The Cooperative Law was amended on 13 June 2010. For cooperatives having more than 500 shareholders, the appointment of auditors and members of the board of directors shall be decided by secret ballot with open counting during General Assembly meetings. Moreover, the related ministry is empowered to authorize controllers to supervise transactions, accounts and assets of cooperatives, cooperative unions, cooperative centre unions and Turkish National Cooperations Union.

A new Draft Law on Amendments to the Forest Law has been issued. The plan is to grant power to the Forest Management Directorate to rent previously confiscated forest land in order to have a greater contribution to the Turkish economy.

A new Draft Law on Amendments to the Governance and Duties of Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre has been issued. The Draft aims to reorganize the structure and objectives of the Land Registry Directorate, and introduce new obligations, and envisages the establishment of the Land Registry and Cadastre Council and foundation of floating capital businesses.

The Draft Law on Amendments to the Social Securities and General Health Insurance Law has been issued. The current version of the draft aims to provide permanent disability income for employees suffering from a work-related illness.

The Secretariat of Foreign Trade expanded its measures to prevent unfair competition in Turkish exports on 23 May 2010 by the introduction of a new series of communiqués. The measures are the result of an investigation into the questionable presence of the dumping of goods exported from Turkey. The results revealed the insufficiency of present measures to prevent harm to local production due to dumping; therefore, the Secretariat of Foreign Trade has set new figures and additional anti-dumping measures.

The Secretariat of Foreign Trade enacted a Communiqué regarding the Customs Union Agreement between the European Union and Turkey on 6 June 2010. The Communiqué sets out the products that the EU plans to include under tariff quotas as of 1 January 2011 whereby the custom duty between two parties will be suspended.