News and Publications

The Turkish Competition Authority recently published a decision about a negative clearance/individual exemption application for an agreement between two competing insurance companies. The Competition Board’s (“Board”) decision signals that co-insurance and re-insurance agreements between competitors should be considered competition […]

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 […]

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority has introduced principles for natural gas distribution license holders to determine tariffs, identify investments deemed to be network building expenditures, as well as upper limits for these investments. The principles are intended to increase […]

Turkey’s Energy Markets Regulatory Authority (“Authority”) has determined procedures and principles for investments necessary to deliver natural gas to areas with populations over 20,000 which do not fall within licenses holders’ current geographic license scopes. BOTAŞ, the state-owned transmission […]

LPG license amendment fees will no longer apply in Turkey for address changes to lots, sections and parcels. Address changes due to the authorized administration changing the name of the street, boulevard etc. were already exempt from the license […]

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Board (“Board”) has amended certain requirements for the Petroleum Pipeline Corporation’s (BOTAS) operation of the national natural gas transmission pipeline network. Changes apply to time limits for End of Day Trade, notifications regarding capacity transfers […]

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority (“Authority”) has introduced changes to official names, types and Custom Tariff Statistics Position (“CTSP”) numbers, as well as classifications for marketable petroleum products. The Authority has also announced official names for marine and aviation […]

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Board (“Board”) has announced procedures and principles for natural gas connection and service fees, as well as maximum connection rates and service fees for 2017. Decisions numbered 6807 and 6810 were issued on 26 December […]

Turkey has amended legislative arrangements for electricity consumer tariffs. Changes apply to pricing methods for consumers to use electricity distribution systems, expanded definitions for technical and non-technical electricity leakage and losses (now including losses caused by illegal uses), as […]

Turkey has increased administrative fines relating to electricity, natural gas, petroleum and liquefied petroleum gas by 3.83% for 2017. The revised rates will apply for administrative fines issued between 1 January 2017 and 31 December 2017. The increases are […]