NEWSLETTER-2020-metin

443 MISCELLANEOUS Services Provided by Coastal Facilities and Applicable Tariffs* Att. Ecem Çetinyılmaz Introduction On May 16, 2020, the Communiqué on Service Items Provided at Coastal Facilities and Determination and Implementation of Minimum and Maximum Fees of Such Service Items (“Communiqué”) entered into force through publication in the Official Gazetted dated the same and numbered 31129 by the Republic of Turkey Ministry of Transport and Infrastructure (“Ministry”). The purpose of the Communiqué is to regulate the issues regard- ing the determination and implementation of service items provided at coastal facilities operated for commercial cargo and/or passenger transportation, construction, renovation and maintenance-repairs of ships and sea vessels and ship recycling activities, as well as the minimum and maximum fees of such service items, through obtaining permission of the Ministry. The Communiqué covers those provid- ing services at coastal facilities, as well as mooring operations at the mooring sites determined by the Ministry’s General Directorate of Maritime Affairs (“Administration”). Under the Communiqué, coastal facilities are defined as the ports, cruise ports, yacht ports, passenger terminals, docks, wharfs, berthing places, fuel oil or liquefied gas pipeline buoys or platforms, float fa- cilities, fish farms, fishermen’s shelters, ship recycling facilities, ship- yards, facilities such as boat building and boat yard and other perma- nent facilities adjacent thereto, other infrastructure or superstructure facilities for sea transportation, pontoons, lanterns, groins, bulkhead discharge lines, submarine cables and open sea platforms, mooring sites and similar structures that can be constructed on the areas gained * Article of September, 2020