Business & Commerce

Amendment to the Regulation on Type Approval and Market Surveillance of Motor Vehicles, Trailers, and Their Components

🇹🇷Türkiye··Regulation·Medium Impact0·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This amendment moves vehicle conformity certificate data into an electronic process. Manufacturers must submit electronic conformity certificates through the Vehicle Registry and Registration System to the Union of Turkish Notaries, using secure electronic signature rules, XML-based data structure, and the standardized vehicle information format set by the notaries’ union. It also sets a 7 July 2026 compliance deadline for software update requirements. From that date, complete M and N category vehicles that do not meet the software update rules cannot be registered, placed on the market, or put into service; O category vehicles that do not comply cannot be manufactured.

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Key Changes

  • Creates an electronic conformity certificate process for vehicle manufacturers
  • Requires secure data exchange using electronic signature rules, XML structure, and a standardized vehicle information format
  • Sets 7 July 2026 as the compliance date for software update requirements affecting M, N, and O category vehicles

Obligations

What this law requires

high

Manufacturers must submit the electronic certificate of conformity to the Union of Turkish Notaries through the Vehicle Registry and Registration System.

vehicle manufacturers
Effective from publication date, 24 June 2026
reporting
high

Manufacturers must secure data exchange with the Vehicle Registry and Registration System in accordance with Law No. 5070 on Electronic Signatures.

vehicle manufacturers
Effective from publication date, 24 June 2026
operational
medium

Manufacturers must structure the basic format and data elements of electronic certificates of conformity according to XML schema structure and principles.

vehicle manufacturers
Effective from publication date, 24 June 2026
operational
high

When transmitting certificate of conformity information electronically as data, manufacturers must use a secure local web connection and the standardized vehicle information format determined by the Union of Turkish Notaries.

vehicle manufacturers
Effective from publication date, 24 June 2026
operational
critical

From 7 July 2026, complete M and N category vehicles manufactured as complete vehicles that do not meet the Regulation’s software update requirements must not be registered, placed on the market, or put into service.

vehicle manufacturersvehicle registrantsmarket operators
From 7 July 2026
prohibition

Affected Parties

vehicle manufacturerstrailer manufacturers+3 more…

Tags

automotive,type approval,vehicle registration