FREE ZONES GOVERNING REGULATION

(Published in the Official Gazette No. 21520, dated March 10, 1993)

 

PART ONE

 

General Provisions

 

SECTION ONE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)   Objectives, Scope, Legal Basis, Abbreviations and Definitions

 

ARTICLE 1- Objectives

ARTICLE 2- Scope

ARTICLE 3- Legal Basis

ARTICLE 4- Abbreviations and Definitions

 

 

 

PART TWO

 

Zone Directorates and the Organization of the Zone

 

SECTION ONE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Zone Directorates, Boundaries of the Zone, Infrastructure and Superstructure and Their Protection

 

ARTICLE 5- Principles Concerning the Establishment, Function, Powers and Operation of the Zone Directorate

ARTICLE 6- Boundaries of the Zone

ARTICLE 7- Infrastructural Facilities

ARTICLE 8- Superstructural Facilities

ARTICLE 9- Protection of Buildings and Facilities

 

 

SECTION TWO

bullet.gif (995 bytes)   Fields of Activity, Operation Licences, Entry Permits and Service Cards

 

ARTICLE 10- Fields of Activity in the Zone

ARTICLE 11- Granting of Operation Licences

ARTICLE 12- Keeping of Industrial and Commercial Registers

ARTICLE 13- Entry Permits And Service Cards

ARTICLE 14- Annulment of Operation Licenses

ARTICLE 15- Annulment of Entry Permits, Special Entry Permits and Service Cards

 

 

SECTION THREE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Maintaining Order and Security in the Zone And Working Conditions

 

ARTICLE 16- Security

ARTICLE 17- Working Conditions

ARTICLE 18- Work Permits for Foreigners

ARTICLE 19- Residence Permit / Night Work Permit

ARTICLE 20- Working Hours and Control of Entries and Exits

ARTICLE 21- Social Security and Social Welfare Principles

ARTICLE 22- Compenent Authority for Communal Services

ARTICLE 23- Keeping Books And Records

 

 

SECTION FOUR

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    The Operator or the Zone Founder and Operator

 

ARTICLE 24- The Operating or Establishment and Operating Contracts with the Operator or the Z.F.O.

ARTICLE 25- Financial, Administrative and Service Obligations of the Operator or the Z.F.O.

ARTICLE 26- The Powers and Functions of the Operator or the Z.F.O.

ARTICLE 27- Relations with Users

 

 

SECTION FIVE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Custom Duty and Tax Exemptions And Incentives

 

ARTICLE 28- Custom Duty Exemptions

ARTICLE 29- Tax Exemptions and Other Incentives

 

 

PART THREE

 

Goods in The Zone, Rent And Service Contracts and Tariffs

 

SECTION ONE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Exported and Imported Goods and Transit Goods Haulage

 

ARTICLE 30- Exported Goods

ARTICLE 31- Imported Goods and Transit / Trans-shipped Goods Haulage

 

 

SECTION TWO

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Movement of Goods in and out of the Zone

 

ARTICLE 32- Goods Prohibited in the Zone

ARTICLE 33- The Movement of Goods in and out of the Zone

ARTICLE 34- Flow of Goods Between the Zone and Other Destinations

ARTICLE 35- Sale or Transfer of Goods

ARTICLE 36- Responsibility for Goods in the Zone

ARTICLE 37- Goods which are Harmful to Keep and Goods that Must Be Destroyed

ARTICLE 38- Abondoned and Scattered Goods

ARTICLE 39- Damaged Goods

 

 

 

PART FOUR

 

Free Zones Establishment and Development Fund, Rent and Service Contracts

 

SECTION ONE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Free Zones Establishment and Development Fund

 

ARTICLE 40- Fund Account

ARTICLE 41- Fund Revenues

ARTICLE 42- Collection of Fund Revenues and Reimbursements

ARTICLE 43- Pursuit of Fund Receivables, Penalties and Prescription

ARTICLE 44- Fund Expenditures

ARTICLE 45- Principles of Expenditures

 

 

SECTION TWO

bullet.gif (995 bytes)    Rent and Service Contracts

 

ARTICLE 46- Matters That Should be Specified in Rent Contracts

 

 

 

PART FİVE

 

   Foreign Exchange, Banking, Insurance and Other Services  

 

SECTION ONE

bullet.gif (995 bytes)   Foreign Exchange, Banking and Insurance Services

 

ARTICLE 47- Foreign Exchange

ARTICLE 48- Banking and Insurance Services

 

 

 

SECTION TWO

bullet.gif (995 bytes)   Loading and Unloading Services and Other Services

 

ARTICLE 49- Loading and Unloading Services

ARTICLE 50- Other Services

 

 

 

PART SIX

 

bullet.gif (995 bytes)   Miscellanneous Provisions

 

ARTICLE 51- Objections and Complaints

ARTICLE 52- Closure of Workplaces and Liquidation

ARTICLE 53- Settlement of Disputes by Reconciliation

ARTICLE 54- Time Extension

ARTICLE 55- Arrangement of Places Incorporated in the Zone

ARTICLE 56- Information Services

ARTICLE 57- Zones Where There is no Operator or Z.F.O.

ARTICLE 58- Waiting Periods and Bonds

ARTICLE 59- Repealed Regulations

Interim ARTICLE 1

Interim ARTICLE 2

Interim ARTICLE 3           

ARTICLE 60- Entry info Effect

ARTICLE 61- Execution

 

 

LEGISLATION CONCERNING THE AMENDMENT IN

SOME ARTICLES OF THE TURKISH FREE ZONES

LEGISLATION

 

 

(Official Journal dated March 27, 2001 and numbered 24355)