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A significant amendment
2
(
Law ) as to on-site inspections,
providing legal ground for the already-existing implementation of
the Turkish Competition Authority
(
TCA ), was introduced on June 24,
2020. Accordingly, the TCA s legal authority is now regulated
in a more detailed and explicit way allowing the case officers of
the TCA to examine and obtain copies of the files, any information
and document stored in physical and electronic media as well as
information systems of the undertakings and the associations of
undertakings during the on-site inspections. Following the
amendment, the TCA has published the Guideline on Examination of
Digital Data During On-Site Inspections
3 dated October
Introduction
The Regulation on the Processing of Personal Data and Protection
of Privacy in the Electronic Communication Sector
(“
Regulation”) has been published in
the Official Gazette dated 4 December 2020 numbered 31324.
The general aim of the Regulation seems to be to ensure the
protection and privacy of personal data in the communications
sector and the regulation of procedures and principles regarding
operators relevant data protection obligations arising from
the Electronic Communication Law
(“
ECL”) numbered 5809 and the Personal
Data Protection Law (“
DPL”) numbered
6698.
The Regulation has been prepared in accordance with the general
personal data protection rules established in the ECL and the DPL;