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Arbitration Councils for Consumer Problems, which play an important role in exercising consumer rights, were expanded and assigned with new tasks for protecting the rights of the consumers. |
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Within this framework, educational programs were prepared and implemented to inform the members of Arbitration Councils for Consumer Problems of new legal amendments and administrative arrangements, including practical points of recent statutes and regulations. |
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| Moreover, the Law for Protection against Unfair Competition came into effect in 1994 and a Competition Board has been established with the objective of effectively taking under control all agreements, takeovers, decisions and synchronized actions that break the rules of competition; preventing monopolizations and abuse of dominant positions; providing equal opportunity for all enterprises in the market; and protecting the rights and interests of the consumer. |
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 By the modification at the law made in 2003, the Board of Consumer Issues Referees have been given the authority to adopt binding resolutions to an extent (792.012 YTL for the year 2007).
The number of the Consumer Courts in Turkey had reached to 22.
Law No. 5464 on the Bank Cards and Credit Cards was passed by TGNA on February 23, 2006.
An article sorting out the contracts concerning house finance has been added to the law.
The common project, initiated by the Ministry of Industry & Trade of Republic of Turkey and the Ministry of Protecting the Consumers, Food, and Agriculture of Government of Federal Republic of Germany, has been completed in 2007. |
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Environmental Protection |
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Pursuing sound environmental policies, Turkey seeks to reinforce the environmental infrastructure, to effectively integrate environmental problems with economic decisions and to fulfill its international commitments on environmental issues. The Ministry of the Environment and Forestry, besides developing basic policies, is also in charge of coordination among related organizations. |
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Turkey signed “UN Convention to Combat Desertification”
on February 14, 1998. |
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