On 23 January 2020, Transparency International announced the much-awaited results of the 2019 Corruption Perceptions Index (the “CPI 2019”), which reflects the perception of country experts, non-governmental organisations and representatives of the business world of corruption in public sector. The CPI 2019 scores 180 countries and territories on a scale from 0 (highly corrupt) to 100 (very clean).
The results, unfortunately, did not come as too much of a surprise for Turkey…
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As of 1 January 2019, the scope of electronic notification was expanded to include several institutions, including all public institutions and organisations, lawyers, notaries, experts and mediators following amendments to the Notification Law (7201). The Post and Telegraph Organisation has been assigned the operation of electronic notification transactions through the National Electronic Notification System. Further, the Regulation on Notification via Electronic…
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Özge Atılgan Karakulak and Dicle Doğan, Gun + Partners
On 7 January 2020, the Social Security Institution (SSI) published an announcement (Turkish language) on the procurement of pharmaceuticals from abroad by Ibn-i Sina Health and Social Security Centre (Ibn-i Sina). The announcement required that all bids from manufacturers, authorised firms, intermediary firms and pharmaceutical warehouses for the supply of certain specified pharmaceuticals or their generics to Ibn-i Sina…
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Dicle Doğan and Fatma Sevde Tan, Gun + Partners
On 8 January 2020, a Regulation amending the Regulation on Licensing of Human Medicinal Products (Turkish language) was published in Official Gazette (No 31002). Those amendments entered into force the same day.
The new Regulation adds an additional paragraph to Article 2 of the Regulation on Licensing of Human Medicinal Products (Licensing Regulation). With the additional paragraph, individual allergen products and skin tests…
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Dicle Doğan and Fatma Sevde Tan, Gun + Partners
The EU Medical Devices Regulations ((EU) 2017/745) (MDR) will become applicable on 26 May 2020. As a non-EU country, the Turkish Medicines and Medical Devices Agency published an announcement (Turkish language) on 30 December 2019 advising that harmonisation of Turkish regulations with the new rules is to continue.
The announcement notes that the MDR sets new principles for manufacturers, importers and distributors, and new…
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