According to information received from the T.C. Ministry of Economy, a new practice has been initiated stating that all mandatory support and expenditure documents required for applications for State Aids for Exports, as well as all kinds of information and documents requested by the Exporters' Union General Secretariat (İBGS)/Ministry, will be submitted to the KEP address of the İBGS/Ministry, which is the application authority, via the Registered Electronic Mail (KEP) address of the applicant.
According to the aforementioned practice; it has been made mandatory that every application submitted to İBGS/Ministry via KEP address must be presented with a signature circular, each of the documents included in the application must be signed with an electronic signature created using a Qualified Electronic Certificate (NES) in accordance with the standards of the 5070 numbered “Electronic Signature Law” by the person/persons authorized to represent and bind the applicant, and the extensions of electronically signed documents must be .pdf or .pdf.imz. It has also been announced that applications not meeting these criteria will not be evaluated as of 01.04.2018.
In this context, all state aid support applications within the scope of the attached table, for which our Union is the application authority, must be sent from your company's KEP address to the address as e-signed documents in accordance with the criteria explained above, and as of 01.04.2018, support applications that do not comply with these criteria and are made with printed documents will not be accepted.
Therefore, as of 01.04.2018, support applications made with printed documents will not be accepted and will be considered null and void. To prevent any negative consequences such as your company being unable to benefit from incentives due to applications not being made within the periods specified in the relevant legislation, it is of great importance that your company completes all necessary technical infrastructure, such as e-signed document creation applications, to enable your applications to be made electronically via your KEP address, no later than 01.04.2018, the date when the practice becomes mandatory.
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