The Regulation on Market Surveillance and Inspection of Products Made Available to the Market Through the Means of Electronic Communication Tools (“Regulation”) was published on the Official Gazette on October 30, 2024.

In recent years, legal systems worldwide have struggled to keep the pace with the rapid evolution of digital markets. Traditional laws have become inadequate to address the unprecedented scale and speed of digital businesses, the dominance of a few major players, and cross-border nature of digital transactions.

The Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698 (“PDPL”) aims to protect privacy, ensure data security and prevent unlimited and indiscriminate collection of personal data, unauthorised access, disclosure or violation of personal rights as a result of misuse or violation. The failure to comply with the rules set forth under PDPL may result in administrative fines, which are revised each year, and also in criminal sanctions.

The Personal Data Protection Authority (“Authority”) published the Public Announcement on the Standard Contract Notification Module (“Public Announcement”) on 25/10/2024.

Tasarruf Tedbirleri ile İlgili 2024/7 Sayılı Cumhurbaşkanlığı Genelgesi (“Genelge”) 17 Mayıs 2024 tarihinde 32549 sayılı Resmî Gazete’de yayınlanmıştır ve 17 Mayıs 2024 (“Yürürlük Tarihi”) tarihinde yürürlüğe girmiştir. Genelge ile, kamu hizmetleri ve yatırım projelerinin bütçe sınırları içinde, tasarruf anlayışı ile yürütülmesi amaçlanmıştır.

The Data Protection Board (“Board”) issued its guideline with respect to data privacy in mobile applications (“Guidelines”). Under the Guidelines, the Board underlined the importance of the protection of the personal data of data subjects in mobile applications used in smart devices.

New amendments made to the Regulation on Insurance and Reinsurance Brokers are published on 18.01.2024. The amendments introduced the Insurance and Private Pension Supervisory and Audit Authority and Board into the lexicology of the regulation. Other amendments may be summarized as follows:

The new regulation which determines the procedures and principles regarding immunity from or reduction for the fines specified in Article 16 of the Law on the Protection of Competition (“Law”) to be imposed on enterprises and enterprise managers and employees who actively cooperate with the Competition Authority for the purpose of detecting cartels which are prohibited under Article 4 of the Law is now published.

Rekabetin Korunması Hakkında Kanun’un (“Kanun”) 4. maddesinde yasaklanmış olan kartellerin ortaya çıkarılması amacıyla Rekabet Kurumuyla aktif iş birliği yapan teşebbüsler ile teşebbüs yöneticileri ve çalışanlarına, Kanun’un 16. maddesinde belirtilen para cezalarının verilmemesine veya verilecek cezalarda indirim yapılmasına ilişkin usul ve esasları düzenleyen yeni yönetmelik 16.12.2023 tarihinde yayınlanarak yürürlüğe girdi.

Bilindiği üzere dağıtım sistemi üyelerinin nihai alıcılara yapacakları aktif ve pasif satışlar sağlayıcılar tarafından yasaklanamamaktadır. İnternet ve benzeri yollarla yapılan satışlar genellikle pasif satış olarak nitelendirilmektedir.