New E-Commerce Regulation Published

Recent Developments

The amendments to the Law on the Regulation of Electronic Commerce ("Law") that was adopted on 1 July 2022 will enter into force on 1 January 2023. As part of these amendments, the Regulation on Electronic Commerce Intermediary Service Providers and Electronic Commerce Service Providers ("Regulation") was published on the Official Gazette no. 32058 dated 29 December 2022. You may access the Regulation here (in Turkish).

The Regulation aims to detail and clarify the requirements under the Law. In this regard, you may access our detailed legal alert on the amendments to the Law from here.

What's New?

In the Law, obligations are gradually determined according to the net transaction volumes and in line with this, the Regulation also includes provisions applied to (i) all, (ii) medium sized, (iii) large, and (iv) very large electronic commerce intermediary service providers and electronic commerce service providers as defined in the