Apart from an economic slow-down, one can say that 2018 has been productive and looked promising for Turkey from a privacy perspective. We have seen considerable efforts and attempts from the data protection authority, as it has been active in meeting with the practitioners, academics, organizing trainings and seminars, and issuing new guidelines, and regulations. We have seen more data breach decisions rendered by the DPA and these shed a light to the practice and claims…
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Dicle Doğan and Fatma Sevde Tan, Gun + Partners
Article 10 of the Regulation on Promotional Activities of Medicinal Products for Human Use states that the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency shall issue a certificate of competence to the following individuals:
Graduates of universities that educate product promotion representatives, upon submission of their diploma to the agency.
Graduates from a school of higher education who have succeeded in a specified…
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Mediation has become a must in commercial receivables actions and to this end some provisions of Turkish Commercial Code (“TCC”) and Code of Mediation in Civil Disputes have been amended within the scope of Code of Commencement of Execution Proceedings in Monetary Receivables Arising from Subscription Agreements (the “Code”) which became effective by being published in Official Gazette dated 19 December 2018 and numbered 30630. In this regard;
By incorporating Article…
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It is no secret that the Turkish economy has been suffering from a few problems. As is usually the case for all economies under distress, various Turkish businesses have been in dire straits. The depreciation in Turkish lira and inflation, together with other factors, put a lot of pressure on the Turkish economy.
Various companies in Turkey started to have problems in making their payments in due time. A number of these companies applied for the procedure of composition with…
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The Omnibus Act Amending Some Laws and Decree-Laws related to Health (“the Act”) is published on the Official Gazette dated 5 December 2018 and numbered 30616.
Article 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Act amended the Law on Commercial Pharmaceutical Warehouses and Shops that Sell Poisonous Chemical Substances Used in Arts and Agriculture (“Law on Warehouses”) numbered 984, Article 8 of the Act amended the Pharmaceuticals and Medical Preparations Law numbered 1262 and Article numbered 31…
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Insurance market has been heavily relying on its conventional tools of risk assessment. This is now under the transformative and disruptive impact of technology. In particular, big data -i.e. large volumes of data sets that are hard to process using traditional data processing methods (“Big Data”) – are claimed to have the potential to replace the conventional tools of risk assessment by their more efficacious equivalents.
The provisions of insurance under Turkish Commercial…
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