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The Regulation on Zero Waste (the “Regulation”) in relation to procedures and principles regarding the establishment of the zero waste management system and the issuing of the zero waste certificate was published in Official Gazette number 30829 on 12 […]

With the Regulation regarding Amendment of the Regulation regarding Application of Industrial Property Law published in the Official Gazette dated 8 July 2019 and numbered 30825; in the case of Partial renewal of the trademark, Partial or complete withdrawal […]

The World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) has announced that it has received Brazil’s accession document to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks. Accordingly, Brazil has become a member state of the Madrid […]

Turkish Constitutional Court decided that dismissal of an applicant’s objection to the consumer arbitration committee’s decision as being time-barred, without considering the receipt date of the notice, violates the right of access to a court within the scope of […]

As stated in our previous article, Turkey introduced new plain packaging rules for tobacco with the Regulation on Methods and Procedures for Manufacturing, Labelling and Control of Tobacco Products (the “Regulation”) published in Official Gazette number 30701 on 1 […]

Pursuant to article 51 of the Law on Procedures of Collection of Public Receivables numbered 6183, default interest is applied monthly to the overdue portion of public receivables, starting from the maturity date. The rate of the respective default […]

General Court of the European Union (“General Court”) has considered the decision of the Cancellation Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (“EUIPO”) on invalidation of Adidas’ three vertical and parallel black stripes trademark registration. The General Court […]

Turkey’s Council of State has recently ruled that commencing execution proceedings against limited companies’ legal representatives is not mandatory in order to collect from the shareholders the tax debts that cannot be collected from the company itself. According to […]

Upon application of Yozgat 2nd Civil Court of First Instance, the Turkish Constitutional Court has annulled articles 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Law on Transfer of Companies’ Time-Barred Coupon Bond and Share Amounts to the Treasury numbered […]

Turkish Constitutional Court, on the basis of the 1st Tax Court of Kocaeli’s application, has decided that statement “…to be applied to transactions after 2 August 2013” in paragraph 1/(d) of article 76 of the Law on the Amendments […]