With the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages published in the Official Gazette dated 4 January 2020 and numbered 30998, critical changes were made on the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages ("Regulation"). According to the Regulation, all service providers engaging in the delivery of electronic commercial messages are obliged to be registered with the Centralized Commercial Message Management System ("IYS") as well as to upload the consents of the recipients to IYS.
 

The deadline for the service providers to upload the e-commercial message consents to IYS was 31 May 2020. However, the Ministry of Commerce ("Ministry") has postponed the deadline to 31 August 2020 based on its authority to do so for a period of 3 months.

Now, with the Regulation Amending the Regulation on Commercial Communication and Commercial Electronic Messages published in the Official Gazette dated 28 August 2020 and numbered 31227 the deadline for the service providers to upload the consents of the recipients for e-commercial messages to IYS has been changed as 1 December 2020. Also, the recipients should check their consents uploaded to IYS until 16 January 2021.

Furthermore, the Ministry has been authorized to postpone the relevant dates for an additional 6 months by taking into account the qualifications of the service providers as well as the number of the recipient consents.

Should you require further information or guidance regarding the above, please do not hesitate to contact us.

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Güner Law Office