PRESS RELEASE REGARDING THE POSTPONEMENT OF THE DEADLINES RELATED TO THE COMMERCIAL ELECTRONIC MESSAGE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (in Turkish “İYS”)
As per the very recent emerging press release dated 30 November 2020 made by the Ministry of Commerce of the Republic of Turkey (“Ministry”), it has been announced that the deadlines for registration and uploading current approvals provided by service providers to the Commercial Electronic Message Management System (in Turkish “İYS”) has been postponed.
Considering the negative effects of the new type of Coronavirus (COVID-19) epidemic which affects the whole world and which is causing some disruptions in business processes, the Ministry of Commerce has decided to postpone once again the deadlines as below.
In this respect;
- The new deadline to upload the consents for service providers having more than 150,000 commercial electronic message consents is 31 December 2020. The new deadline for the recipients to check those consents has been postponed to 15 February 2021.
- The new deadline to upload the consents for service providers having commercial electronic message consents of 150,000 or up to an amount of 150,000 is 31 May 2021. The new deadline for these approvals to be checked by the consent giving individuals has been postponed to 15 July 2021.
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