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The Communiqué on Qualification Certificate for Environmental Impact Assessment (“Communiqué”) updating the principles and procedures, conditions, application process, and audit procedures regarding the Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) qualification certificate, has entered into force on 29 November 2019. Under the […]

Considering the recent developments in information technologies, Turkey’s Revenue Administration (“Administration”) issued the General Communiqué on Tax Procedural Law numbered 509 (“General Communiqué”) aiming to establish unity with regards to electronic document practices and to ensure that the parties […]

The Turkish Constitutional Court ruled that the amount of the administrative fine imposed on the applicants (“Applicants”) bringing foreign currency into Turkey without fulfilling the notification and approval obligations is disproportionate and therefore violates the applicants’ rights to property. […]

Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided to conduct an investigation to Turkish Pharmacists’ Association for violation of article 4 (restrictive trade practices and concerted practices) of the Law number 4054 on the Protection of Competition (“Law”). As a result of […]

Turkey’s Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) has extended the deadline for registration with the Data Controller Registry System (“VERBİS”) to 31 December 2019, for certain data controllers. As stated in our previous article, data controllers which employ 50 or […]

Turkish Competition Board (“Board”) decided to conduct an investigation to Anka Mobil Tedarik A.Ş. and D-Market Elektronik Hizmetleri ve Ticaret A.Ş. (hepsiburada.com) for violation of article 4 (restrictive trade practices and concerted practices) and article 6 (abuse of dominance) […]

Turkey has extended the periods set forth for the connection agreements in unlicensed electricity investments, renewable energy source areas, and the Renewable Energy Resources Support Mechanism (“YEKDEM”) with the Law Number 7186 Amending Income Tax Law and Certain Other Laws (the “Omnibus Bill”). […]

Turkey’s Energy Market Regulatory Authority (the “EMRA”) has updated the Procedures and Principles Regarding Applications for Pre-License and License Proceedings with its decision published in the Official Gazette dated 6 July 2019 and numbered 30823 (the “Decision”) entered into […]

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 […]

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 […]