Turkey's Ministry of Economy has updated secondary legislation to increase the lower and upper limits for administrative fines which are applied for supplying and distributing unsafe products to the market. The revised thresholds involve significant increases particularly for suppliers or distributors of products which are unsafe, or breach technical legislation.
The administrative fines are applied for breaches of the Law on Preparing and Implementing Technical Legislation for Goods numbered 4703. The new limits are introduced by The Communiqué Amending the Communiqué on Safety and Audit of Goods numbered 2017/28 in respect of Announcement of the new Values of Administrative Fines Envisaged by the Law on Preparation and Implementation of Technical Legislation regarding Goods numbered 4703 ("Communiqué"). The Communiqué was published in Official Gazette number 30130 on 21 July 2017, entering into effect on 1 July 2017.
The new limits for administrative fines and relevant percentage increases are as follows:
| Act | Lower Limit | Upper Limit |
| Products supplied to the market which do not comply with technical regulations | 4,000 TL (+13%) |
50,000 TL (+465%) |
| Producers which supply unsafe products to the market | 19,000 TL (+7%) |
250,000 TL (+464%) |
| Producers which fail to provide mandatory information and take necessary precautions | 4,000 TL (+13%) |
75,000 TL (+747%) |
| Producers which fail to meet their obligations to retain mandatory documentation | 4,000 TL (+13%) |
25,000 TL (+182%) |
| Distributors which supply products to the market which are unsafe to their best knowledge | 2,000 TL (+13%) |
40,000 TL (+804%) |
| Undue use of the compliance symbol or documents delivered due to compliance evaluations | 10,000 TL (+13%) |
75,000 TL (+228%) |
| Assessment institutions or approved institutions which render assessment services contrary to legislative requirements | 46,000 TL (+3%) |
115,000 TL (+3%) |
| Assessment institutions or approved institutions which fail to maintain information, recordings or documents in compliance with legislation and fail to deliver information upon request | 10,000 TL (+13%) |
25,000 TL (+12%) |
Please see this link for full text of the Communiqué (only available in Turkish).
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