Draft Regulation on Deleting, Disposal and Anonymization of Personal Data Has Been Published
As per the Law on Protection of Personal Data (“Law”) numbered 6698, data controllers have an obligation to delete, dispose or anonymize personal data if the purposes of processing are no longer existing pursuant to the Article 7 of the Law. The principles and procedures with respect to this will be set out by a regulation as per the Law. Within the scope explained above, a draft Regulation on Deleting, Disposal and Anonymization of Personal Data (“Regulation”) has been published by the Personal Data Protection Agency (“Agency”).[1] The Regulation determines the procedures and principles with regards to deleting, disposal and anonymization of
Amendments to the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation
An Environmental Impact Assessment (“EIA”) Report and a project presentation file should be prepared for investments/projects that may cause damage to the environment as per the Law on Environment numbered 2872. The Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation (“EIA Regulation”) of 25.11.2014 regulates the administrative and technical terms and procedures that should be complied with during this procedure. The Amending Regulation to the EIA Regulation (“Amending Regulation”), which entered into effect on 27 May 2017 introduced significant revisions and amendments to the EIA Regulation. Upon review of this Amending Regulation, it is understood that the scope of projects that EIA procedure will be applied
Amendments on the Commercial Advertising and Unfair Commercial Practices Regulation
Amendments were made on the Commercial Advertising and Unfair Commercial Practices Regulation (“Regulation”) which were published in the Official Gazette of 4 January 2017 and numbered 29938. The Regulation was prepared in 2015 for the following purposes pursuant to the Law on the Protection of Consumers numbered 6502:To define the principles that should be adhered by the advertisers, advertising agencies, medium corporations and all persons, establishments and corporations related to advertising, To define the procedures of review that will be undertaken within the scope of these principles, Protecting the consumers against the unfair commercial practices.All kinds of commercial advertising and