According to the amendment to the Private Hospitals Regulation (published in the Official Gazette dated September 28, 2011 and numbered 29068), the operations of hospitals that employ doctors or staff members that are not doctors who do not have the right to perform their profession or who are obliged to perform a public service, are to be suspended for a temporary period and the Ministry of Health is to be informed.

The Regulation regarding the Promotion Activities of Medicinal Products for Human Use published in the Official Gazette dated August 26, 2011 and numbered 28037) provides for the requirements with respect to promotion activity for the rational use of medicinal products for human use. The promotion activity includes the information provided to doctors, dentists and pharmacists regarding the use of medicinal products and their side effects.

Exclusive of international congresses held in Turkey, officially unauthorized medicinal products for human use may not be advertised to members of the health profession. Promotion may not cause risky situations, or be encouraging or misleading. The promotion activity may not materially provide benefits to the members of health profession. In the case of any violation of promotion activities, certificates granted by the Ministry of Health may be revoked and violating employees may not participate in other certificate programmes even if hired by another company.

The Communiqué Regarding Plastic Materials that Contact Food Products (published in the Official Gazette dated 4 July 2005 and numbered 25865) was amended on 25 July 2010 to determine new limits regarding the content of the substances and stipulates new materials and chemicals for the scope of plastic materials that can be in contact with food products.

The Licensing Regulation for Human Pharmaceuticals was amended on 22 April 2009. Accordingly, the duration of the application review process has now been decreased from 60 to 30 days. Additionally, where the transferor is a natural person or legal entity authorised by a foreign company to obtain a license with respect to and to market a pharmaceutical in Turkey and where the foreign company wishes to revoke such authorisation and grant the same to another natural person or legal entity in Turkey, the relevant license transfer applications before the Ministry of Health may now be filed without the need to submit the related license transfer agreements, provided that the criteria listed in the said regulation are met. Furthermore, the requirement as to obtaining permission from the Ministry of Health for selling human pharmaceuticals in the market has now been abolished.

The Decree on Human Medicine Pricing (published in Official Gazette dated 30 June 2007 and numbered 26568) has been amended (effective as of 17 January 2009) to include a new profit ratio scheme applicable to the stockers of medicines and pharmacists.