPP” respectively). The rules outline restrictions on existing and new generation facilities in protected natural areas, as well as criteria where the […]
5 Apr 2017
Turkey’s energy regulator has updated the electricity market license regulatory regime. The changes relate to integration of general principles for production licenses and pre-licenses for Renewable Energy Resource Areas (“RERA”) within the existing licencing regime (more). The Energy Market […]
29 Mar 2017
Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (“Board”) has introduced an extra condition for actions which will be deemed to constitute market abuse. Accordingly, the perpetrator of the action must now also make an order or transaction regarding the capital market instrument, […]
22 Mar 2017
Turkey’s Capital Markets Board (“Board”) has introduced new thresholds, scope of information and processes for disclosing material events, as well as amended announcement processes for the Public Disclosure Platform to ensure the market activities are in line with the […]
