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ICC Force Majeure and Hardship Clauses 2020 in the Wake of COVID-19

To respond the struggles experienced by the businesses in terms of contractual liabilities in the wake of COVID-19, International Chambers of Commerce (“ICC”) has updated the 2003 version of its force majeure and hardship clauses. With the recent update dated March 25, 2020, ICC aimed at bringing an equivalence for the parties’ legitimate expectations of performance that impinged due to COVID-19 outbreak.

COVID-19 Conditions Necessitating A Compliance Check for Companies Regarding Distance Contracts under Turkish Laws

Today, the Covid-19 outbreak has required large volume of process in a short period of time for both companies and individuals. Unfortunately, not by choice, some of the legacies are left behind. As a result of the overall embraced isolation approach, individuals are avoiding the public places, and most of the stores are shut down except the ones required for essential needs.

Data Protection Updates on the Use of Contact Tracing in Times of COVID-19

Due to the COVID-19 outbreak and its significant impacts in our daily lives, extremely intrusive data processing activities have been negotiated and taken into place by governments, public institutions, and organizations. In this respect, due to the measures taken in order to mitigate the risk regarding pandemic, many governments have decided to use geolocation tools to determine possibly infected ones by checking the routes that have been used by infected people.

Corona Outbreak: Extensions for Filings by Turkish Competition Authority

Turkish Competition Authority (“Authority”) on April 17, 2020 published an announcement regarding the extension of the deadlines for inquisitions, researches and investigations carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic under the Law on the Protection of Competition (“Law No. 4054”) in order to not to cause any detriment to respective parties’ rights.

Social Distancing and the Use of Electronic Signatures under Turkish Law

As a precaution against the rapid spread of the global pandemic, many of the companies switched to remote working strategies and started to apply social distance rules to mitigate the effect of the Covid-19. With the increase in the number of people working remotely, companies and organizations will undoubtedly have to think about how to execute documents and contracts, along with the measures taken against the Covid-19.

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