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Regulation Regarding Organized Industrial Zones Implementation Regulation (the “New Regulation”), published on the Official Gazette dated 16.04.2020 and numbered 31101, brings important and long-awaited amendments to Organized Industrial Zones Implementation Regulation (the “Regulation”) which was published on the Official Gazette dated 02.02.2019 and numbered 30674. The New Regulation covers several issues frequently asked and raised […]
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With our previous paper which can be reached at (https://www.kesikli.com/repercussions-on-events-of-force-majeure-and-impossibility/, we explained the repercussions on COVID-19 outbreak in the context of “force majeure” and “impossibility” concepts. These concepts, as we explained in the said paper, refer to the situations where the performance is either temporarily or permanently impossible. It might be that, however, the effects […]
COVID-19 Infection: Is it a Work Accident? COVID-19 and Infectious Diseases Under Turkish Law Infectious diseases are defined under Infectious Diseases Regulation dated 30.05.2007. Although COVID-19 is not included within the list annexed to the Regulation categorizing infectious diseases, MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome) and SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome) which are coronavirus related diseases […]
Energy Market Regulatory Authority’s (“EMRA”) decision numbered 9276 and dated 02.04.2020 has been published on the Official Gazette numbered 31089 ad dated 04.04.2020. EMRA declares COVID-19 pandemic, which continues its adverse effects across the world and Turkey, as a force majeure event within the scope of Electricity Market License Regulation (“License Regulation”) Article 35 and […]
Circular No. 2020/5 (“Circular”) regarding COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on public procurements has been published on the Official Gazette numbered 31087 and dated 02.04.2020. Circular provides the following regulations within the scope of Public Procurement Law No. 4734 (“Public Procurement Law”) in order to prevent the pandemic and reduce its adverse effects across the country: Within […]
The Law No. 7194 on Digital Service Tax and the Amendment of Certain Laws and Law Decree No. 375 (the “Law”) which was published on Official Gazette dated December 7, 2019 and No. 30971 and entered into force on 1 March 2020, introduces digital service tax on revenues derived from certain digital services provided in […]
COVID-19 Pandemic’s Impact on Employment Contracts Having spread to most of the countries and identified as a pandemic by the World Health Organization, COVID-19 is substantially affecting the global markets as well as Turkey. Extraordinary measures have been taken not only by governments and authorities but also by the private companies. Some of employers are […]
Repercussions on Events of Force Majeure And Impossibility Special Focus on the New Coronavirus: NCOVID-19 Ncovid-19 (novel coronavirus or Wuhan virus) has been classified as a pandemic by the World Health Organisation on 11.03.2020.[1] However, even before that official characterisation, the virus outbreak was affecting the normal course of things in a number of countries […]
Introduction Regulation Regarding Acceptance of Electricity Production and Storage Plants (“Regulation”) has been prepared by the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources (“Ministry”) and published on the Official Gazette dated 19.02.2020 and numbered 31044. The Regulation abolishes the Regulation on Acceptance of Electricity Generation Plants (“Former Regulation”) published on the Official Gazette dated 06.11.2015 and […]