Announcement

Dear Member,

Pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 10, titled "Notification of Changes", of Law No. 5174 on The Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Türkiye and Chambers and Commodity Exchanges , it is stipulated that members whose tax liability has been found to be deregistered, whose address or status cannot be determined since two years before the current year, or who have not fulfilled their dues obligations within this period, shall be removed from the professional groups and voter lists and their dues accruals shall be stopped by decision of the Chamber's Board of Directors.

In parallel with this provision, Article 14 of the Chamber Procedures Regulation states that Chambers are obliged to update their member records every year in January. Accordingly, the memberships of members whose tax liability has been deregistered, whose address and status cannot be determined from the first day of January of the second year preceding the current year until the update date, or who have not paid the dues debts accrued during this period, are suspended by decision of the Board of Directors. However, this procedure is not applied to members who have paid at least one instalment each of the annual and additional dues within the same period.

Suspension of membership covers the removal of the relevant members from the professional groups and voter lists and the stopping of their dues accruals.

On the other hand, the memberships of members whose membership has been suspended due to dues debts and who pay all their debts, including dues for the periods of suspension, are reactivated by decision of the Board of Directors. In this case, the members are re-included in the professional groups and voter lists and their dues accruals are restarted.

As for members whose membership has been suspended because their address and status information could not be determined, for those who do not notify their address and status information within two years from the beginning of the year following the suspension decision, a notification is made to the relevant Trade Registry Directorate for action to be taken within the framework of the Turkish Commercial Code and the provisions of the Trade Registry Regulation put into force by Council of Ministers Decision dated 19/12/2012 and numbered 2012/4093. As of the first day of the month following this notification, the Chamber records of the said members are deemed deleted.

In this context; if our members whose membership has been suspended as of 2026 because their address and status information could not be determined and whose Chamber records are in the process of deletion update their information by 31.01.2026 at the latest, their memberships will be reinstated from suspension on the grounds of address and status.

Kind regards,
Elazığ  Chamber of Commerce and Industry