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Regulation Amending the Cooperative Project Support Regulation

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

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🇬🇧 English

This Turkish regulation, published on 27 February 2026, significantly revises the 2013 Cooperative Project Support Regulation. It removes several support categories and narrows the scope of eligible expenditures by systematically eliminating references to 'services' (hizmet), limiting support primarily to goods and qualified personnel. The definition of qualified personnel is updated to require at least a bachelor's degree and specific conditions listed in the Guide. The number of evaluation committee members is reduced from five to four in multiple articles. Procurement rules are tightened so that goods purchases must be carried out through contracts with contractors.

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Key Changes

  • Removed subparagraph (e) and revised definition of 'qualified personnel' in Article 4 to require at least bachelor's degree plus conditions in the Guide
  • Abolished subparagraphs (b), (c) and (d) of Article 9; revised (i) to support only qualified personnel employment for projects under subparagraph (a)
  • Removed 'and services' references from Articles 10, 12, 13, 25, 26, 27 and 29, limiting eligible costs to goods only

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Obligations

What this law requires

high

Qualified personnel employed under cooperative project support must hold at least a bachelor's degree and meet specific qualifications and conditions listed in the Guide (Kılavuz)

Cooperatives receiving grant support
operational
high

Remove support for expenditure categories previously listed in Article 9(1)(b), (c), and (d) of the 2013 Regulation; support limited to qualified personnel employment only

Ministry of Trade (administering grant support)
prohibition
high

Eliminate 'services' (hizmet) from eligible expenditure categories across Articles 10, 12, 25, 26, and 27; support limited to goods and qualified personnel

Ministry of Trade and cooperatives receiving support
prohibition
high

Goods purchases must be executed through contracts between cooperatives and contractors

Cooperatives receiving grant support
operational
medium

Reduce evaluation committee membership from five to four members in Articles 16, 29, and 30

Ministry of Trade
operational

Affected Parties

Agricultural cooperativesService cooperatives+3 more…

Tags

cooperatives,project support,grant regulation