Mine The Gap: Recent Amendments In The Mining Regulation

Mine the Gap: Recent Amendments in the Mining Regulation

The share of the mining sector in Türkiye's gross domestic product ("GDP") has been showing an increasing trend since 2016, reaching 1.3% in 2021¹. Although mining activities have been governed primarily by the Mining Law since 1985², the escalation after 2015 is due to the amendments made in the regulatory framework.

Following the above, the Communiqué on Support for Labor Costs in Underground Coal Enterprises, published in 2016, was regulated to support the cost increases in "Lignite" and "Hard Coal" underground mining companies. Moreover, with the "Regulation on the Duties, Operating Procedures and Principles of the Turkish Geosciences Data Bank and Core Data Bank" published in 2017, data and samples produced during mineral exploration, research, and production were archived and made available for use, thus facilitating access to the information needed. "Turkey Geosciences Data Bank and Core Data