The Regulation on the Amendment of the Electricity Market Import and Export Regulation was published in the Official Gazette No. 31464 dated April 24, 2021.
While the relevant legislation was previously counted as laws, regulations, licenses, communiqués, circulars and Board decisions in the regulation, the presidential decree and president's decision were added to the legislation regarding the amendment. In the regulation, article 5/c, which explains that generation companies can carry out electrical energy export activities, has been amended as that generation licensed legal entities can carry out electrical energy export activities in a way that does not exceed the total installed power in the enterprise. In the Regulation, a document regarding the payment of the license amendment fee has been added to the documents that must be submitted to the institution in the license amendment applications made in order to carry out the import activity in non-synchronous connections. In the regulation on the case that a legal entity engaged in import and / or export activities in connections other than synchronous parallel connections wishes to terminate the import and / or export activity it carries on under its license before its due date, the obligation to apply at least four months before the termination date has been removed.
It was stated that the amendments brought with the said regulation will come into force as of April 24, 2021, the date of publication, and the provisions of this regulation will be executed by the President of the Energy Market Regulatory Authority.