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The World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”) has announced that it has received the United Arab Emirates’ accession document to the Protocol Relating to the Madrid Agreement Concerning the International Registration of Marks (“Madrid Protocol”). Accordingly, the United Arab Emirates […]

Regulation Amending the Regulation regarding the Procedures and Principles on Implementation of the Law on the Electronic Signature (“Amendment Regulation”) issued by the Information and Technologies Authority (“ICTA”) has been published on 15 October 2021, in Official Gazette numbered […]

Personal Data Protection Authority has published guidelines (“Guidelines”) regulating the rights of the data subjects regarding the request to be forgotten, specific to search engines. The Guidelines, published by the Personal Data Protection Board (“Board”) with the aim of […]

Amendment Regulation on Electricity Market Licensing Regulation (“Amendment Regulation“) has been published in the Official Gazette dated 16 October 2021 and numbered 31630, amending various matters including the establishment of electronic permit system and usage of this online system, […]

The Regulation Amending the Regulation on Associations (“Amendment Regulation”) was published in Official Gazette dated 21 October 2021 and numbered 31635. The regulation introduced provisions allowing the general assembly and board of directors’ meetings to be held by electronical […]

Article 61 of Law numbered 7338 on Amendments to Tax Procedure Law and Certain Laws (“Omnibus Bill”) is published in Official Gazette dated 26 October 2021 and numbered 31640, amended Law numbered 7194 on Amendment of Digital Services Tax, […]

Article 17 and 18 of Law numbered 7338 on Amendments to Tax Procedure Law and Certain Laws (“Omnibus Bill”) is published in Official Gazette dated 26 October 2021 and numbered 31640, introduced amendments to the tax inspection location and […]

With article 3 of Law numbered 7338 on Amendments to Tax Procedure Law and Certain Laws (“Omnibus Bill”), published in Official Gazette dated 26 October 2021 and numbered 31640, duplicated article 20/C was introduced to Income Tax Law numbered […]

Law numbered 7338 on Amendments to Tax Procedure Law and Certain Laws (“Omnibus Bill”) is published in Official Gazette dated 26 October 2021 and numbered 31640, amending and introducing new regulations for the tax law. Article 2 of the […]

With the introduction of the Industrial Property Law (“IPL”), the “proof of use” practice, which is applied in EUIPO and many countries, came into force in trademark opposition cases. In this article, we discuss how it works in Turkey. […]