The ‘Stock Market Law’ has been published in the Official Gazette, which also includes the power to lend 200,000 million liras to the Treasury.

After its publication in the Official Gazette, the Reform Law to the Electricity Market Law and Some Laws and Decree Law No. 375 entered into force.
With the law, a transitory article was added to the Law for the Regulation of Public Finance and Debt Management.

Consequently, 200 billion lire was added to the borrowing authority of the Ministry of Finance. Thus, the borrowing authority from 293 billion lira increased to 493 billion lira.
With the law, the terms of the contracts with a duration of less than 49 years, which were signed as a result of the privatization of some ports belonging to the Turkish Maritime Enterprises Corporation and the General Directorate of State Railways of the Republic, were extended. from Turkey. to 49 years.

In order to sign an additional contract, the operating companies must have fully complied with all their economic obligations derived from the contract that gives rise to the right of exploitation and waive legal actions initiated by reason of the contract that gives rise to the right of exploitation.
In addition to the investment requirement in the privatization contracts, the operating companies must invest 10 percent of the additional value of the contract in port activities and make these investments within 5 years from the date of signing the additional contracts. At the end of the period, it will be obligatory for the operating companies to submit the report proving that the investment has been made and the information and documents proving this situation to the Turkish Maritime Enterprises Corporation or the General Directorate of State Railways, according to corresponds. your interest

If in the audit carried out by the corresponding institution it is determined that the investment obligation in question has not been fulfilled, the additional contract will be terminated. In this case, no refund will be made to the operating company, including fees paid in accordance with the additional contract.
The rationale for the article was as follows:

“It is aimed at port investors making the necessary investments on time, to protect the competitiveness of our country in parallel with the logistics and tourism sector, and thus ensure the public interest. With the exception of the extension of the periods of right to operate in the main contracts, only the prices of the additional contracts without changes; Additional agreements will be signed in a fair, transparent, controllable and auditable manner, determined under the same conditions for all investors, and the extensions will enter into force.”

Contribution to public university health service providers

BOTAŞ’s debts consisting of all kinds of unpaid taxes, funds and shares, and administrative fines, late fees and late interest will be written off against Treasury accounts receivable for the start-up fee.

Night work of workers in oil prospecting, exploration and drilling activities

With the reform made in the Labor Law, a regulation is made to allow workers to work at night in exploration, exploration and drilling activities in the oil sector.

In order to guarantee that public university health service providers do not experience financial difficulties in the provision of the service and in terms of the sustainability of health services, a regulation is prepared to contribute to the financial sufficiency of these service providers. of health and to avoid any monetary cuts in the current year as a result of the exams of previous years.

Foreigners who obtained a residence permit in Turkey before January 1, 2013, who are not insured under the legislation of a foreign country; such as general health insurance premiums, late penalty and late payment surcharge for citizens who are not entitled to benefit from health insurance in another country, people who benefit from protection, care and rehabilitation services free of charge in accordance with the provisions of the Social Services Code and Child Protection Agency Law, and Turkish citizens who do not have parents and children under 18 years of age. Collection of all secondary accounts receivable will be waived.

Definition of “gatherer” and “forager”

In line with the goals included in the National Energy Efficiency Action Plan, with the reform carried out in the Electricity Market Law, the definitions of “collectors” and “collectors” were made.
Consequently, “collector” shall be understood as “the legal person holding a collector’s license or a supply license that has entered into a contract with one or more users of the network to carry out collection activities in the electricity market on behalf of of such network users”; “collect”, on the other hand, shall mean “the market activity carried out by the Collector in the field of combining the consumption or production of one or more users of the network”.
The aggregator will be authorized by network users by agreement. Network users may not authorize legal entities that have a contracted supply license to supply energy as collectors.
The Collector will manage the consumption or production programs of the contracted users, carry out market operations related to the purchase and sale of energy or electrical power on behalf of the users in question, and may participate in the processes of contracting complementary services. .
The collection activity can be carried out by legal entities that hold a collector’s license or a supply license.

Support for members of public servant unions

With the Law, once the mandate of the Investigative Commission of Emergency Procedures has expired, the determination of the procedures and principles related to the implementation with the institutions and organizations in charge of carrying out the work and procedures related to the functions of the Commission is established. . Support will be given by collective agreement to public officials affiliated with public servants unions to whom the monthly or salary membership fee is discounted, in the months of January, April, July and October, in the amount that results from multiplying the indicator 750 for his monthly or salary for the monthly coefficient of the official. In the months of January, April, July and October, monthly or together with their salary, a collective bargaining agreement bonus is granted for the amount determined in the collective bargaining agreement to public servants affiliated with unions of public servants that they have registered as affiliates. more than 2 percent of the public servants who work in the branch of service in which they are established, and from whom the monthly quota or salary of their affiliations is deducted.
The collective agreement bonus to be paid to public officials will be paid in the amount resulting from multiplying indicator number 2119 by the monthly coefficient of the official during the term of the Collective Agreement VI in force for the years 2022 and 2023 in Financial Matters and Social Rights of Public Servants and their Service Branches.

Structuring of past TEDAŞ debts

Due to accounts receivable from Turkish Electricity Distribution Corporation (TEDAŞ) derived from electricity consumption and transferred to TEDAŞ during the privatization transfer process, the actual amount of accounts receivable does not exceed 2 thousand Turkish liras to the effective date of this article, and the Republic of Turkey Identity Number, Tax Identification Number cannot be determined Accounts receivable related to subscriptions that cannot be reached, terminated, abandoned from the business register, and settled will be waived. The possibility of restructuring the debts of subscribers outside this area with TEDAŞ derived from past electricity consumption was introduced.
With the possibility of splitting these credits, it is intended to ensure the collection of credits derived from unpaid electricity consumption, extending to years.
As of October 1, 2021, subscribers who had unpaid and unstructured debt and could not request restructuring as of the effective date of this regulation, were included in the scope of the regulation.